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Bookmarks for June 2nd through June 5th

by Ron Bieber on Thursday, June 18, 2009

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Teach Me Cocoa – Video Tutorials for Mac Development

March 2, 2009

New video tutorial site on Cocoa programming by Steven Degutis.

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Bookmarks for January 3rd through January 7th

January 7, 2009

Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services – "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”."
has_many :through – Agile [...]

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Bookmarks for December 23rd through January 3rd

January 3, 2009

Linux in 2009: Recession vs. GNU – "The general agreement among experts is that not only is FOSS well-equipped to face the recession of 2009, but that those who adopt it will be better off when the hard times are over."
SBC-DSL + router = dropped connections – dslreports.com – Post around DSL connection drops – [...]

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Bookmarks for November 21st

November 21, 2008

James Shore: Successful Software – "Technical debt sucks, and it's a particularly common problem for the teams I work with. Technical debt affects everything they do. It disrupts plans, kills productivity, and creates defects. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but strangely, these teams put very little effort into paying off the debt. [...]

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Bookmarks for November 18th through November 20th

November 20, 2008

The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis – O'Reilly Radar – "There is a debate brewing among data systems cognoscenti as to the best way to do data analysis at this scale. The old guard in the Enterprise IT camp tends to favor relational databases and the SQL language, while the web upstarts have rallied around [...]

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Bookmarks for November 10th through November 11th

November 11, 2008

Cutting I.T. Costs – And We Do That How? - Phurnace Software – With already limited staff and expectations on IT going up – how do you continue to cut costs? Automate.
InfoQ: Presentation: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams – "In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, [...]

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Bookmarks for November 3rd through November 4th

November 4, 2008

Prawn – prawn – "Prawn is a fast and nimble PDF generator written in pure Ruby. "
The Role of the Core Development Team in an Agile Project – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – "This excerpt from the upcoming book, Becoming Agile, discusses a necessity in ensuring corporate buy-in for Agile development: creating a collaborative [...]

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Bookmarks for October 31st

November 1, 2008

FFI for Ruby Now Available | JavaWorld's Daily Brew – "FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. FFI has been implemented in various libraries; one of them, libffi, actually serves as the core of JNA, allowing Java code to load and call arbitrary C libraries. libffi allows code to load a library by name, retrieve a [...]

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Bookmarks for October 24th

October 24, 2008

14 things to do if you are laid off from a tech job | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET – "Geeks and other tech employees are a little different from the vanilla workforce, though, so I wanted to put together a list of specific things that people in our part of [...]

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Bookmarks for October 20th

October 20, 2008

Phalanger – The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework – Home – Title says it all.
DVCS Why and How – Very good write-up explaining DVCS technology and why it is valuable.
Intro to Distributed Version Control (Illustrated) | BetterExplained – "Traditional version control helps you backup, track and synchronize files. Distributed version control makes it [...]

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Bookmarks for October 8th through October 9th

October 9, 2008

Infoworld: Open source CMSes prove well worth the price – " We look at five free offerings boasting solid Web publishing features that challenge their commercial competitors"
Panic – Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X – Mac HTML Editor recommended by collegue.
Mac GNU Privacy Guard – "Mac GNU Privacy Guard (Mac GPG [...]

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Bookmarks for September 24th through September 25th

September 25, 2008

The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time | Technologizer – "They're rarely helpful. Actually, they usually add insult to injury. But what would computing be without 'em? Herewith, a tribute to a baker's dozen of the best (or is that worst?). " – Can you guess who the winner is?
Got an idea to help the world? [...]

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Bookmarks for September 23rd

September 24, 2008

Kirix Strata: Software for Business Analysts – "Kirix Strata is a specialty browser for working with data and the web. Strata gives you the ability to connect to the vast resources on the web as well as your local data, and provides a rich environment for interacting with layers of information on many levels. [...]

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Bookmarks for September 15th through September 17th

September 17, 2008

Facebox 1.2 – "Facebox is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages.
It's simple to use and easy on the eyes. Download the tarball, view the examples, then start enjoying the curves."
Richard Wright dies at 65; founding member of Pink Floyd – Los Angeles Times – "While he lacked the [...]

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Bookmarks for September 3rd

September 3, 2008

Shalla Secure Services – "Shalla's Blacklists is a collection of URL lists grouped into several categories intended for the usage with URL filters like SquidGuard or Dansguardian. But the usage is not limited to this. Some people use the lists to include them (that is parts of them) into their Squid installation without using a [...]

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Bookmarks for August 21st through August 22nd

August 22, 2008

The LEMON Parser Generator – "The Lemon program is an LALR(1) parser generator. It takes a context free grammar and converts it into a subroutine that will parse a file using that grammar."
Git merging by example – An article giving a real life example of a git merge.
Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit [...]

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Studying Up On Ruby

December 27, 2006

Photo by rbieber
I’ve been focusing on Ruby a lot over the past 3 days (Rails specifically). What a great environment to work in!

This was taken about a month ago. I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading and experimenting with Rails and I have to say, I love it. [...]

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List of Languages I have coded in …

May 22, 2006

Tom the Architect’s latest posting details a list of languages he has coded in. I thought this would be a pretty interesting exercise, so thought I would throw one together as well:

BASIC (quite a few flavors from old school CP/M up to Windows)
xBase
DataFlex
C
C++
x86 Assembler (light, but still counting it)
Pascal (Turbo / Quick)
Unix [...]

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Charles Petzold: Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?

October 27, 2005

Charles Petzold, author of Programming Windows (the Bible of Windows programming when I was coming up) has written an article called Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?. In this very well written (and very LONG) article, Charles goes through the history of Windows programming as he sees it and explains how he feels [...]

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