June 2010
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What Programming Language Should I Learn?
This was the question a colleague asked me today. It suprised me, even though an urban myth in the non-IT community is that every “techie” person can or likes to write software. So when the question was asked of me, the first thing I did was ask more questions:
Why do you want to learn to program? To go into the profession? To add it to your resume? A quest for enlightenment? (The...
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WatchMy notes from this Leo Laporte interview from Mashable
Two pre-requisites for popular Internet media websites
Have great content
Make it easy to access
We’ve trained our audience to sit down and shut up
TWIT/Leo trains them to stand up and be heard
People prefer to be active participants in the content!
Leo’s foundation of popularity in Internet-media was...
September 2009
17 posts
Pomodoro Technique - A Tortoise and the Hare... →
The analogy is quite fitting, and may be true for many cases, however the analogy breaks down when one thinks of a development as a sprint, not a marathon, which a hare definitely has the advantage over the tortoise since there is no mid-way mark of time to ‘pause and become idle’ as may often be the case with short-term fixed time/fixed price projects.
Extending this analogy’s...
Mike Hadlow on the Buy vs Build debate for... →
I’ve met Mike Hadlow at past Open Spaces Coding Day events, and he’s a really intelligent guy, and I find this post very timely, in light of a recent TTLUG Meet’n’Greet discussion I had with a fellow developer attending.
In my case, the discussion field was around the Trinidad life insurance industry, and the technology in question was bought quite a while ago, written in...
Re-Designing Your Business Culture →
Having just moved back to Trinidad, I’m currently faced with some hard questions not just about what sort of work I’d like to do here but also with whom I’d like to do it with.
I’m a strong believer in the idea that no matter the technology or market size or partnerships existing, if a business does not have the right people with the right corporate culture encouraged and...
How To Reset Your WordPress Admin password →
In debugging a WordPress MU installation error, I had need to reset my admin password manually. Didn’t solve the problem I had with the login page, but it is still a good hacker’s reference in cases where you need to fix a forgotten admin password in a Wordpress or Wordpress MU installation.
The SQL syntax itself also demonstrates a nice feature of SQL for MySQL, the MD5() function,...
Article: Rejected By Apple, iPhone Developers Go... →
I’ve kept away from jailbreaking my iPhone for more than a year now. However, from simple restrictions, like not being able to use my own custom built ringtones, to more complicated issues, like not being able to use my Trinidad carrier’s SIM card in my iPhone while there, I always felt like I was being restricted from accessing the full power of my device.
This really became quite...
Google App Status →
Given today’s outage of GMail, I think it’s good to keep this site bookmarked for cases in future of gremlins popping up with my Google Apps usage.
Ayende Blog Post on "Your Domain Model isn’t in... →
This was referenced while going through Part 2 of the How To on Using The N* Stack, and while it does in turn reference several other articles which are deep and necessary to read to fully understand the context of Ayende’s post, I’m finding it very much worth the effort of doing such for getting a sense of why the N*stack is such a powerful template to follow.
August 2009
4 posts
TTCS Software Freedom Day Activities Schedule For...
This is a *free* series of events that is being put on voluntarily, and mostly at the organisers’ expense, i.e. the good folks at the TTCS (Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society), so it’d be great if folks in Trinidad could pass through and show some support for a local effort to educate the wider community on technology (and in this case specifically free software).
At the very...
Deezer - a possible Spotify killer? →
With this free music service, a web interface is a definite plus for me, as there’s nothing to download, so I don’t need to worry about if I am in Windows or Linux, a big one-over on Spotify.
It relies on Flash to provide its interface features, which makes things stay almost as slick as the Spotify application.
The music searches I did were just as rich as Spotify’s listings,...
WatchMy good friend Ben Hall did a presentation recently on IronRuby, and I’d highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning a little more about reasons why you should invest some time in grokking yet another “ported-to-Microsoft-dot-Net” programming language.
How to: Using the N* stack Part 1 →
I’m already familiar with ASP.Net MVC so this looks tempting to help add to my knowledge of this and also add to my knowledge of ORM usage in good reusable software designs. This article uses NHibernate and FluentNHibernate to do this bit, and I hope this plus some research into Entity Framework a little bit later will give me some better insights into how it all fits together.