Development Notes, News and Ramblings
I’m browsing through Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland’s recent book “Rails for Java Developers” , published by the Pragmatic Programmers. The mere fact that there are more and more Java centric Ruby and RoR books out there tells you something. And while my main language is C#, there are enough similarities with Java to make it interesting to read. “Rails for Java […]
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I am reading “Founders at Work” – Stories of startups early days – a collection of interviews with the founders of ArsDigita, Blogger, Marimba, 37Signals, Lycos, Flick, SixApart, PayPal and many more, written by Jessica Livingston and published by Apress.
It is part educational, part entertaining and part infuriating […]
Mike Gunderloy recently used that term on his new blog. And it struck me how appropriate this was. Programming by Search Engine – should we call it PBSE? —– is something that I myself have resorted to and also something that I’ve seen most programmers I’ve worked with do. It sort of ties together with […]
After all the hoops I jumped through, I made one last ditch effort to keep Vista from locking up and the video display from going completely bonkers ever so often – I disconnected a USB KVM Switch that the machine was using. So far so good. Its been 4 hours of trouble free operation. As […]
Anne Zelenka of RedMonk does not mince words. This is great !
“…In the hopes of boosting my productivity by using an all-in-one dashboard and start page, I reviewed four Ajax web start pages and one Flash-based start page for Web Worker Daily: Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google’s customized homepage, Protopage, and yourminis. I had a few ideas […]
I’d like to invite you to keep an eye on Dr. Tools and Mr. Hacks. Look to it for some irreverent treatment of some of the more sacred cows of our industry. For example buzz words that confuse people. The inaugural post deals with one of the more sexy topics d’jour – Inversion of Control […]
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. […]
Phil Haack has been doing some nice reading. A book called “Beyond Software Architecture“. Looks like something I need to get. At the moment I’m working on a review of “
I actually saw a reference to this on Rocky’s site, but incldued my own link here for posterity. This is a very neat concept that I am completely clueless about. Hey admission is the first step isnt it! So now I can learn. Seems like a nifty idea.
“….What if objects could move from machine […]
I enjoy good tools as much as the next guy, but when I am charged an arm and a leg for a tool - or in the case of Codesmith 3.0, the sum of $400.00, I expect everything to work. Well it didn’t. And that ticked me off. To make matters worse the customer service […]
Wow I must have been really busy that I completely missed this excellent discussion by Martin Fowler. Actually I have to thank Ben Wilson for using proper terminology which caused me to stumble across this wonderful discussion of PicoContainer and Spring.
While both are Java based implementations, their root cause is universal. I’m glad to […]
Ship It is published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf, a fairly new publisher with an interesting assortment of titles. Probably the best known being “The Prgamatic Programmer”.
The subject, as implied by the books title, is the process of shipping software on time and on budget. The book was written by two veteran programmers […]
Aside from the fact that the name of the site just kills me. Its chockful of good information. Here, for example, is a pdf that discusses different agile leadership styles needed for different team capabilities. Not sure if real world teams can be defined as cut and dry as this, but the article is definetly […]
Just a link to a bunch of webcasts available for TechEd 2005 click here
I received a free copy of a very anemic Visual Studio magazine. Leafing through it I was reminded how I used to read at least 3 different magazines on a monthly basis. I don’t anymore. As a matter of fact I used to read business related materials incessantly. Programing books, magazines, websites you name it. […]
Pierre Greborio has an example based on Martin Fowlers pattern. I like it.
When I have to propagate errors from the domain object to the presentation I usually use exceptions. All errors bubble from bottom to up and then are ready to be published to the UI (managing the catch section). The Notification pattern can […]