Picking up some Python
I have been using Ruby and various .NET languages for a long-time but the coming flood of deep architecture changes coming to Ruby on Rails 3.0 has drawn my attention to other web frameworks such as Django and the Python language.
Reworking It.
I finished reading the newly released book, Rework, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson not long after it was released and intended to give a bit of opinion about it here sooner but was distracted with other things. The book is under 300 pages but it is a pretty...
My Perfect Laptop Bag
I have to admit, I am a bit of a laptop bag junkie.? I have had pretty much every type of bag, I think I have tried them all.? Most of the bags I?ve used I can say I didn?t like for one reason or another. I don?t like backpacks...
Apple Becoming the New Microsoft?
Apple?s announcement of the iPhone OS 4.0 and the release of the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK gives a lot of new things developers should be excited about but falls short in the big picture. One such nugget of information pointed out by John Gruber in the iPhone Developer Agreement:
Hiding User Accounts on Windows 7
I recently needed to create a local user account for a project which involved using the Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics eConnect product. eConnect product uses some COM+ components and needs to have a user account during installation to properly setup the components. I decided the simple thing to do was...
Interviewed about IronRuby
I was recently interviewed by Mike Pontacooloni of SearchWinDevelopment.com for an article about IronRuby and how it may be used by developers. I was asked about IronRuby since I use both .NET, IronRuby and Ruby on Rails in my day-to-day work and Mike thought I might have some insight into...
Running Rails 2.3.x on IronRuby
There have been some interesting discussions recently on Twitter about IronRuby and Rails. The IronRuby team has been plodding along and with IronRuby 1.0 RC2 out I wanted to see if it could truly run a Rails application.
Moving Forward and the Acquisition of Expens'd
I mentioned my lofty goals for 2010 in a previous blog post. One of the goals is moving some efforts from freelancing work to products which can happen in a couple of ways; either by developing products yourself or by acquisition. Acquisition is how we are introducing the first product...
InfoQ: Scout - Extensible Server and Application Monitoring
It has certainly been a while since I published anything on InfoQ but I had the opportunity recently to talk about Scout with Andre Lewis, the co-founder of the company. The interview titled Scout ? Extensible Server and Application Monitoring went up this morning.
Ruby on Rails 3 Beta Setup Hurdle
The Ruby on Rails 3 beta was released recently and has been in development for the past year, longer if you take into account Merb.