Yahoo to Support OpenID
Friday, January 18th, 2008The title says it all. We really need to get OpenID support into DrProject...
Archive for January, 2008
The title says it all. We really need to get OpenID support into DrProject...
We Get Requests
Thursday, January 17th, 2008As I mentioned a few days ago, we've started converting DrProject's interface to Dojo. We like the look and feel a lot, but were finding it very slow (several seconds per page, rather than half a second). Alex Russell was kind enough to explain what we were doing ...
Where My Life Goes
Thursday, January 17th, 2008I'm supposed to spend 9-10 every morning getting my programming skills back up to par. Instead, I have become a mail relay. Here's a count of messages sent on business matters (not including stuff I did for DDJ or Beautiful Code, or personal email) in the past couple of years: I ...
Structural Programming and Rational Metaprogramming
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008I keep trying to put extensible programming aside, but it just won't let me let go. (Yes, I know, the eighties want their lyrics back...) Most recently, Michael Feathers posted this piece about what he calls structural programming. As he says: A structural program (or program snippet) is ...
A Delicious Harvest
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008I've fallen out of the habit of using del.icio.us, but had occasion today to grub around through links I'd saved while I was still using it regularly. Some of them are still interesting: CoScripter CrossRef TagSea EnglishToUml (no, really) O'Reilly Code Search TimeSnapper (I'm afraid to try it out...) The Paleobiology Database (not CS, but cool) Buildix ...
Why Dreamhost Isn’t Getting My Business
Monday, January 14th, 2008I decided late last year that the time had come to host this site commercially (it currently lives on a little old machine sitting in some donated rack space in downtown Toronto). My first thought was Dreamhost, but when I tried to sign up this morning, they insisted that I ...
And Speaking of Community…
Saturday, January 12th, 2008As a follow-up to my previous post, I'd like to say "thank you" to all the people who proposed projects for my software consulting course this term. I'm sorry we weren't able to find students to work on all of them, but I'm very excited by the ones we're ...
What “Community” Actually Means
Saturday, January 12th, 2008As I was coming out of the library today, I saw a guy in a white van scrape against a car parked on a side street while trying to make a tight corner. The guy in the van didn't stop, but a passer-by went into the library, wrote down the ...
I’ve Been Amazoned
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Scroll down on this page and play the video --- I think it makes me look chunky, but Sadie says TV adds ten pounds...
Where the Puck Is, Part 5
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Imagine a world in which bookstores printed books on demand, then and there. Sure, they'd keep a couple of copies of each volume on their shelves for readers to browse, but there'd be no trucks, no warehouses, no remainders... What kind of software is it going to need? What's the ...