Month: May, 2006

Book Review: Enterprise Integration with Ruby by Maik Schmidt - Published by The Pragmatic Programmers

30 May, 2006 (17:52) | General | No comments

THIS BOOK ROCKS!
I read and review a lot of material in any given period and I’m here to tell you this book ranks among the best I’ve seen in the past 6 months. So let’s just get that right out of the way. If you have an interest in Ruby - and are not […]

Book Review - Beginning POJOs - From Novice To Professional - by Brian Sam-Bodden published by Apress

22 May, 2006 (18:22) | General | 2 comments

 
In all the hype surrounding Web 2.0 , AJAX and all the other front end changes that have been picked up by the general web developing populace it is easy to overlook some of the changes that have happened in the middle tier and back-end. Changes like the increasing prevalence of light-weight frameworks and ideas such […]

Book Review: Practical Mono by Mark Mamone - Published by Apress

21 May, 2006 (00:18) | General | 1 comment

As you may know,  Mono has been the ambitious port of the .NET CLR – for that matter most of the .NET namespaces in the framework itself– to an open source platform that can be run on Linux. I have been following this effort from a distance with a tortured fascination because it is indeed […]

The high price of gas … and some links of course

8 May, 2006 (06:34) | General | No comments

I just bought the most expensive tank of gas ever. It was $63.00 for an amount of gas that used to cost $35.00 tops. Amazing. The most expensive tank of gas of my entire life and as the news reports, prices will continue to rise into the summer.

Some Html, css and front end related […]

Book Review - Programming Sudoku - Author Wei-Meng Lee - Publisher Apress

4 May, 2006 (00:47) | General | 3 comments

 
I am not a game programmer. Its not something that interests me at all. Yet I was fascinated with Wei-Meng Lee’s book on Sudoku programming.My interest stemmed from the subject matter, Sudoku, and the way in which Wei Meng Lee structured his book.
“Programming Sudoku” covers a single game – obviously – but does so […]

Links on Sunday

1 May, 2006 (07:55) | General | No comments

Saw this in an email the other day: Why do doctors call their work “practice” ? And here are some interesting finds that I came across:

K. Scott Allen has a Windows Workflow reading list. Coincidentally, I’ve had a a long discussion with my friend Dan about the merits of this system for a web […]