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Author Archives: Daniel Roop
My First Bookmarklet for TallyHoh
One of the things Tyler and I discussed doing to make the user experience with TallyHoh a little better, was to create a bookmarklet. I had never done this before so I did a little research to see what was … Continue reading
Tally, Tally, TallyHoh HOH!!!! …The Social RSS Reader
You have to read the title as if your are Lion-O from ThunderCats. You remember…”Thunder, Thunder, ThunderCats…HO!!!!!”. The new product that Tyler and I are pushing out has nothing to do with ThunderCats, that is unless you subscribe to a … Continue reading
Basic Buildr Tutorial
About a week ago now someone commented on my Buildr review post about a possible tutorial on how to use Buildr. I thought about writing something up, but then I remember that I had purchased the MacHeist Bundle a few … Continue reading
The JVM is not Java
Is this another rant?….Yes. I apologize for all the rants lately, but hopefully there is some educational value woven throughout my posts, and besides I promised this one. Lets start with a history lesson… In the beginning there was assembly, … Continue reading
Posted in development, languages, theory
Tagged actionscript, dynamic, groovy, java, jee, jruby, jvm, python, ruby
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FlexUnit Presentation at Adogo
Just a quick reminder, to the millions of two readers of my blog, that I am going to be speaking at the Adogo on March 4, 2008. The talk will be on FlexUnit and how to use it. I will … Continue reading
The tools we use
A few months ago I made an observation about the software development profession that I simply brushed off as unimportant. Now I still feel it is equally unimportant, but in the spirit of Obi Fernadez’s talk at acts_as_conference I figured … Continue reading
acts_as_conference
This past weekend I had the pleasure to attend a local conference, acts_as_conference. The conference was described as an event that was focused on Ruby on Rails, but it seemed to be much more focused on Ruby, with Rails in … Continue reading
Java is not Statically Typed (right now)
What?!?1?!/!? That is right, I said it Java is not statically typed and by proxy is not safer than dynamic languages. Zealots HALT! We can fix this, and I intend to add some gas to the fire that people like … Continue reading
Posted in development, languages, programming, rant, software, theory
Tagged coldfusion, dynamic, framework, hibernate, java, perl, python, ruby, spring, static
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Roop Says What?!
Roop said not a whole lot lately. So consider this my apologize to my literally 10s of loyal readers, and the kickoff for return to blogging. So before I give you any goodness I have a little house cleaning to … Continue reading
Oracle Using JRuby
In case you didn’t hear this a couple weeks ago, Oracle published their first JRuby on Rails application as a top level domain on oralce. The application is called Mix, and although I am not exactly sure what it does, … Continue reading