SQLite in Flex
When we spec'd out the Web2project Desktop Client, the Vision was to build a simple client that would retrieve a…
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Why Git Makes Sense for Me
Over a year and a half ago, I caught one of Travis Swicegood's sessions on “Getting Git.” At the time,…
Event Driven Programming
During my Live Coding sessions at TEK·X* last week, one of the questions that came up repeatedly was: Events… what…
Twas the Night before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house,Not a peripheral was stirring, not even my mouse. I with…
Open Sourcing the Page Rank Algorithm
I'm proud to have the honor to make the single biggest announcement of 2009: Google is open sourcing the Page…
Code Review Post Mortem
At last month's DCPHP meeting, we did our first Code Review. I wasn't sure how it would go or even…
Software Development Failures?
In my regular wanderings of the web, I came across an interesting article titled “Why Software Developers Refuse to Improve“. …
Data vs Useful Data
Years ago I worked for a company which shall remain nameless. They collected data on everything: We had to swipe…
Bad Assumptions in Development
Quite often when I'm pouring through an old codebase or evaluating a new codebase, I run into a variety of…
The Third Rule of Software Development
Previously, I've talked about what I consider to be the first two rules of software development: The first rule was…