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…
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…
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…
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…
Is Your Development Proudly Found Elsewhere?
“Proudly Found Elsewhere” is the research and development mantra of Procter and Gamble, one of the worlds largest consumer products companies. The company boasts 7,500 scientist dedicated to R&D,…
Installing Rmagick on Windows Using Ruby 1.8.6
Rmagick tends to be tricky to install, but on windows its relatively simple, except for the fact that if you freshly installed ruby 1.8.6, ruby gems needs to be…
Is CMMI Overrated?
We are not a CMMI rated company. As a small business, we think it is more important to focus on delivering excellence for our customers and growing top and…
SAIC and the Armys Pathfinder Intelligence Application
SAIC has been a leading developer of intelligence analysis software for decades. In fact, their Pathfinder application has seen continual usage at a variety of agencies since the early…