YASDW - yet another software developer weblog - Part 2

Feb 23

Random Links #139

PyCon Videos
Quite a lot interesting PyCon Videos
The Non-Programming Programmer
Coding Horror without coding skills?
Geo View: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Medal View
A real world JavaFX Application. Anyway, I don’t think this technology has a bright future

Feb 22

Random Links #138

Subversion 1.7 to enable Git-like features
I’m surprised. Offline commits for svn? That’s an interesting move
CouchDB
Another CouchDB intro
Methods of Work: It Didn’t Happen If You Didn’t Write It Down
I have to make more notes. Much more!

Feb 21

Random Links #137

Apache Project Releases PDF Tools
Seems that this is widely used in other Open Source Applications, see the References
A Visual Git Reference
Git in Pictures
Migrating a Spring/Hibernate application to MongoDB – Part 1
Maybe I need this sometime.

Feb 18

Random Links #136

Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects
“Your releases are only in .arj format [ +50 points of FAIL ]“
VersionControlTools
Maybe the most cited Blog entry today. Good stuff.
10+ useful online code editors
With a vim style editor, of course

Feb 17

Random Links #135

Subversion Best Practices
A short and good article
open standards throughout the globe
“open” fitted into a single picture
Harmony: JavaScript And A DOM Environment In Ruby
I know a barber with a similar name
Background Animations Using MooTools
Are these the Simpsons clouds?

Feb 16

Random Links #134

The Definitive Guide To Styling Web Links
Detailed and comprehensive Information on a basic topic
A One Day Griffon Application/Presentation
Griffon? Hype? Maybe.
Freiheit für die Dokumente
CouchDB jetzt schon auf heise (developer) …
Traincoding: shell.py: A pythonic equivalent for perl’s use Shell;
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Feb 15

Random Links #133

The Official web2py Book
Is there a trend of open(free) book publishing in the web?
Django Advent
Wait. Advent?
Tabs versus Spaces: An Eternal Holy War
This is from 2000! A classic.

Feb 14

Random Links #132

Liferay Portal 6 Version Announcement
A Major Release; “Scripting framework” sounds promising
Did I mention #MongoDb is fast?!?! Way to go @mongodb
Nice NoSQL Benchmark
Javascript ePub Readers
Ajaxian, once again

Feb 11

Random Links #131

Sketchpad – Online Paint/Drawing application
No Flash, no extra plugin. Just JavaScript. Awesome.
jBreadCrumb
Collapsible breadcrumbs
Why all programmers should blog
Is a link blog OK?

Feb 10

Random Links #130

FireGestures
A Firefox plugin for working with mouse gestures. Give it a try if you haven’t already.
Top 5 trends and technologies in software development
or: learn something new
Grails: It Just Makes Sense
Yes – for a java shop