Development Notes, News and Ramblings
One of the ice-breaker questions I ask in programmer interviews is “ What technical books are you currently reading? “ That question sometimes leads into a conversation about the candidate’s bookshelf at home and what sort of material he / she loves to read. Its a nice way to make the candidate comfortable and less self-conscious […]
Did I mention that Google Calendar prints out in PDF format? Now thats pretty cool.
Robert McLaws discusses how to get an image to show up in the Atlas panel toolbar
Michael Kay, probably the foremost authority on XSLT discusses the differences between XSLT and XQuery
Greg Duncan shows the Easter Bunny hard at work … yes […]
I had one of those little “how cool is that” moments today. I’m testing Komodo 3.5 as a possible IDE for Ruby. After downloading the personal eval, ActiveState software sent a link to an exe file that contained the trial license. The instructions were to download the file and to run it in a console […]
I just don’t have the patience to figure out certain things in a new OS - like installing and uninstalling software. After a couple of days with the very nice but somewhat lightweight Kubuntu I moved on the SUSE Linux 10.0
OpenSuse is free just like Kubuntu but is a much more mature environment. As […]
I just figured out how to remote desktop from my Kubuntu machine into Win XP. The performance is ridiculous. I almost think its a better connection than Win to Win. There are occassional small hiccups, but I’m perfectly willing to overlook them in face of all the other goodness that one gets for free.
So […]
This post comes to you via Konquerer - the KDE browser in Kubuntu which in and of itself is a very nice desktop version of Ubuntu - a cool Linuz distro out of Great Britain.
In addition this post originates on a machine that I had thougth was completely useless and dead. Its the AMD […]
Walter Martinez was a poet, a dreamer and the original publisher of Venice Magazine. I knew him about 20 years ago. As a matter of fact, I took part in the charter meeting where we discussed Walter’s vision for Venice mag in as mall second floor office on Beethoven Street and Venice Blvd . I […]
Scott Guthrie posted a note that the web application project is at release candidate stage.
Fabrice has this cool macro to attach to a running web server process for debugging.
Bill Gates describes how he works. He gets 100 emails a day… I get about 50–75.
NCover, the open source code coverage tool, has an update […]
Miguel de Icaza discusses the latest developments in Mono. It scares me just a little that he uses words like “ we had to harden it to run on the server”. What the heck was it before? All the examples I’ve ever seen touted it as a straight up Win .NET replacement. So whats that […]
Remember the jingle during Michael Jordan’s days? “I wanna be like Mike..” Well as many links as I’ve been posting I think I wanna be like Mike Gunderloy
Dr. Peter has an article that delves into caching.
Tim Bednar uses FireFox and some extensions to edit css live within the browser – rock on ! […]
We recently bought Worldwinner.com , our biggest competitor. As a result the combined companies of Fun Technologies have the market on casual skilled games cornered. King.com is a trailing second place company at this point.
If there is one thing I have learned in the past 13 years, it is that sales drive a business. Period. […]
The Pragmatic Programmers recently published “The Best Of Ruby Quiz”. Its an interesting concept. The idea is to take certain programming puzzles and challenges and then solve them using Ruby. All in all there are 25 of them. It really is a labor of love because one has to be in love with the language […]
My employer, SkillJam Technologies Inc. is owned by a small holding company. Fun Technologies. That company is based in Toronto and consists of two gentlemen and support staff. Recently we received a $50M cash investment from John Malone’s Liberty Inc. Whats a holding company to do? Spend it! So we bought our biggest competitor - […]
By the way, I now know why postal workers go “postal” and shoot everything in site. I went to my post office and knocked on a door that held a sign reading “All mail will be deposited before 10AM – The Station Manager”. After lots of knocking the door opened. The postal worker facing me […]
A fast serializer for remoting purposes on CodeProject
A short discussion about human nature and our fascination for all the newest and latest technologies. Is Java not cool anymore?
An introduction to Delegates
An indepth examination of the ObjectDataSource Part 1 and Part 2
Scott Guthries list of coming attractions. I’m interested in the CSS Control Adapters. […]
Its spring break so my wife and I decided to show our daughter around New York. What fun! From the Empire State Building to Ellis Island / Statue of Liberty and from The Rock Center to Dylan’s Candy Bar. We even saw the musical Rent in third row seats. Fantastic. When I returned home I […]
Everybody talks about it, but the only person I know who does it is Phil. On the opposite end of the spectrum is my buddy Dan, who firmly believes that writing tests is a waste. Me? I’m much too fashion conscious not to be enamoured by TDD for at least a little while. I’ve worked […]