August 2003 Archives

Hacknot has a reference to the Misconceptions of the Agile Zealots.

only one element of each kind lands Optimizing Hash Functions For a Perfect Map and The Binary Search Algorithm, among other things.

Patents granted on Voyager technology. Apparently none of my applications were "worthy". ack.

The Sequence Plugin.

On verbosity, Ant's syntax and XML

A Java bug worthy of your vote [dude, that mouse over is annoying] [via small]

Python & Java: Side by Side Comparison. [via small]

Setting fire to the paper tiger discusses the value of Prevayler and the value of not backing your app with a RDBMS.

"jWebUnit is a Java framework that facilitates creation of acceptance tests for web applications." [via fishbowl]

XMOJO. It's LGPL.

"Wafer is a research project which compares the many open source web application frameworks which are available using a common example application." [via http://www.warneronstine.com/]

NPR : Commentary: Web Standards. The commentator sums up his frustration with XML and the like for the average listener.

Social Capital of Blogspace. From The Network is the People.

Clover ETL sports a recent stable release.

"RubyForge is a home for open source Ruby projects."

Java has GUID's built in. (update to Uniqueness)

Zipf, Power-law, Pareto - a ranking tutorial. [via rodcorp]

Spamfire blocks spam for mac users. I'm using TMDA with great success, it runs on your server and is open.

PRESIDENT BLAMES UNEMPLOYMENT ON LACK OF SKILLS.

Gardening, Not Architecture lands Architecture-Centric Programming for Adaptive Systems