Articles tagged 'el'
So true it makes me cry Apr 4 2006
This is a funny post, however it’s so true it actually smarts a little. I’ve been the developer on the end of it, the recipient of the nonsensical buzz words, lingo, quizzical looks and random remarks. It is obviously some kind of global experiment into the limits of a developer’s mind, the level’s at which he or she cracks and loses it. I’m sure this is just the beginning - I bet middle management types could write entire book’s of this kind of material :-)
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, insanity, buzzwords, nonsense, “middle management”
Read the signals Apr 4 2006
Here’s an informative review of 37 Signal’s online-only book, Getting Real. It’s something I wanted to get round to reading, so I think I’ll have to lay down the meagre $19 and pick myself up a copy. Of course, I mean, download myself a copy. Interestingly, Jason at 37S provides a 30 day update on the book, and DHH comments on how well the self-publishing route has gone for them. I think I’m now convinced it’s worth my time to read it (I’ve got a Rails book, a Ruby book, an ASP.NET book, and I’m part way through an Avalon book right now), even if I do have to sit at my PC to read it (may have to investigate - is there a decent PDF reader for the Sony PSP yet?). In the mean time, I wonder what 37 Signals next hit will be, how will they keep it real, but still provide me with another interesting, functional, useful product?
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, 37signals, “getting real”, ruby, rails
Mmm, hotdogs Apr 4 2006
Baseball season is back, and despite being an Englishman, the allure of hotdogs, warm floodlit evenings, and nine innings of big home runs, superb fielding, and cut-throat pitching are too much to resist. I hope to see a few games when I get over to the States later this year, but now, thanks to Gabe over at Memeorandum, I have an easy way to track baseball news - BallBug. Between this, and my MLB.TV subscription, I should have this season covered nicely :-) Take me out to the ball game!
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, baseball, ballbug, mlb, mlbtv, memeorandum
Link blogging Apr 4 2006
Ok, in order to cut-down on the amount of link blogging I’ve been doing, here’s a post with the rest of the links I’ve been wanting to get off my desk last few days:
- MSBuild Community Tasks Project - a collection of community written, useful MSBuild tasks
- Scott Hanselman’s experiences of toying with an experimental Monad Subversion provider, as part of the AnkhSVN project
- More Monad/MSH related tomfoolery - a tool for working with and scripting with MSH, MSH Analyzer
- Some kind of uber-guide / set of articles on home studio recording, and how to get a decent setup together (sound engineering and home recording has always interested me - I’m going to organize my thoughts, so expect more on this soon)
- iFolder goes open-source!
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, msbuild, svn, monad, msh, “msh analyzer”, tweakz, “sound engineering”, ifolder, oss Comments
Stick this in yer pipe Apr 3 2006
A great demo of the power of the ASP.NET processing pipeline.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, asp.net, dotnet
Ex-Framework Apr 3 2006
As some people may or may not have noticed, I have given up on the xFramework project. The various related project url’s now point to this very blog, and I guess the reason I gave it up is because I figured it just wasn’t that useful. There were no other contributors, so there are no licensing issues - obviously any one who took a snapshot of the licensed code is free to continue to work with that code based on the terms under which it was licensed, however going forward the repository has been retired, and I will no longer work on or continue to update xFramework. Going forward, for those that are interested, I will take the most useful parts of xFramework (namely the reflection helper code, the unit-testing framework, and the web/Xml stuff) and use it to form my own “internal” framework, upon which I will base a few applications I’ve been dreaming up. I’m hoping this will be a more streamlined approach for me, and might work out with better results than if these applications were based on a separate open-source framework I had to maintain aswell.
More news to follow on the result of this change, and the applications I’m working on, shortly I hope.
And for those wondering what happened to my series of articles on Ruby on Rails, I’m working on a BIG next installment, that’ll be a complete walkthrough of my experiences creating a simple database web application, from start-to-finish. The idea is that all the basics, resulting in a fully functioning app, will be completed by the end of this next part, and the following tutorial will then fill in some fancy details, like some advanced style techniques, AJAX, alsorts of extras.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, xframework, mono, coding, ruby, rails
FB-Aiiight Apr 3 2006
Go on my son, tally ‘ho and all that, us British now have our very own UK FBI. Except they called it something stupid. The Serious Organised Crime Agency, or SOCA (which is pronounced like the American word for our beautiful game), will act as Britain’s FBI, taking on more organised crime outfits, syndicates, and gangs, and having better powers to deal with them. They will include espionage agents to infiltrate these groups, and this is the first non-police law enforcement agency in Britain. I think it’s a great idea, but come on, what’s with the fucking name? What was wrong with the “National Bureau of Investigation”? “National Agency of Investigation”? Up, up and away old chap, simply spiffing.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, soca, fbi, football, soccer, british, uk
Cross-platform madness Apr 2 2006
Ah this is excellent - the first step towards all of my Banshee/F-Spot/Diva on Windows dreams coming true! Having a unified cross-platform multimedia base for applications would be truly excellent, lets see how it pans out.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, gstreamer, gst, banshee, fspot, diva, mono
Free software at it's finest? Apr 1 2006
This is why I’m starting to switch over where possible to free software, and in particular, why I wanted to get a fully functional Linux desktop up and running (which I’ve now done with my old shuttlebox, an AMD64 3200+ with a gig of RAM, and Fedora Core 5 on it).
Diva is fully functional, commercial grade video editing software, that’s open source and free. Although this is the initial 0.0.1 release, it’s already looking professional, and feature packed. A product of the Google Summer of Code, kudos to the main man behind it, and a real testament to the power of Mono/Gnome, and some keen coding. Awesome.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, diva, “diva project”, “video editing”, “open source”, mono, gnome, mdk, “fedora core”
And the hits, they keep on a coming... Apr 1 2006
As you can tell by now, I’m on a blogging marathon. My aim is to blog more regularly, but to start with I’m getting through a whole host of things I wanted to blog about. And here’s another…
Centralia. Meant nothing to me, until I read this article. I’m sure I’m not the only person that finds this most interesting. There’s not a whole lot else to say about it, except that it looks like it could be what this years film adaptation of the PlayStation game Silent Hill might have drawn some influences from. In fact, looking carefully on IMDB for the film, it was known as “Silent Hill: Centralia” as a working title. I haven’t played the game well enough to know whether that itself was based upon the story of this Pennsylvanian town, or whether this extra reference was made within the movie to add to the existing story of the original 1999 Silent Hill video game, however it seems that somewhere at least, the story of Centralia is appealing as a basis for horror thriller fiction - despite the fact that the fires underground the town still burn this very day. Crazy stuff.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, centralia, “silent hill”, interesting
Gotta love April Fools Apr 1 2006
So another April Fools day, another Google joke. I still think the best April Fools prank that Google could pull would be to actually pick one of these bogus ideas they come up with every year, and try to make it stick. The Lunar base, the MentalPlex, or Google Romance - come April 2nd, I want to see it still proudly displayed as part of the Google portfolio. I mean after all, it’s Google we’re talking about, of course it’d work.
But my favourite April Fools joke I’ve seen today is GameSpots excellent and totally serious feature on the best Final Fantasy games. The top ten Final Fantasy games of all time to be exact. Including some games that have nothing to do with Final Fantasy, as well as counting Final Fantasy VIII twice because it’s so awesome, it’s definitely a definitive article for the FF fan. My vote for the best FF game of all time? RF Online. It’s more Final Fantasy than FFXI ever could be :-)
I want one Apr 1 2006
Here’s a piece of tech I’d like on my wrist - a SleepTracker. While reading Signal vs Noise, an interesting post caught my eye singing the praises of two pieces of kit - the StressEraser, and the SleepTracker. The StressEraser doesn’t appeal so much - luckily (at the minute at least) I’m doing a pretty good job of keeping stress under control, however the SleepTracker seems like a fairly cool toy, seeing as I always seem to suffer from grogginess and “over-tiredness” when I wake. To be able to be woken up during a certain window, at a time that the device thinks would suit me best (at an almost-awake moment) might leave me feeling a bit more with it and fresh in the mornings.
At £85 it’s not cheap, but isn’t overly expensive either. Might have to give it a go.
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