2004

Explore posts from 2004 below.

RSS Audio Convenience

Some of the Internet Radio shows I listen to include Brainbrew and Tech Nation. Last week I was toying with sending an email to each of these web sites asking for an RSS feed....

December 30, 2004
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doxygen

I've used doxygen in the past to provide hyper linked API level documentation for C++ source code, but until now didn't realize how useful the diagrams it can produce are....

documentation cpp uml software-architecture development-tools
December 29, 2004
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POSIX Serial Programming

I've been working on a cross platform Modbus communications library and driver over the last month or so. It involved a number of communication transports – tcp/ip, direct serial port and modem...

December 28, 2004
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Ward Cunningham Interview

Check out the Ward Cunningham interview on The ServerSide.net. I identify somewhat with the following quote: I do know that a lot of times if the programmer gets good, while he is getting good, he...

community professional-development agile programming
December 2, 2004
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IT Conversations Business Model

Doug Kaye of IT Conversations asked for some feedback on a business model for his site. Here's a copy of my suggestions: I personally find the variety of conferences available throughout the world...

business-analysis podcasts conferences community
November 29, 2004
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Tabbed Browsing

Tabbed browsing in Firefox is way useful. Take this post from Sam Gentile: "First this one with this, and then him. Now only if we can have this one go too.!Blog tracking pixel" I didn't have a clue...

firefox browser internet-explorer web-development productivity-tools
November 25, 2004
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Whitepages Search

I had another one of those "aren't web searches amazing" moments today. In the process of trying to find the phone number of a school, I eventually gave up on www.whitepages.com.au and used the...

November 10, 2004
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VB.NET Refactoring Cut

Sam Gentile is not happy about the cutting of most of the refactoring functionality out of VS.NET 2005. I tend to stay on the C# side of the fence - just because that's the syntax I'm most familiar...

vb-net visual-studio refactoring microsoft development-tools
November 5, 2004
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JBoss IDE Demo

I subscribe to the "Enter the JBoss Matrix" feed and got a link to this video from there. Now the JBoss IDE stuff was interesting and the Eclipse IDE looks pretty snazzy (some day I'll get around to...

October 27, 2004
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