Apress Sale
Posted on May 2, 2006 - Filed Under Programming | 1 Comment
Bookpool has their Apress books 50% right now. I picked up a few that I have been wanting.
Eric Sink on the Business of Software by Eric Sink
Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality by Bob Walsh
Expert C# 2005 Business Objects, 2nd Edition by Rockford Lhotka
I even got a free t-shirt for buying 3 Apress books. Good times.
Perlmonks
Posted on November 2, 2005 - Filed Under Programming | Leave a Comment
I’ve been on perlmonks for a while now. I’ve been slowly working my way up the rankings heading slowly towards sainthood. Heck, one of my goals this year was to become a saint and I was right on schedule too…. until yesterday. What happened yesterday you ask? Well, yesterday the changed the ranking system to [...]
Read More..>>IntelliJ IDEA 5.0
Posted on August 12, 2005 - Filed Under Programming | Leave a Comment
I finally got around to upgrading to the latest version of IDEA. I need to use Eclipse some to see if they’ve caught up. Honestly, if IDEA had existed several years ago then I might still be a fulltime java developer.
Read More..>>Learning
Posted on August 11, 2005 - Filed Under Programming | Leave a Comment
I got an email yesterday from the trijug saying that Andy Hunt of the pragmatic programmers was giving a presentation at their monthly meeting last night. It got me a little depressed since I live in developer hell aka upstate sc.
His talk was on learning… how we acquire new skills. Him and Dave Thomas [...]
Backpack
Posted on August 10, 2005 - Filed Under General, Programming | 2 Comments
I’ve been using Backpack lately and I must say that I really like it. Very slick. I wish I had a project to work on to try Basecamp. Man, that looks awesome. Both of these apps are written in Ruby on Rails which is supposed to be the big php killer. Note to self: learn [...]
Read More..>>Fonts
Posted on June 1, 2005 - Filed Under Programming | Leave a Comment
I stumbled upon a pretty cool programming fonts link today. Lots of cool fonts. Personally, I’ve been using Proggy Clean (slashed zero, bold punctuation) for a while now and love it… as much as a man can love a font
Read More..>>Subversion
Posted on January 27, 2005 - Filed Under Programming | Leave a Comment
At work I use Visual SourceSafe for version control. It’s not what I want to use but it’s better than nothing… technically, I’ve been using nothing for the past month or so since my server has been taken offline but that’s another story. I would prefer to use Sourcegear: Vault. I had [...]
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