5 Software Entries
- 02-02-2011 Latest and Greatest Techstuffs It’s been a minute since I’ve posted to this blog, and I’ve been accumulating things to talk about faster than I could really compose anything super-cohesive, so this is was going to be another quick summary post. I’ve been using Cygwin at work (at CrossLoop) basically since I started, and as far as just getting [...]
- 08-05-2010 Productivity Proclivity So I’ve begun reading O’Reilly’s “The Productive Programmer” and am trying to put ideas and apps mentioned in its text. I’m learning Unix commands here and there I was never familiar with, like pushd and popd. I’m also learning about quite a few apps I never would have used otherwise. While I myself am focusing [...]
- 04-03-2008 Firefox 3 Gripes and Cheers Firefox 2 seemed a godsend for a long while. After dealing with IE for so long, and remembering the bad old days when I preferred IE to NS, I was barely convinced I was an FF1 user before FF2 came out. Godsend or no, it has since worn heavy and slow on my desktop(s). This [...]
- 02-11-2008 Cake Fun Well, I’ve been getting a good deal of on-the-job Rails practice, and am appreciating how well thought-out the framework is more and more. In contrast, CakePHP is missing a vast number of features. But it’s still quite promising. I’ve decided against playing with Symfony for now, as it’s annoyingly complex and just doesn’t feel right [...]
- 12-19-2007 Making the Grade Managed to score an A in YSlow‘s Performance tab. This takes into account the treating of Flickr, LinkedIn, W3C and thyncology.com as CDNs. The first makes sense as I’ll be serving up images from there for some time at this point. The second is a temporary concession; I need to make a local copy of [...]