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I'm hearing some people think: Ok cool that Ruby is happening and all that but we are a DotNet Community site. Very true, but there are quite a few links to the DotNet world going on and developing at quite a nice speed. The bridges available now are: http://rubydotnet.sourceforge.net/ ( - 2003 ) http...
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Ruby's star is rising fast at the moment. It's star is rising fast it even has the thought leadership at the moment according to Don Box. IDE support is rising for it as well in the form of free editors and paid editors alike. RadRails is going strong in the Eclipse camp, this isn't really a Ruby perse...
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Last Sunday, May 7, 2005, dutch broadcaster VPRO showed a documentary on Google . It featured interviews with Vint Cerf , who worked on ArpaNet, and the people behind Google Earth and the translation stuff. Will Google be able to build the new library of Alexandria, or is it a Big Brother company. You...
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Ok, last one before getting back to some serious posts :) http://www.subservientprogrammer.com/main.aspx This one features a programmer :) So I should be wel underway to serious postings once again.
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Microsoft says that, from now on, ActiveX control activation will require that, "when a web page uses the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements to load an ActiveX control, the control's user interface is blocked until the user activates it. If a page uses these elements to load multiple controls, each...
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This post has nothing to do with software development, but everything with Microsoft and digital photography. So I'm posting it anyway. I'm very happy with the digital camera I bought some months ago, just checkout the image below. At home, I use one PC for storing my photographs, and another for editing...
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When your on Windows xp Home Edition you can't easily host websites with IIS. There are some alternatives the most well known is the cassini webserver, this has been enhanced a bit by various party's a good example of this is: xNetserver which is a VB.Net port of Cassini with a lot of extra's built in...
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With the birth of my daughter Lisa three weeks ago, my wife and I thought it was time to buy a new digital camera. Our choice was the new Konica Minolta Dynax 5D , because we already owned 2 Minolta SLR camera's and the prospect of using our existing lenses was very appealing. And we weren't disappointed...
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One of the big things in stopping people from adapting Ruby on Rails is it's lack of a good editor. Now it seems that this is a thing of the past. Some people have made it possible to make Dreamweaver mx 2004 into a good Ruby on Rails editor. The howto for rhtml files . The howto for intellisence on...
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Today is another fine day to read up on some database knowledge: A wikipedia article examining differences between the big databases. and an article about the different sql dialects
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The project I'm working on at this moment involves writing a number of webservices. Not that difficult using .Net as we all know. But I came accross something I cannot quite explain while looking at the information shown for each method when you select the View in Browser option on the ASMX file. Let...
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Interesting development going on currently surrounding MySql every ones favorite sql 92 / ACID incompliant database. MySql AB has recently transfered the license of MySql from LPGL to PGL. For those not so well informed in what the difference is: "using the Library GPL permits use of the library...
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I saw a good definition of Web 2.0 today through Curt Hibbs blog, from O'Reilly: Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that...
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Usually Joelonsoftware.com produces some interesting points of conversation around the blogospere. His latest posting is a really good (IMHO) post about setting priorities in a project. One of the good things in having a time based schedule and not a feature based schedule is that you can usually drop...
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In this post, I want to share my experiences with metrics in software development, and more specifically with DevMetrics 2.0 by Anticipating Minds . Metrics are a valuable tool when I need to inspect and/or refactor code. I've blogged about using DevMetrics before and was reminded about this when Rene...