Archive for September, 2009

Beating the duct programmer with generic domains, subdomains, and core domains

There has been a certain amount of noise and comment around Joel Spolsky’s post on the duct tape programmer.
This is, for me, just another manifestation of the hero coder – the guy the business love because he ‘gets things done’.

One For All and All For One: A Single Linux Distribution

Yes, you’re reading that correctly. There can be only one. One is enough for anyone.

Using Java Collections In Scala

Despite the fact that Scala has been out with active usage in Java community for couple of years now the integration between Java collections and Scala collections still baffles many newcomers. And for good reasons. Despite many blogs and forum postings the reason for this unusual friction remains illusive.

The Art of Branding Yourself and Your Freelancing Business

Just as it is for big corporations, successful branding is essential to the success of a freelancing business and to just one self-employed web worker.
It is often times overlooked, most likely because many don’t realize the large benefits that can come from it.
The first thing we think of when we think “brand identity” is a [...]

PHP Security: Are you paying attention?

Reflection and analysis of a recent security issue and how and why security should be part of your development process.

What is “Network-Side Scripting”?

This article, the first in a series of four, explains how “network side scripting” should be another technique in your application toolbox. However, why is “putting code on the network” a good idea?

Practical testing in php part 6: refactoring and patterns

In the xUnit world, tests are code. While there are testing tools which treats tests as data, phpunit and companions recognize classes and objects: this means that they are first class citizens and there should be no distinction in importance between production and test code.

YUI 3.0.0: First GA Release of YUI’s Next-Generation Codeline

We’re pleased to announce today the general-availability release of YUI 3.0.0. YUI 3’s core infrastructure (YUI, Node and Event) and its utility suite (including Animation, IO, Drag & Drop and more) are all considered production-ready with today’s release.

Launching a new project… Web.Ontuts.com!

Ey guys! Maybe you remember the last post about the Ontuts theme… so I am just want to let you know that We are launching a new blog tutorials called Web.Ontuts focused in spanish web tutorials.
Here you have a little description (in spanish):
Después de varios meses de planificación nos hemos decidido a lanzar Web.Ontuts, una [...]

Visual Studio 2010 + .NET 4.0 = Parallelism for the Masses

Got Multiple Processors? With the hardware advances today, you would really have to search hard to find a good laptop, desktop, or server that doesn’t come with multi-core processor technologies in the box…
As software developers, we have been spoiled by Moore’s Law (http://www.intel.com/technology/mooreslaw) which states that: “The number of transistors on a chip will [...]