Archive for October, 2004

Kryptonite and Why Companies need Blogs
I agree. If you’re in a (commodity? I’m not a biker) market like Kryptonite, I don’t think you can afford to limit your corporate presence.
One mistake combined with a slowness to react and take responsiblity could seriously hurt a company. If I was a biker, [...]

Neotonic ClearSilver
Playing with Bloglines led me to ClearSilver. Clearsilver is a fast, powerful, and language-neutral HTML template system. In both static content sites
and dynamic HTML applications, it provides a separation between presentation code and application logic which makes working with your project easier.
I haven’t played with Clearsilver yet but there does appear to be some [...]

On a whim tonight I decided to investigate Bloglines.
Background:
I read blogs in two locations, work and home. In a perfect world, I’d like the ability to synchronize my read lists between each site. It’s a heterogeneo
us environment with linux on one side and windows on the other.
By using bloglines i’ve been [...]

My copy of Ted’s Effective Enterprise Java arrived today and I’ve spent a few minutes browsing some of the tips.
I’m looking forward to both using it as a day-to-day reference and eventually reading it cover to cover. From what I’ve read it appears well written with
enough examples sprinkled in to keep things [...]

I read an interesting article by Dave Astels the other day titled “Why Your Code Sucks”
In it, Dave discusses numerous (6) reasons why, to put it bluntly, your code may suck.
One interesting point that is brought up, and confirmed by Steve McConnell (whose Code Complete 2ed sits beside me half read), is that code should [...]




  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...

  • An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...

  • Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...