Archive for December, 2006
Routine changes from 2006
It’s time for the compulsory end of the year post about everything that changed in my life. Instead of going too in depth on that front, I’d like to comment on what I think I’ve done this year to make me a better developer. I’d think of it as advice I’d love to have received [...]
Model Glue Unity Source Examples
Model Glue Unity examples have been few and far between, mainly because it’s still in it’s first beta phase. It’s actively being changed, with Joe hinting at an early 2007 release for beta 2, and it’s recent Divorce from Reactor, but hard time finding code. There are at least two projects over at RiaForge using [...]
One more new member of 9Rules
About a year ago I was infatuated with Ruby on Rails, the Prototype Javascript library and just about any other cool css/js hot topics. I was reading everything I could get my hands on that was in the beginner to intermediate range. There was only one Rails book out at that time, Agile Development with [...]
If you needed another reason to use jQuery, it’s here
Here at home with personal projects I haven’t yet reached the javascript stage of development on any projects I’m working on. So far it’s just been prototyping and interface design, so I’ve been able to site back and read up on Javascript libraries. Lucky I did because the end all reason to use jQuery in [...]
Coldfusion OpenID Consumer Actionpack for ModelGlue
For those of you who haven’t been listening, OpenID seems to be hitting a tipping point lately — with the developer/tech savvy crowd that is. ClaimID reported 10,000 users a month ago, OpenID posts on Digg have hit the homepage three times in the last week too! Once for a screencast showing some openID logins, [...]
MicroID, the coolest technology from 2006 you’ve never heard of
Well, I hadn’t heard of it at least. Identity management hasn’t come into my field of vision until recently, which probably explains my recent obsession with OpenID and even more recently MicroID. If you think of OpenID as a unique way of claiming your identity (like an email address does, but with URLs), MicroID [...]
Google Campus Videos
If you’re interested in watching some very interesting presentations on a variety of subjects, check out the engEDU videos on Google Video. These are speakers who were sponsored to come to Google and speak about what they know best. There are a lot of experts in their fields, such as one on Mondrian by [...]
Add OpenID to your blog
One of the biggest gripes I’ve had with OpenID turned out to be based on completely false information. If you’re not familiar with OpenID, it’s a distributed authentication system based on trust where a user can be identified as the owner of a URL. This is done by authenticating at a central location, then [...]
Reading List
Lately I’ve been negligent to my web projects in exchange for spending time reading. Unfortunately the distractions of blogs, digg, email and daily life have made this a slower process than I initially planned, but understanding how much time is spent on these things is the first step towards changing it. A while ago I [...]
Aardvark’d - 12 Weeks with Geeks
What do Aardvark’s have to do with technology? Well that’s a question you’d have to ask Joel Spolsky, but it’s the codename for summer internship project from 2005 at Fogcreek.com where a team of college interns create a real world project from start to finish. What’s a little different about this internship is that it [...]
