Working for one of my clients this afternoon, I had to figure out a reasonable way to work with Visual SourceSafe. I program on a Mac, and my only access to Windows is via a Parallels installation of Windows Vista.
That’s not really the problem, Parallels is a stunningly good piece of software, and I […]
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I was in an emergency meeting recently where the company had sold a big project, based in large part on a super-duper-solves-everything process tool. This tool, this magical tool, is to be the company’s leverage for bringing in all the facets of the project on time and under budget.
Problem is, there’s no such tool. […]
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Great article at Lesscode.org, responding to Gosling’s dismissal of scripting languages.
Usually, I ignore attacks like Gosling’s as not worth my limited time and attention. I love Python, and it really doesn’t bother me when the ignorant attack my language-of-choice. This article is better than the original by orders of magnitude, due to its […]
I’m no fan of PHP, I believe it is a terrible language which produces insecure, ugly code almost all the time, yet I use it. It powers this blog, for example, and it will be powering the online store I am about to launch. Why do I use it when there are […]
I’ve been saying for years “I spent the entire day today chasing down Java configuration errors when upgrading Resin 2 to Resin 3.
One thing I just don’t understand is why more people, especially framework designers, omit or skip logging. Django appears to, which is incredibly annoying to me. It is a complex framework, which makes all kinds of assumptions and relies on convention to infer a lot of functionality. That’s great, but being able […]
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