Connecting ideas to code
Those guys over at 37signals have done it again and given us a nice shiny present for Christmas: Rails 2.0! Head on over to the Ruby On Rails weblog for the full details. The big feature for me is the debugger… it’s back! It’s just a gem install ruby_debug away! I’ll be covering [...]
I’ve been using Emacs as my editor of choice for many years now, long before it was officially released for DOS and Windows systems. I started with the OEmacs port after getting tired of an old editor called pmate. PMate was a TECO derivative that had four buffers but only one was backed by a [...]
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The three R’s for the new millennium. It’s the age of the unfinished project as fads come and go. Here, it’s no different. My interests are drifting towards the web and internet programming in general rather than desktop computing as they have been for so long. This blog has been neglected for quite some time. [...]
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One of the features present in VisEmacs.NET is that a user can edit their preferences right from the IDE’s “Options” dialog. In DevStudio, the user accessed the preferences from a command button on the toolbar; all that button did was open a normal dialog hosted by VisEmacs — nothing special there. Alas, VisualStudio is a [...]
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After yet another 5-day outage at my webhost it became very apparent that I needed a new home. After a few days of picking through all the very-much-alike promise-the-world-for-cheap hosting plans, I chose site5 for their package and their reputation. So far so good. Both the main site and this blog have been successfully migrated [...]
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Feature Branches
Martin Fowler has a good article on cherry picking features to compose a release. Check it out so that the next time your manager wants to pick and choose what to include in a release you’re ready with why it’s not that easy1 (0)
Finding style as an engineer
Very interesting article over at Stephano’s blog. Worth a read, and then another. Packed with links to useful tools too. (0)
Fixing bugs
Brad at 30sleeps writes about Death by a Thousand Service Packs. Well said, Brad and let us know what your itch is. (0)
Excellent paper on HTTP Sessions
Just finished reading a whitepaper on Web Based Session Management, worth a read. It lists the advantages and disadvantages of the three main forms of session management and common attacks.
Go forth and read! (0)
Stretchy Designs
If you’re afraid of using em-based layouts, or just haven’t got around to using them in your designs, head on over to Jon Tan’s blog and read his great article, The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS . He does a great job of demonstrating how easy it is to create an elastic layout in terms even engineers can understand. (1)
Is Google Evil? Here's Proof!
Many people wonder if Google is evil, despite their motto. But I have discovered proof that Google is Evil. See for yourself!
What's a Snow Flake?
There are times when I want to make a quick point without having to write an essay on the topic. Apparently there’s a whole meme of a blog within a blog, aka a sideblog or “asides”. I found a nice plugin that lets me do the same thing. I needed a name for this feature and since it’s just a little piece of Snowmoon Software, that “Snow Flake” would be a good name. Like it? Hate it? Leave a comment! (0)
