Javascript Intellisense, Documentation, & Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas)
I’ve been working inside the quasi evil yet intriguing world of javascript for the last several weeks due to current projects and the web side of my BHAG project…
Charlottesville Needs More Nerds, Part Deux
Eric ran into some fellow Darden grads, Adam Healey and Charles Seilheimer yesterday at a local coffee shop because he was lured into a conversation about Ruby, Twitter, and…
Sucking in the header and footer from a remote site
How do you share a common header and footer across multiple apps? For example, you might be prototyping a new app, and want to borrow the main sites header…
Is Poker the Newest Venture Capitalist?
Some deep little part of nearly everyone I know has that inner burning desire to start up their own company. They dont know what they want to do, how…
Knowing when to shut down a project
Property law (at least, as taught to me by Elizabeth Scott) seeks to have owned property utilized at its highest value use. Thus, according to the basics of property…
Ruby on windows (textmate clone and IDEs)
Ive been plowing through a lot of ruby editors for doing rails development on a windows box. I know some would say it is a lost cause. However, I…
Getting business is not an entitlement
I just came back from the National Veterans Small Business Conference and Expo. I was really impressed at the outreach that prime contractors and government agencies showed. They are…
Showing “Sphere”it
Several of our recent projects have involved different methods of data sorting, manipulation, and visualization. An example of this is now available with the University of Virginia Librarys BlacklightDL…
Turning Waterfall Contracts into Scrum Contracts
This Monday we were fortunate to hear Dr. Jeff Sutherland give a presentation on Scrum at our monthly Neon Guild meeting. He was going to be doing some training…
Parsing Ruby for Porting
Ive recently started a research project to port a Ruby workflow engine (OpenWFEru) to Python. I thought that if I could write a basic Ruby parser I could at…
A Web 2.0 Bubble?
Reuters reported this morning that the number of contributors to many Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube and Flickr is much smaller than the number of people who come…
Upgrading to Subversion 1.4 on a Fedora Core 4 Server
Yesterday Eric asked me to upgrade our Subversion version from 1.2 to 1.4 in order to take advantage of the new XML responses needed by CruiseControl.rb. My first clue…