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 [...]
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
[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.
[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.
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