Passion. I have come to the conclusion that, that simple word is what separates an average developer from a great developer. IQ, education, degree, books, none of that matters, these are all symptoms of passion. A passionate developer will use these tools to find answers and refine his/her craft, so they are […]
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What makes a great developer?
May 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments
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Aptana RadRails 1.0
March 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I have recently become frustrated with the Eclipse IDE. I use 3.2 to do my java development, Flex Builder to do Flex development and Aptana RadRails for Ruby and Rails stuff. This last week I almost cracked and purchased TextMate , to see what all the fuss was, but since Aptana just […]
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New Layout and Great T-Shirt
February 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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 work on the old WordPress engine for some reason.
I even took the time […]
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Tally, Tally, TallyHoh HOH!!!! …The Social RSS Reader
February 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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 ThunderCat News Feed like Thundercats The Movie.
Without further ado…
You have heard me talk […]
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The tools we use
February 14th, 2008 · No Comments
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 I would bring it up.
As I look across many different professions I see one […]
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Java is not Statically Typed (right now)
January 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments
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 Bob Lee over at crazybob.org have started.
So let me start by saying […]
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Eric Evans Presentation at JAOO
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
I was clicking through infoq this morning, and came across a presentation by Eric Evans on DDD. Eric wrote the book Domain Driven Design. I have not yet had the pleasure to read this book, but I will be sure to put up a review as soon as I get to it.
I […]
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Recording with multiple inputs into GarageBand
November 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I have found that it was a lot of work to record three seperate tracks, on three seperate computers and then sync them all up afterwards for 2nd Player. So I did some research to figure out how I could record multiple inputs into a single garage band session.
I found this article about how […]
Is Open Social, Open Friend?
November 12th, 2007 · 3 Comments
That is the question I had to ask myself when I first saw OpenSocial. Being the owner and developer of a social site to be, TallyHoh, I am very interested in the possibility of taking advantage of a central friend repository.
Tyler and I have been putting off the “friend” aspect of TallyHoh until last, […]
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Mac OS X Java
April 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment
So I got the great idea yesturday to install Coldfusion MX 7 on my Intel Mac to try out some ideas. I found out that Adobe does not currently support Coldfusion MX on the intel Mac. They do redirect you to numerous blogs that give you instructions on how to get it working […]
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