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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Unreliable train schedule software
In case you have been wondering why I have not been writing as much as I did in the last few weeks, it is because I was on vacation in Italy. Which brings me to my next post: how much reliable your software must be?
According to those responsible for the train schedule software in Rome’s [...]