Author Archives: Daniel Roop

2nd Player Revived

Michael, Bucky and I have cranked out another 2nd Player Episode. We cover where we have been, and plans we have for the site and podcast. We are not sure if we are going to stick with the bi-weekly schedule … Continue reading

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New Layout and Great T-Shirt

For some reason, I decided to upgrade WordPress to 2.3.3 tonight. In the process I decided my layout was a little dated, so I updated that too. As an added bonus, the RSS Widget began working, I guess it didn’t … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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