Development Notes, News and Ramblings
Someone recently pointed out to me that there are well over 100 different AJAX Frameworks floating around the Internet at the moment. Of course AJAX has been whole-heartedly adopted by the Web 2.0 crowd – rightly so I must say. Some of the folks from the “everything other than MS” camp are a bit chagrined […]
The dark side of declarative data binding as explained by Jean Paul Boodhoo – nice way to summarize why that application junk food is not good for you.
Rally, a java/jsp based agile project management tool.
Talking about SOA and agile development in the same breath may seem like comparing apples and oranges, says Gregor […]
Today I’ve decided to write one of those long-winded Joel Spolsky type posts. Complete with analogies and plenty of links. I doubt it will as entertaining as one of his…. but here it goes.
It is said that in 1915 the revolutionary Leon Trotzki visited a family friend in Chicago. That family friend persuaded Trotzki […]
Seriously folks. I downloaded the “Next Generation Data Access” Whitepaper from Microsoft over the weekend just to see what’s potentially coming in ADO.NET 3.0. You know MS has to mess with its data access technology every couple of years – right? It’s part of the corporate charter somewhere. “Thou shalt remodel thy data access stucture as often as possible”. After […]
Via Jason Haley – WebServiceStudio, a small utility program that can be used to test web services interactively. Might be fun to try out.
Poor Man’s Camtasia . Yes Software produces a screenshot animation tool that costs only $50..00 and can be used to produce software demo’s and training snippets.
AJAX and the market saturation of […]
Ok I’m being a little dramatic. Nonetheless Blinq is a lot of fun. In case you haven’t kept up, in the past few weeks/months MS has been posting CTP versions of some of its next generation data access technology. And yes, I guarantee a lot off people will be confused by all the LINQ related […]
I was looking at log4net and came across a couple interesing links. Logging is all good and well but in an ideal situation I like reviewing the logs generated by the various systems I manage. Normally that means writing a web app to do so. Well – in the case of log4net someone already has […]
Easy to say in this day and age when the instant gratification of web applications generates hordes of investors, managers and stake holders who approach a software project in the same manner that a crack addict approaches his pipe. Strong words I know, but hear me out.
I have a friend who literally saw a […]
This post should be under the grouping of “useless weekend reading “ If I had such a grouping….
Paris Hilton is famous for….. nothing. Seriously. As I understand it she didn’t even go to college. Any celebrity event of any note on either coast is sure to draw Hilton and her entourage. She is opportunistic […]
You know, it crossed my mind that contrary to some blogging etiquette established by Dave Winer’s Radio (I think), I am actually giving credit to some sites where I find material before having the link to the material itself. Wonder if I should change that or be rebellious in my own goofy way…
Mike Gunderloy […]
Yesterday I spoke with a former team member of mine. This gentleman left my employ to work for a consulting outfit that was located 10 minutes from his home. Considering Los Angeles traffic, who could blame him! In the intervening 2 years we spoke here and there occassionally – usually I was trying to recruit […]
I should preface that several of these items are also found on Mike Gunderloy’s site. I frequently find items only to see them mentioned by Mike. I wonder how he does it…..
Ben Tiedt has a interesting Page Weight Calculator measuring white space, images, scripts you name it.
Am I the last person to have come […]
Picture yourself at one of your earliest driving lessons. Maybe you have had some experience puttering around the neighborhood with your parents or maybe you’ve had a lesson or two with an instructor. As you approach the car for your next lesson, your teacher insists on giving you a physics / chemistry presentation, describing the […]
Vertigo has a description of setting up Subversion on Windows. With screenshots. It warms my heart to see this post from such a big MS shop. (Instead of Sourcesafe)
Along the same lines I think I’ve pinged this product before – here is a post dealing with setting up TRAC, which is an open source […]