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Entries from April 2008
Twitter Changes Everything - Even Earthquakes
April 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Earthquake, Tweets
EverNote is Pretty Impressive
April 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
I was introduced to EverNote by my friend Colin. He asked if anyone was interested in a beta invite…mmmmmm, beta invite. I quickly said yes - of course this was via Twitter. Upon first inspection of EverNote, I thought, “great, another scrapbooking application to take notes and place images.” I was ready to pass, but [...]
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 3rd through April 22nd
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
These are my links for April 3rd through April 22nd:
Coding time: Subversion visually explained in 30 sec - Nice little visual representation
The Python Challenge -
Microsoft Vista Code - Not very nice but funny.
You Use It Every Day. But Can You Make It Cook? - New York Times -
Dr. Dobb’s | Identifying Top Developers [...]
Tags: code, cooking, cool, fun, Funny, Games, geek, hiring, Internet, interviewing, management, microwave, Programming, puzzle, Python, reference, Software, subversion, svn, tips, tutorial, vista
Dr Amy Kenzer on the Local Phoenix News
April 21st, 2008 · No Comments
I’m in there twice…both times holding a beer.
Tags: Amy Kenzer, Autism, CARD, Center for Autism, News, Phoenix, TV
Who Wins with the Google App Engine?
April 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments
In case you haven’t opened a web browser today, Google released a new platform to allow developers to quickly and easily deploy web applications leveraging Googles infrastructure as the back end. The advantages to the developer is they don’t have to worry about the very complicated system architecture issues that usually require a brilliant IT [...]
Tags: Apps, Google, Software, Uncategorized, Web
Your Daddy’s Development Model Sucks!
April 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
The waterfall software development model is the traditional process used by developers to create software - I include web application development into the category of software. It’s been around as an accepted methodology since the 70’s. It basically consists of:
Requirements Gathering
Design Phase
Implementation Phase
Verification Phase
Maintenance Phase
Presumably at each phase of the project, there are sign offs [...]
Tags: Agile, Development, Internet, Iterative, Software, Waterfall
My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 14th through April 2nd
April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
These are my links for February 14th through April 2nd:
FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin - Development on a Shoestring -
Fold-Ins, Past and Present - The New York Times -
Google Code for Educators -
Ryan Jerz :: Reno Blogger, Reno Blog >> The Terri Patraw Experience: the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the [...]
Tags: ajax, Blog, Blogging, code, Contest, cool, culture, Disney, DVD, Einsteins, friendfeed, Giveaway, Google, humor, interactive, Internet, Little, magazine, plugins, Programming, Reno, tutorial, tutorials, Uncategorized, Wordpress
The Zend Framework
April 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments
I’ve reviewed a few programming frameworks on this site: Ruby on Rails, Django and CakePHP. I think learning each one has made me pretty adept at quickly picking up a new framework and trying it out. So, when our development team decided they were standardizing on Zend, I thought I should put it to the Kenzer [...]
Tags: CakePHP, Django, Frameworks, Internet, PHP, Programming, Rails, RoR, Ruby, Zend