4 Ways To Help the Government Adopt Open Source Technologies
Bob Sutor, Vice President of Open Source and Standards at IBM, issued a challenge to the open source community for 2008. One of his ten challenges to the community…
What Does Sun’s MySQL Acquisition Mean For Government IT Usage?
On January 16, Sun announced the pending purchase of MySQL AB, the company which owns the MySQL database. While MySQL is quite popular among developers, it has yet to…
In the Lab: Amplify.ActiveRecord (porting ruby to c#)
Ive been secretly working on an active record type of port as a part of the Amplify Framework. The release of the ASP.Net MVC framework along with an MVC/MVP/Rails…
Software as a Service Hasn’t Caught On Everywhere
Sramana Mitra does a great job of summarizing several blog articles and discussions about companies that have pursued software as a service (SaaS) and the Extended Enterprise (EE, or,…
XBRL As the Escape From Spreadsheet Hell?
In a previous role, I was responsible for, among other things, creating business cases to justify future expenditures as well as for budgeting for forward fiscal years. My colleagues…
LinkedIn Finally Links Into the Rest of the World
An article in this mornings Reuters reported that LinkedIn has finally decided to open up its closed system to the rest of the world by creating a developer API…
Multiple Field custom validations in Rails
I just took a spin around the bowls of ActiveRecord Validations trying to create a validator that would check if one, and only one, field of a set of…
Check out the concept of the ASP.NET MVC Framework
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx ASP.NET MVC Framework – ScottGus Blog. Looks like the rails frenzy has upped some more interesting things from Microsoft, I’ve seen posts and whispers of this since april…
Amplify.JS (pre alpha) ready to play with
http://www.codeaccessory.net/2007/11/amplifyjs-pre-alpha-ready-to-play-with.aspx If you’ve been itching to play with some javascript and visual studio 2008 (beta). I have a pre-alpha project for you to play with. The intellisense works in…
User Interaction & The `Dont Make Me Think Design Principle.
The `Dont make me think design principle comes from the concept that any user interaction should be obvious to a degree that it does not require critical thinking skills to…
Agile Californication (Agile Open Conference in California)
I’m currently sitting my temporary dungeon (hotel room) trying to verbalize and regurgitate all the things from the last 2 days before I hit town one last night before reality…
Hacking (Cool Techniques) for Visual Studio 2008 Javascript Intellisense.
So I’ve been in the lab working on a javascript work flow for Visual Studio 2008. I know you might being thinking of a work flow engine cause you’re…