SAA complained a while back that the colours make things hard to read, and I’ve been meaning to fix them ever since. Obviously, that hasn’t happened yet, and it’s very possible I won’t really bother with it till I have time to implement some of the other things I want to do with it. Probably more [...]
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Links courtesy of Slashdot: an interview with Marissa Mayer, and an overview of Google’s successes/failures in launching new products in the last few years. This latter article also features quotes by Ms. Mayer. This is the worst interview with a Google employee I have come across so far — Ms. Mayer comes across as naive and [...]
So here’s something that’s been bugging me for a while: the ORM facility that RoR provides is highly touted, particularly with regards to schema migrations, which are basically handled automatically. Clearly, these are great features for a fast-evolving project, but do they promote a more casual attitude towards reliability in open-source projects?I ask this because [...]
Windows Live Mail Beta
22Apr06Yay, the invite for Windows Live Mail (WLM) Beta finally popped up. I knew I was in for some surprises when I couldn’t click the ‘Join Now’ button in Firefox, but nothing prepared me for what I was see… (cue circus music) Signup was as simple as visiting their webpage and agreeing to the EULA. Signing [...]
Pugs…finally!
13Apr06Yay, I’ve finally managed to start playing around with Pugs, the Perl6 interpreter of choice till Parrot is ready. Performance-wise, it’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be. There’s some really good stuff in the examples/ directory to show off Perl6 syntax. I immediately gravitated to the naive_bayesian directory, which shows a [...]
I’ve had opportunity to become quite familiar with Rational Clearcase in the last year-and-a-bit, including advanced features such as the use of metadata. And having witnessed it first-hand, I have to say that Clearcase’s power is unmatched: it’s an extremely well-considered system that will let you do almost anything you want with it. Still, power is [...]
VS.NET 2003 Find/Replace
15Feb06(This has been sitting in my Performancing extension for several weeks, so since I haven’t updated recently, might as well publish it.)I’ve just discovered that the regular expressions available through Find/Replace in VS.NET 2003 are not standard .NET/POSIX regular expressions. It seems curlies ({, }) specify tagged expressions. Unfortunately, this means one of the most [...]
Google Video
07Jan06Once more, I’m a little late to the party (after initial Google-phobia and subsequent laziness), but I’ve finally given Google Video a look. And I like it. Google’s in the perfect position to do this, given they’ve indexed everything out there already, and they’ve done a nice job making things available. Of course, there’s potential [...]
I just discovered Performancing, an extension that lets you post to your blog from right within Firefox. This solves one of my pet peeves: navigating to Typo’s admin interface to post, a journey requiring three clicks from the login page.Performancing lets you blog at any time during your surfing experience simply by hitting F8. It [...]
New theme
26Dec05Courtesy Kyle Neath, here’s Hemingway. The simplicity of the design’s what really appeals to me. Or maybe it’s the darkness. Anyhoo, it’s pretty striking. I like it enough that I’ve decided I’m going to stick with it for the foreseeable future, and that means I might actually bother to customize it a bit. Like I [...]
Web 2.0 Business Plans
18Nov05Lots of excellent commentary on Web 2.0 business plans. I’m just going to post the links here — it’s all worth reading! Web 2.0 day three: Silly business ideas Web 2.0: Land of Opportunity, or Land of Absurdity? Flock and Web 2.0: The Leaning Tower of Buzz — the title here is pure genius, BTW. There’s an excellent [...]
Business Plan Generator
18Nov05I’m almost certain this wouldn’t make a workable business, but I’ve been thinking for a while now that I should put a ‘business plan generator’ on my list of projects. It really pisses me off when I have a cool idea (typically in the shower) that I can’t wait to put on paper before I [...]
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