These are my links for April 23rd through May 8th:
Python Stuff -
Zappos.com Takes Twitter By Storm, Hosts San Francisco Party | -
RN&R > Local Stories > Surfing without > 04.24.08 - I’m quoted twice. Once as director of business development and the other time as a programmer. I like both titles!
Alert Thingy 1.3 [...]
Tags: Blog, career, Development, Mac, marketing2.0, network, neutrality, News, osx, productivity, Programming, Python, reference, Reno, Skiing, Social, Software, tools, Tweets
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
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
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
Even though I am a Mac fan and love me my video podcasts, I have been hesitant to want an AppleTV. Why should I? I have a Windows XP Media Center as my primary DVR serving up recorded shows to my Xbox 360 connected to the living room TV. Besides for the noise the 360 [...]
Tags: Apple, Review, Software, Uncategorized
I’m having a wierd issue with TextMate’s blogging bundle. When I add categories by typing cat and hitting tab, I am prompted to select the blog. No matter which of the five I choose from, after I hit OK, I get prompted a second time. On the second time, after hitting OK, I get the [...]
Tags: Blogging, Software, Uncategorized
There is a lot of hype about Microsoft’s recent announcement of Silverlight. I love that it’s completely cross platform and can be used with any programming language. From my understanding, you are basically delivering small applications that are run client side. Since these are applications, and not server side scripts, you can do more powerful [...]
I downloaded and installed Mozy yesterday. Mozy gives users 2GB of storage to backup their files for free. You can upgrade to the unlimited version of Mozy for $4.95 per month. I really like the application and the features of it. It is a full service backup tool.
However, Amazon offers online storage as part of [...]
Tags: Internet, Review, Software
Thanks to Steve at the Utah Tech Spotlight, I am now backing up critical files on my Mac using Mozy. Steve did a Spotlight event with Josh Coates, founder and CEO. They also recorded a podcast.
Setup was a breeze. The install was via a pkg install which was effortless and they even included an uninstall [...]
After spending some time evaluating content management software and blogging software, I wanted to get back to roots and do some actual programming. I’ve had an idea for a web 2.0 applications for awhile and want to use it as an excuse to learn Ruby on Rails. I listened to the Inside the [...]
Tags: Ruby on Rails, Software, Uncategorized, Web
