Category: Software

Today I spent a very enjoable morning with Dave Thomas. (http://www.davethomas.net/) Not the Pragmatic Programming Dave Thomas, aka Prag Dave. The talk was about programming 2010-2020. In other words, not what the next big thing is, but something way in the future. Most of the talk was on DOD – Domain Oriented Development. For concrete… Continue reading A morning with Dave Thomas, the other Dave

I often get accused of being cache centric in my ideas on performance. As I attend OSCON this year I have kept my ear out, both in and out of the sessions, for how everyone is solving performance problems. There seems to be couple of themes. One is to keep as much away from your… Continue reading OSCON2006: Databases and Caching

A month or so ago we talked about how to script deployments. We do Java, Ruby and Python deployments. We sort of had some ideas but came up blank. Capistrano, a ruby app, uses ssh and relies on posix commands, so it will work on pretty much anything other than windows. I went to the… Continue reading OSCON2006: Capistrano

I attended a session here at OSCON on Rolling Your Own Google Maps. It is rolling your own Google maps without Google. The session also covered Google Maps. My own beginner effort, showing where I live, is here.

The title of this document is “Writely is now stuffed”. But my blog is not entitled that. Also, following should be an image. But it is broken. Why? Because writely’s img src is missing “http://writely.com”. So, in the last three months since Google bought Writely, it no longer works properly and is closed for new… Continue reading The title of this