I’m not sure if anyone reads this regularly, but with that uptick in people stopping by I thought I would wish everyone a great holiday season just in case they do! I switched the theme for the site because I was running out of tab space at the top and I will be putting up [...]
Categories: uncategorized
I work as a .NET consultant in New York, most often with ASP.NET and SharePoint so the frustration expressed here comes directly from experience. Outside of work I like to dabble with lots of other neat tools an one thing I’ve really gotten used to in web development is NOT having to compile when I make simple changes to my app. PHP, Python, and Ruby all make this very easy. And if your project is pretty small, using ASP.NET doesn’t add too much over head. But that doesn’t last for long
Categories: .net,microsoft,webdev
Tagged: C# ASP.NET
[update]: Some clarification (in it’s favor!) on Mnesia’s limitations thanks to commenter Gleb Peregud
“The Cloud”. Infrastructure as a resource. Whether or not you’ve bought into the hype (or HiPE as you prefer :D ) some of the largest software/IT companies in the world are throwing piles of cash at this idea of a hardware-service. But, for the purposes of new web applications that are looking to take advantage of hardware scaling to meet demand, there’s a lot of work to be done. For a quick roundup on some of the issues facing web applications with the EC2 platform you can check out Tony Arcieri’s Post on Rails with EC2. Just as Tony Points out in his article, Erlang has a lot of tools ready made for these demands, and, with the added side benefit of proven stability/scalability in intense environments, it’s certainly worthy of some consideration for your next cloud ready app.
Categories: erlang,programming,webdev
Tagged: erlang cloud, erlang cloud hpc
[UPDATE]: Some really nice additions to the list here.
Since I graduated from college, I’ve sort of stuttered and started when it came to coding in my free time. I knew that I loved to problem solve, and I got great satisfaction out if that aspect of programming (its why I do it for a living), but that didn’t seem to be enough to keep me interested for more than a few weeks/months. I’d always get tired of it, and wonder how the people doing crazy things like hacking the Linux kernel kept at it. For years no less! What follows are a few observations on how to keep programming fun when you’re doing it in your free time.
Categories: programming,webdev
Tagged: open source hacking coding
Github: delicious-user-top
So if you stopped by last week you saw that I hacked together the github-repos javascript plugin for my new forum, erlanguid, to pull a users github repo information and display it in their posts. It was so easy that I got kind of plugin happy and decided to do a few more for my forum. The latest pulls the users top links for a given tag or tags from Delicious.com. Here’s how to use it!
Categories: javascript,jquery,webdev
Tagged: delicious user links javascript
This is why I love Rails:
In the commit you’ll notice that there are two files that got changed. The output for the Textile, and adding the gem to the environment.rb. Other than that all I had to do was install the gem in both dev and production, and unpack it in production.
This is certainly a short post, but I have to say that when you’ve used Rails enough to know exactly what to do in a given situation, that “todo” ends up being a very light undertaking.
Make no mistake, Rails is the framework of the future.
Categories: rubyonrails,webdev
Tagged: rails Redcloth
So, the reason I haven’t posted in a bit is that I’ve been finishing up happenings for deployment (learning capistrano), I put together a really nice presentation on SharePoint basics for my user group, and also because I’ve been putting together a new forum! [...]
Categories: erlang,erlanguid,webdev
Tagged: erlanguid erlang
