Tag Archives: programming

subversion package from Martin Ott

Posted on June 11, 2007 by

Just installed Subversion 1.4.3 from a package made available by Martin Ott. Easy. Quick. Like that. http://www.codingmonkeys.de/mbo/articles/2007/01/25/subversion-1-4-3 Martin Ott is one of the coding monkeys, who make SubEthaEdit, my favorite text editor.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Programmers

Posted on November 30, 2006 by

An interesting read with some useful info: http://www.technicat.com/writing/programming.html For the author, effective means “the ability to complete projects in a timely manner with the expected quality.”

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Fast Prototyping for E-Learning Projects

Posted on November 6, 2006 by

The team at eLab in Ticino has published a chapter on fast prototyping for e-learning projects. It discusses a useful approach for managing instructional design and collaboration in such a way as to produce testable products early and often in … Continue reading →

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Are you developing web applications? Read this…

Posted on August 29, 2006 by

Not this post, but this book: “Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application”, by 37Signals. https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ 37Signals are the developers behind some hugely successful web apps: Basecamp, Backpack, TaDa Lists and others. In “Getting … Continue reading →

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Which screen resolution to design for?

Posted on August 14, 2006 by

In Jacob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox on Screen Resolution and Page Layout, he advises us to optimize for screens that are 1024 x 768 pixels, and to use a liquid layout that increases to the user’s window size. He notes that … Continue reading →

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podcast on sql injection – with hands-on exercices

Posted on July 19, 2006 by

http://www.mightyseek.com/podcasts/hands-on-series-sql-injection

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Ten Deadly Sins of Web Design

Posted on June 20, 2006 by

According to the Swedish Design Magazine CAPDesign, as translated by Roger Johansson of 456bereastreet.com, these are the 10 deadly sins of web design (the blog entry’s comments are also an interesting read): 1. Not following basic typographic rules 2. Being … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails

Posted on October 26, 2005 by

Fast, faster, fastest Web development? The long story: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/13/what_is_rails.html Quick, very quick, look at a demo: http://www.rubyonrails.org/media/video/rails_take2_with_sound.mov Tutorial: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html If you know Perl already…

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