Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Jiffy
This is a firebug extension for measuring accurately the JS performance I have installed and tested it in this site sounds like a good idea and to see it running makes sense will start using it from now on,particularly on extJs sites ;p
Sign the Entity Framework Comunity Vote of no Confidence
OMG I just saw this http://efvote.wufoo.com/forms/ado-net-entity-framework-vote-of-no-confidence/ and I had to post it.
Monday, June 23, 2008
IOTC Conference
Last Thursday and Friday I was at the IOTC, an Open Source Conference. I went to a few talks
1) Saw Geoffrey Grosenbach talking about Phusion Passenger. The talk target was a bit too wide, however i think he was good at explaining some of the basics. It would have been good to see some sample code but hey. All in all interesting
2) Talk by Clint Oram the guy from Sugar CRM, well he was basically evangelising about Open Source in general, TBH It was really boring, maybe i just didnt understand the whole topic of the talk ... I believe most of us in the audience were developers, I wish he showed us some goodness, some features, some smart API ...or how do they manage their interactions with all the developers in !=locations, how do they evaluate whats code to include or not, who is in charge of that, etc ...
He mentioned some deal that they(Sugar CRM) made with hosting 365 and Clint is now living in Ireland.
3) WURFL and WALL. This talk was the start of a really interesting day and a great talk about something I might be using at some point . WURFL is a Device Description repository, it uses a tag that the device send to find out what capabilities does the device have, WURLF seems to fit in nicely with WALL, a markup language (that reminded me a little to nVelocity) that renders according to the querying device. Really interesting and real cool the way the WURFL file is organized (and a surprising 8Mb File)
4) ZOPE. A Phyton Framework. I think this talked turned out to be very different to what was originally intended however it was good to hear practises applyed to a OS Irish Shop. There was a lot of talk about how their complete process flows, from development to deplyment. For example he mentioned how they use subversion, firebug, how do they use versioning of their phyton and db versions... and then he talked about Zope, I only had a very diluted idea of what was Zope Architecture and what was it supposed to do, I m still not terribly clear however there were some interesting details all the food related stuff was real nice(and good easy to remember names) Eggs, cheeseShop, etc. I must check the entity generation as it sounds very interesting.
The presenter, Con Hennessy works for a company called OpenApp interestingly they deploy solutions for the government, he mentioned the HSE. All in all real interesting
5) PHP Frameworks. This talk really took me by surprise, David Coallier is part of the php core team and he knew what he was on about. He talked about web frameworks: Cake, Zend, Symfony (all MVCs) and Prado( an event driven one that I dont find interesting at all) then he went on talking about testing frameworks (this was really interesting as I knew nothing about php testing frameworks) here the list was PHPUnit, SimpleTest (it looks like he liked this one and I liked the asserts syntax) and another one that was for real low leve testing (hence not interested as I know for sure I m not gonna be debugging php core anytime soon )
ok that s all for today I wanted to add some nice pics but as I was searching I realised i don't know how to make sure i m not breaking any law by using the image so I ll find out later and go to sleep now
1) Saw Geoffrey Grosenbach talking about Phusion Passenger. The talk target was a bit too wide, however i think he was good at explaining some of the basics. It would have been good to see some sample code but hey. All in all interesting
2) Talk by Clint Oram the guy from Sugar CRM, well he was basically evangelising about Open Source in general, TBH It was really boring, maybe i just didnt understand the whole topic of the talk ... I believe most of us in the audience were developers, I wish he showed us some goodness, some features, some smart API ...or how do they manage their interactions with all the developers in !=locations, how do they evaluate whats code to include or not, who is in charge of that, etc ...
He mentioned some deal that they(Sugar CRM) made with hosting 365 and Clint is now living in Ireland.
3) WURFL and WALL. This talk was the start of a really interesting day and a great talk about something I might be using at some point . WURFL is a Device Description repository, it uses a tag that the device send to find out what capabilities does the device have, WURLF seems to fit in nicely with WALL, a markup language (that reminded me a little to nVelocity) that renders according to the querying device. Really interesting and real cool the way the WURFL file is organized (and a surprising 8Mb File)
4) ZOPE. A Phyton Framework. I think this talked turned out to be very different to what was originally intended however it was good to hear practises applyed to a OS Irish Shop. There was a lot of talk about how their complete process flows, from development to deplyment. For example he mentioned how they use subversion, firebug, how do they use versioning of their phyton and db versions... and then he talked about Zope, I only had a very diluted idea of what was Zope Architecture and what was it supposed to do, I m still not terribly clear however there were some interesting details all the food related stuff was real nice(and good easy to remember names) Eggs, cheeseShop, etc. I must check the entity generation as it sounds very interesting.
The presenter, Con Hennessy works for a company called OpenApp interestingly they deploy solutions for the government, he mentioned the HSE. All in all real interesting
5) PHP Frameworks. This talk really took me by surprise, David Coallier is part of the php core team and he knew what he was on about. He talked about web frameworks: Cake, Zend, Symfony (all MVCs) and Prado( an event driven one that I dont find interesting at all) then he went on talking about testing frameworks (this was really interesting as I knew nothing about php testing frameworks) here the list was PHPUnit, SimpleTest (it looks like he liked this one and I liked the asserts syntax) and another one that was for real low leve testing (hence not interested as I know for sure I m not gonna be debugging php core anytime soon )
ok that s all for today I wanted to add some nice pics but as I was searching I realised i don't know how to make sure i m not breaking any law by using the image so I ll find out later and go to sleep now
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Super easy image replacement with jQuery
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/demo/jquery/img-replacement.html
look at the source code for this, is it clean or what?
took me little time to get something up and running in a real nice way
This is a sufficient reason to love jQuery and whoever it is wrote this :)
Cheers
look at the source code for this, is it clean or what?
took me little time to get something up and running in a real nice way
This is a sufficient reason to love jQuery and whoever it is wrote this :)
Cheers
Friday, June 13, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Installation
I saw Scott Gu's post about Silverlight and I decided OK I ll go and get it. Well the install took 10 minutes and i had to close everything (Visual Studio ,IE Firefox), such an nuisance compared to the instal of Yahoo's Browser plus.
Did not try anything after that, to be honest , it doesnt call me or something... I ll need to be pushed into this one.
Did not try anything after that, to be honest , it doesnt call me or something... I ll need to be pushed into this one.
New release of Nhibernate EAP
The most interesting thing today was an email from Manning with the new release of the EAP of Nhibernate in Action (still in chapter 3 :( ) .
On the plus side, first time I ever bother reading the table of contents in detail, and yes, I found an appendix called Introducing ActiveRecord and MonoRail, at first this made me really happy, but now that I think about it, the appendix should really only be about Active Record, else its gonna be too short.
I think I would like to see a mention of Machine Migrations (and similar tools)
PS: Did I just say this is the most interesting thing in the day ? ( well appart from lunch in the park yeah, it pretty much was)
On the plus side, first time I ever bother reading the table of contents in detail, and yes, I found an appendix called Introducing ActiveRecord and MonoRail, at first this made me really happy, but now that I think about it, the appendix should really only be about Active Record, else its gonna be too short.
I think I would like to see a mention of Machine Migrations (and similar tools)
PS: Did I just say this is the most interesting thing in the day ? ( well appart from lunch in the park yeah, it pretty much was)
Monday, June 9, 2008
No Non-sense jQuery
John Resig just posted some talks he gave and they are so easy to understand that it hurts. I really like the jQuery syntax, ok is a different approach to a JS library than ExtJs, and I like it, unobtrusive and lightweight with loads of plug ins available.
I really like this grid (ok ok it does use a table for layout but hey, looks good and you read the code and immediately know what's happening) .
I really like this grid (ok ok it does use a table for layout but hey, looks good and you read the code and immediately know what's happening) .
Friday, June 6, 2008
MS Word save to PDF
hi there
I dont think this is ultra necesary or anything like that but i know i ll need it at some point
Micro$oft has a plug in to save a document as a pdf its well integrated and seems to work ok.
here is the url http://url.ie/f9v
there are other options if you dont have word 2k7 I think is called pdf95
I dont think this is ultra necesary or anything like that but i know i ll need it at some point
Micro$oft has a plug in to save a document as a pdf its well integrated and seems to work ok.
here is the url http://url.ie/f9v
there are other options if you dont have word 2k7 I think is called pdf95
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Another Debugger for IE
We all know how painful it is to debug websites in ie, (particularly 6 what a terrible browser that.... i ll rant properly about it another day) today i stumbled across this little tool call DebugBar it was all great until I installed it in my machine and it doesn't work. (no contextual menus, no nothing)
However I ll have to give it a try in another machine as mine is a Vista Home Edition ( yuck yuck) I should be updating to ultimate pretty soon ( hopefully Saturday) when I know I m safeguarded by at least a virtual environment to work in.
All for now if anyone has comments/ opinions very welcome :D
However I ll have to give it a try in another machine as mine is a Vista Home Edition ( yuck yuck) I should be updating to ultimate pretty soon ( hopefully Saturday) when I know I m safeguarded by at least a virtual environment to work in.
All for now if anyone has comments/ opinions very welcome :D
Hidden Doc Gem - ExtJS
hi again
OK i just found this out last Monday and it was there all along i just never paid attention to it and found it extremely handy.
This http://extjs.com/learn/Ext_Manual there is a lot of JS introduction and also good to read about the component model http://extjs.com/learn/Ext_2_Overview#Component_Model
I just though i d blog about it cause It was easy to miss
OK i just found this out last Monday and it was there all along i just never paid attention to it and found it extremely handy.
This http://extjs.com/learn/Ext_Manual there is a lot of JS introduction and also good to read about the component model http://extjs.com/learn/Ext_2_Overview#Component_Model
I just though i d blog about it cause It was easy to miss
Umbrella
Today ayende blogged about this and i found it really interesting
here: http://www.codeplex.com/umbrella# you can get the code and tests
http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/06/04/Review-Umbrella-project.aspx ayendes blog
here: http://www.codeplex.com/umbrella# you can get the code and tests
http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/06/04/Review-Umbrella-project.aspx ayendes blog
Some Cool Things
Today's interesting find is Browser Plus I heard about this first a few months ago but there was not much real info about it.
I have to say i was really impressed by the installer short, sweet and very intuitive.
Also the capabilities that it provides seem simple but powerful, i m very interested in the Ruby Interpreter Service
Promising.
I have to say i was really impressed by the installer short, sweet and very intuitive.
Also the capabilities that it provides seem simple but powerful, i m very interested in the Ruby Interpreter Service
Promising.
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