Aperi – nice idea, but will it fly?
Jon William Toigo over at Byte & Switch has a great article on Aperi and the history of SRM in general. His analysis of industry reaction to the Aperi announcement by IBM is particularly incisive....
View ArticleThe power of so-called scripting languages
We have always been big fans of development languages which have traditionally been referred to as scripting languages. Going back over 10 years, we created some very useful tools and automation...
View ArticleOpen issues on Python development
As mentioned in a previous post, we have been having great success recently using Python as a develoment language for both customer engagements and our own internal long-term projects. There are...
View ArticleEnterprise readiness of Jython?
In our first Python post we mentioned that there can be push-back on the usage of Python in solutions for customers, particularly if the entire system is to be built in Python. An interesting...
View ArticleTurbogears – Well worth a look
We recently had to do a very fast turn-around proof-of-concept for a Web-based Dashboard/Portal/UI on a reasonably straightforward relational schema in SQL Server. As this was to be a throw-away...
View ArticleInquirer Open Source Database Roundup
The Inquirer has a nice round-up of most of the players in the Open Source Datbase Market. Over the past few years, we have dealt with a lot of different customer DBs and here are a few thoughts based...
View ArticleFree VMWare Server – transform your software development efficiency
One of our customers is rightly a big VMWare fan. We have a test-bed in one of their labs running ESX Server with four VMs on one rack-mount. The management and maintenance overhead of this compared to...
View ArticleVersion Control Everything
The world of SCM and Version control has always been a major part of software development but usually comes as a big shock to new developers. SCM approaches range from global Clearcase systems with...
View Articleit@cork Web2.0 Conference – Rob Burke
it@cork Web2.0 Conference Event type: Conference Date: 2006-06-08 Rating: 4 out of 5 As sponsers of the conference, it was only fair that Microsoft was given the opportunity to present their Web 2.0...
View ArticleUse of Scrum with outsourcers?
Over the many years I have worked in project management I have become less and less a fan of the highly formalised methodologies and much more impressed by Agile approaches. I have seen more death...
View ArticleCarson Workshops “A-Z: How to Build a Web App”
0.3 A one day guide to building a Web Application Jul 24, 2006 by Conor O’Neill event Carson Workshops “A-Z: How to build a Web App” ★★★★★ Last Wednesday I attended the one day Carson Workshop on how...
View ArticleWiki Driven Development (WDD)
Jason Kolb coined this great term a few weeks back and it has stuck in my head. He is writing the end-user documentation in the wiki before he starts development. Our scope is slightly less ambitious...
View ArticleComments from April to September back online and sxore remover now available...
As regular readers know, I used the sxore comment system on this blog from April to September. Whilst the intent of sxore was good, the reality fell far short. It was a big mistake handing over my...
View ArticleThat was a rollercoaster 12 months
In one short year we’ve gone from building web-based datacenter management and planning tools for our customer’s customers to starting our own web application development and getting ready to launch...
View ArticleA plea to the WordPress developers
Please please please stop changing what I write. You don’t know best. I do! If I enter three dots, I want three dots, not a bloody ellipsis. I don’t want smart quotes. Don’t replace my apostrophes with...
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