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Contributing to open projects

I have started using more and more open source software recently and for many different reasons. I am cheap. Whenever I try something that is free and do the job, I just keep using it. As most open source software are also free, I tend to use them. There are also some gems in the [...]

Posted 16 August 2008 § Software development ‡ Comments (0) °

Building your wiki in 20 minutes

The days of web development where a project like a blog or a wiki would takes months to build are gone. Welcome to the rapid web development era.

This is the new reality. With the advent of web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Django, Pylons, CakePHP, TurboGears, Tapestry and the likes, the world of web development [...]

Posted 10 August 2008 § Software development ‡ Comments (0) °

Programming job interviews

I did many programming job interviews in my life. I did about 10 interviews on the interviewer side and around 25 interviews on the interviewed side. These days, I am on the later side of the fence.
What I still found amazing is how different they all are from each other. You would have thought that [...]

Posted 05 August 2008 § Software development ‡ Comments (0) °

Getting closer to the universal machine

Not so long ago, there was this small internet news about a printer that could self-replicate. It is the RepRap. It did not fly high in the news list, but to me, it is an important achievement.
Why is this important? Because it is one of the small steps toward the universal machine: a machine that [...]

Posted 28 July 2008 § Philosophy § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

My whole experience with Coldfusion

As I left my last job, I am also departing from ColdFusion. It was quite interesting to learn and use that language everyday, but I do not think I will be using it anytime soon. Here are my thoughts on it.
I find that ColdFusion is to web application development what the old version of Visual [...]

Posted 17 July 2008 § Software development ‡ Comments (0) °

Time for changes

These days, it is time for changes in my life. I have just moved into a new apartment with my girlfriend. Actually, my girlfriend is on working in another city, five hours north of here for another two weeks, but we are officially staying together.
The other big news for me is that I resigned from [...]

Posted 14 July 2008 § Philosophy § Software development ‡ Comments (0) °