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I have been smitten with Ruby for some time, but haven’t had a chance to really use it in a project. Until recently that is.  When the opportunity arose to hire a couple of QA people with coding skills, I promptly introduced them them Ruby and Watir. Some time later one of the two gentleman produced […]

This is scary. Even a quick Google survey shows that keyloggers are difficult to defeat,
link here

THis looks promising for companies that think Cognos and Brio are over-kill. $499.00 per seat.
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Ansel Adams in a box. OK maybe not quite. It does take some experience and a good eye to manually tweak the output of this app. However, the principle of it is similar to Adam’s Zone System which he developed over 60 years ago to map the bigger range of tonal perception of the human […]

Larry O’Brien continues the discussion about Programmers as Commodities. (See link below).
Its spooky how much his experience mirrors my own. I have taken over projects that were goofed up by larger consulting companies. And these were local Los Angeles companies. Actually – and this is funny – in one case the company that did […]

I have to feel my way back into blogging after a wonderful vacation. So it will be a little choppy for a while I suppose. Gibson Research – SpinRite etc. – has put out a css menu thats been getting a lot of play.
Pure-CSS Menu Demo.

We just got back from a much needed vacation at our favorite hotel in Lahaina (Maui). The Plantation Inn only has 20 rooms and therefore is never as crowded as the big hotels. My wife discovered it 15 years ago for our honeymoon and we’ve been going ever since  
The hotel itself is located about […]