The bad thing was the fact that we were sitting inside on a lovely spring day – some would say: a beautiful summer day. The good thing was the quality of the Outerthought Fireside Chat event. Although the formula of the event was new to me, I had a great time with some of the best-known [...]
Archive for the ‘Software and Development’ Category
The Bad And The Good
Posted in Content Management, Personal, Software and Development on 08/05/2008 |
I Couldn’t Have Said It Better
Posted in Software and Development on 07/05/2008 |
I couldn’t have said it better: “Good Code is Readable Code“.
Yet Another List…
Posted in Internet, Software and Development on 04/05/2008 |
Yet another list… but it can be so much fun to discover a new gem: Recommended 55 Free Online Tools. Did you know codepad.org, for example?
Another Software List
Posted in Internet, Software and Development on 26/04/2008 |
Yes, I know: it’s yet another software list. But you don’t have to look at it if you don’t want to. So here’s to Open Source Living.
Proverbs
Posted in Personal, Society, Software and Development on 25/04/2008 |
I love a good one-liner, even if it takes more than one line: Software Engineering Proverbs collected by Tom Van Vleck. Here’s one that applies not just to software engineering: “No matter what the problem is, it’s always a people problem”.
Sandbox Your App
Posted in Apple & Macintosh, Software and Development on 15/04/2008 |
Or: to protect your web surfing from the tribulations of Web 2.0 applications, use Fluid to create “virtual” apps that run in a separate application. Fluid is Mac OS X Leopard only.
Is There Application Hosting In Your Future?
Posted in Content Management, Internet, Python, Software and Development on 11/04/2008 |
Almost by accident I stumbled upon a site called Heroku. It’s not a number puzzle or a game, but an online and browser-editable Ruby On Rails platform, promising to provide you with “a full Ruby and Rails runtime environment… no limits“. So Google maybe the biggest, but not the only player in the ‘application hosting’ market, [...]
Your Google Account For OpenID
Posted in Internet, Software and Development on 09/04/2008 |
Your Google account for OpenID, that’s what one of the applications in the Google App Engine gallery provides. Nice stuff: your Google account suddenly is also your OpenID identity, and the app logs the use of that identity.
Django Anyone?
Posted in Content Management, Internet, Python, Software and Development on 09/04/2008 |
The Google App Engine looks like a strong argument to learn Python and Django, the Python framework. Now it’s true that I would like to see Google support Groovy here as well, but I’m old enough (ha!) to abstain from programming language bigotry. Just think: having the possibility to develop and deploy a web app on a [...]
The Best?
Posted in Design and Art, Software and Development on 31/03/2008 |
I’m not in a position to confirm the fact that these are ‘the best links’, but as a compilation of essential links on Adobe Flex it will do nicely: Best Adobe Flex Resources and Tutorial Sites.
Not Only The iPhone
Posted in Internet, Software and Development on 12/03/2008 |
Not only the iPhone is being discussed in this debate about code signing and software distribution. I learned that the OS on my new iMac already incorporates some of those practices… My take: I can understand, even applaud, the benefits of code signing – but code signing is NOT code distribution. I think we’re all better [...]
ColdFusion Utility For XML Handling
Posted in ColdFusion, Software and Development on 10/03/2008 |
Anuj Gakhar wrote a small but useful tool to convert an XML string (like the content of an XML file) into a ColdFusion Struct. The code runs in CFMX 6.1, 7 and 8, and is also available on Riaforge.org. I haven’t done any measurements, but I suspect that CF handles Structs much faster than XML.
More Experimentation
Posted in Software and Development on 28/02/2008 |
More experimentation – if you want to. Here’s one answer to the question: why would I want to use Groovy and Grails. And to show that he is serious about Groovy, the author of that answer continues to expain his Groovy discoveries on his blog. Experimentation is fun, indeed!
Experimentation
Posted in Apple & Macintosh, Software and Development on 27/02/2008 |
Mucking about with computers can be fun, even when it serves no real purpose. So just for the fun of it, I installed Mono and SharpDevelop on my iBook – yes, on a 500Mhz machine that is almost 7 years old. Guess what? It worked perfectly, even is SharpDevelop is a bit slow to run on such [...]
I Should Have Known
Posted in Apple & Macintosh, Software and Development on 21/02/2008 |
I should have known it was a dumb idea to try and remote control my Mac from the same machine (that’s not really remote, isn’t it?). But I was installingLogMeIn, and my impatience – I was waiting for the iBook to come to life – made me try anyway. If you want to see mouse [...]
