Under The Fridge

Was happy enough with the features in 2.2, but need to keep on top of security.
Hopefully everything still works.
- Colin

I just went to an interesting presentation by Chris DiBona (from Google). He was mainly talking about various things he does at Google, and some interesting projects and challenges they have.
An entertaining and interesting talk, and it’s good to be able to put a face on at least one small part of the huge entity [...]

The start of a new year.
Always a good time.

This year I intend to get comfortable with TurboGears.
My year of using Eclipse has also been interesting. I’m not sure if I’ll continue, it’s just been too slow and unreliable on my two main platforms (linux-amd64 and linux-ppc), but it was very good at some things. It’s [...]

The S Stands for Simple says what I’ve been thinking about the whole SOAP/WS- thing much more eloquently than I could have imagined.
I’m glad I’m not alone.
- Colin

A little while ago I created some software that will be used by other people. In one of the configuration screens I had an option that would most likely mess things up, but could be extremely useful in very specific, urgent, situations. I elected to make the option usable, but to post a big warning [...]

I’m writing this down so hopefully some other poor sod doesn’t have to go through the debug session I just spend several hours on.
I have a web application that, among other things, presents content to authenticated users. Most of the stuff is HTML, JPG, GIF, with the occasional Flash applet mixed in. The main “show [...]

Ok, someone at Microsoft “gets it”
I generally disagree with him but I think Scoble is spot on on this one, it’s really hard for large traditional corporates to understand why Goodle is winning, and why Apple still exists with a comfortable niche.
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You have to get your stuff used by the people who others go [...]

I’m currently in the process of refactoring parts of a web based application I wrote. The main purpose is to allow it to run across several servers and support automatic fail-over and load balancing. This is an application that has been developed and used internally in our department, with one physical server. In the near [...]