I have been meaning to use Wordle with some of my own writing. Wordle creates word art given a RSS feed or a text sample that is almost like a stylized cliff notes or synopsis of the document it analyzed. I was able to create the following image with the text from Code [...]

I have collected some of the most highly rated, informative, and controversial Juixe TechKnow articles and made then available as a PDF document. The collected works is entitled Code Rage 2.0: Rants of Code and Other Essays. Code Rage 2.0 is available on scribd. Comments are always [...]

Google App Engine was released to a lot of fanfare. App Engine promised easy application deployment and management. App Engine is not so much a framework as it is an infrastructure power by Google. I have been looking for a simple development and deployment solution for micro-web applications so I gave Google [...]

Even thought I am a Windows user, I am no where near a Microsoft lackey but recently I learned that Microsoft is giving away a ton of professional grade software to students. Through the Microsoft DreamSpark program, students can get access to Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Expression Studio, [...]

Just saw an interesting bit of JavaScript that allows anyone to edit the content of a web page from IE or FireFox. This is a JavaScript trick that runs on the client side and does not have any effects on the actual file on the server. With this you can change the text [...]

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of June. The month of June saw a lot of articles, interviews, and video from RailsConf 2008. The big excitement from RailsConf was news of MagLev, a ruby implementation built on top of a Smalltalk VM. Other big news items [...]

I have just too many Windows desktop laying around. I use the default Windows’ Remote Desktop Connectivity (RDC) client to connect to anyone of them. For the most part this works great, I even use the OS X version of RDC to connect to a Windows machine. One issue that I have [...]

I recently picked up JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford. Douglas is a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo! whose work with JavaScript has inspired JSON. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, he presents the best features of JavaScript that have made it ubiquitous while omitting those imperfections that have given the language its [...]

I many 10-5 developers not working directly with ajaxified web 2.0 applications I was not able to go to the Google I/O conference. I don’t feel so bad not going since Google has just released video recordings of over 70+ technical presentations from Google I/0. Most of the technical presentations are pushing Google’s [...]

I many 10-5 developers not working directly with ajaxified web 2.0 applications I was not able to go to the Google I/O conference. I don’t feel so bad not going since Google has just released video recordings of over 70+ technical presentations from Google I/0. Most of the technical presentations are pushing Google’s [...]