Dazed & Confused

Found some interesting thoughts on Aslak Hellesøy’s blog about webclients and interaction design. He links to something they call Ajax which is pretty much dynamic pages managed by javascript all the way through the application. Google are doing a good job at it right now with their new applications, and the UI would be really [...]

So it is here. Time to go play.

I’m using Yahoo! Launch at work to have something good to listen too, and really like the service. Without paying about 4 bucks a month you don’t get very good sound quality though, and I’d happily pay it to enable the extra features and better quality. I really WANT to pay these bucks. Seriously. But [...]

My collection of Hibernate tip articles should also include this article by Jason Carreira.

I talked to a friend today, and he is implementing an intranet system with Hibernate. They are having performance issues, even though they are using caching and lazy loading. It’s probably due to a bit of a complicated database model, and they might need to tweak some of the SQL that is generated. I did [...]

Head over to Rands for some managerial stereotypes. I guess these stereotypes apply to all coworkers, managerial or not, and as Rands concludes; you need them both and be able to communicate with them.

Before upgrading to WordPress 1.5 I ran captcha to avoid comment spam, but after my 1.5 upgrade I went looking for a plugin that didn’t require modifying the php files. I found Kittens Spaminator and it seems to be working really good. It was easy as hell to install too. It even tarpits the spammers [...]

IBM DeveloperWorks has an article and code coverage tools here.
It looks really smooth, especially Hansel which throws JUnit errors at you if you have parts of the code not covered. I’d like to try out TDD on a project, but I think I’ll try to find some kind of TDD workshop to attend before I [...]

Use it every day. Love it. Go download.

I configured a PVR PC for my dad last christmas and bought Beyond TV 3 to avoid the hassle of setting up MythTV and Linux. It’s been working well, but a friend pointed me to MediaPortal today. It’s an open source product that looks really slick. It’s in early version now, but it should evolve [...]