Category Archives: Code
Time Keeps On Slippin - Into The Future
August 7, 2008 – 12:54 pm
I was reading this great series of blog posts over at 43 Folders by Merlin Mann….
Making Time to Make: Bad Correspondence
Making Time to Make: The Job You Think You Have
Making Time to Make: One Clear Line
It deals with balancing your time and making the decision to disconnect from the web a bit - not replying [...]
Google Insight - ColdFusion Not So Hot
August 6, 2008 – 11:30 am
Google rolled out one of it’s cool tools today… Google Insights for Search.
With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.
Of course I had to punch in ColdFusion! Unfortunately the “Interest over time” graph didn’t look to good:
Of course I know these things are skewed all [...]
SQuirrel SQL - Universal SQL Client
August 3, 2008 – 9:43 am
A co-worker told me about this one… SQuirrel SQL bills itself as a “universal SQL client”. At work we use Oracle and I’ve been happy using Oracle’s SQL Developer. At home on Linux I’ve been searching for something to interact with MySQL. The MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser tools provided by MySQL work but [...]
Developer Toolbox - Bitnami Stacks
July 25, 2008 – 8:40 am
Need to get a popular open source application up and running quickly? Maybe you want to try out WordPress or Joomla but don’t know how to get started?
Bitnami has this figured out. Bitnami offers what they call ’stacks’. You can either download an application ’stack’ like Drupal, WordPress, etc. Or you can download a platform [...]
Developer Toolbox - Mockups w/ Balsamiq
July 24, 2008 – 12:13 pm
Balsamiq is a really cool application that allows you to easily mock up page layouts.
Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it’s digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of [...]
Beyond Compare - Now On Linux!
July 18, 2008 – 11:29 pm
One tool I’m always using is Beyond Compare. This is one of those ‘what did I do before I discovered this’ tools. Folder compare, remote compare over FTP, merge, etc. All the good stuff you expect in a diff tool. I’ve been using the 2.x version forever and kind of gave up on checking their [...]
Book Review: Time Management for System Administrators
July 18, 2008 – 11:30 am
Time Management for System Administrators
By Thomas A. Limoncelli
First Edition November 2005
Pages: 226
ISBN 10: 0-596-00783-3 | ISBN 13: 9780596007836
I’ve had this book for a long time and recently re-read it. While it’s targeted at System Administrators (which I used to be in a previous life) a lot of it pertains [...]