Monthly Archives: December 2004

I heard many positive stories about “Ruby on Rails”:http://www.rubyonrails.org, the trouble is that I’m not so fond of Ruby. “Python”:http://www.pyhon.org is much cooler, but why doesn’t it have a cool framework like that? Then I realized… wait, isn’t one of the better web application servers built on Python? Absolutely, and its name is “Zope”:http://www.zope.org. ZopeContinue reading “Zope”

Do you hate it too that your download manager slurps up all of your bandwidth? That because BitTorrent is using all of your precious upload bandwidth, loading a website takes two minutes? That the people you share your internet connection with are knocking on your door every time you’re downloading ehm… a Linux distribution? Yeah,Continue reading “NetLimiter”

Joel sat down behind his PC, waved his hands a little and low and behold, there it was: another essay. This time it’s on software pricing and confusingly enough entitled “Camels and Rubber Duckies”:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html. Why that is becomes clear when you read it. And as always: you should. I suspect Joel was having quite aContinue reading “Software Pricing”

Somebody showed me two comics yesterday that I find really great. They’re about Mr. Period. I’ll not inline them here because they contain some explicit language. So, before you click the links below, let your children leave the room if you believe that helps. Oh, and by the way, seriously, your kids will learn theContinue reading “Mr. Period”

Something what’s considered to be one of the major strengths of open source, is that you can modify the source code to suit your needs. If something doesn’t work the way you want it to, you can change it. If you find a bug, you can fix it. Great huh? This monday I’ve had twoContinue reading “The True Power of Open Source”

Yep, I’ve been programming a little in the past few days. A couple of months ago I “talked a little about post formatting”:http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/09/20/post-formatting and how I thought the BB-codes that today are used (like [b]bla bla bla[/b] for bold) are really not that great. Right now I’m working on my own ASCII to HTML converterContinue reading “Code Formatter I’m Working On”

Yesterday night (my time), Microsoft has released a beta version of MSN Desktop Search. MSN Desktop Search is Microsoft’s answer to “Google Desktop Search”:http://desktop.google.com. Personally I think it’s also something meant as a temporary replacement for WinFS. Of course, it’s not nearly as advanced, but it does, what most people will consider to be theContinue reading “MSN Desktop Search Launched”

Yesterday I talked a little about rich web UIs. I wasn’t the only one, apparantly, after the release of “Google Suggest”:http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en the whole web-development-involved “blogosphere” is talking about it. A couple comments I got and found on my post say that we shouldn’t make web applications rich, because if you want richness, you should useContinue reading “Rich Web UI: Search As You Type”

Webapplications need to be enriched. A couple of months ago I thought what we had back then was about as rich as we could get, but since Google started to write rich web applications I believe we can do a lot better than what we’re doing right now. Have a look at Gmail and theContinue reading “We Need a Client-Side Web Framework”

I have been looking around for some interesting Python resources today and this is what I found: * “Python vs PHP”:http://wiki.w4py.org/pythonvsphp.html* “Guido van Rossum’s weblog”:http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=guido (kinda dead)* “Python at Wikipedia”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_programming_language* “A Byte of Python”:http://www.byteofpython.info/read/index.html (online book)* “PyDev”:http://pydev.sourceforge.net/ (Python Eclipse plugin)* “The Web Framework Shootout”:http://colorstudy.com/docs/shootout.html* “Python Frameworks and J2EE Standards”:http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/web_modules_enterprise.html* “Webware for Python”:http://www.webwareforpython.org* “Writing CGI ProgramsContinue reading “Some Python Links”