Software As She’s Developed

I discovered at last minute a developer event on Yahoo! FireEagle at Covent Garden tonight and decided to rush down there. FireEagle is pretty intriguing as the first serious attempt at an OAuth API (though Google Contacts now qualifies too). For me, that was the main draw; but the actual service it offers is also […]

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I made a little music mashup you might enjoy using. A Little Music As I was playing around with the new layout of this blog, I added a Last.FM widget to the sidebar. It looks like this: table.lfmWidgetradioeef448421daa7cdb759397e5f8ea67f8 td {margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;border:0 !important;}table.lfmWidgetradioeef448421daa7cdb759397e5f8ea67f8 tr.lfmHead a:hover {background:url(http://cdn.last.fm/widgets/images/en/header/radio/minired.png) no-repeat 0 0 !important;}table.lfmWidgetradioeef448421daa7cdb759397e5f8ea67f8 tr.lfmEmbed object {float:left;}table.lfmWidgetradioeef448421daa7cdb759397e5f8ea67f8 tr.lfmFoot td.lfmConfig a:hover {background:url(http://cdn.last.fm/widgets/images/en/footer/red.png) no-repeat [...]

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I've updated the tags on this blog. Since July, 2005, I've been using SimpleTags by Burble, which was just a simple <tags> tag embedded in the content. Having upgraded to WP 2.3+, I can use Wordpress's built-in tags and the ecosystem around them. This mean I can use the Simple Tags plugin by Amaury Balmer (same [...]

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A couple of high-profile bloggers (via Dion) make the switch from Apple to Linux and O'Reilly Radar wonders if it's the starty of a trend. While I prefer working with Apple, I'm nonetheless an Ubuntu fan so I certainly hope this trend picks up. However, I wonder if people know what they're getting into. In [...]

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Seen on Tech Memeorandum ... Say it with me now ... "Woo". Of course, the only thing sadder than blogging the outage would be ...

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I had a funny story the other day: Someone referred me to Ajax Patterns. While researching a number of patterns, I contacted relevant developers for their take, as reflected in the pattern-specific acknowledgements. I have to say I'm very grateful for everyone's help and most people have given me plenty of detail. While researching one pattern [...]

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I'm pleased to announce that I've joined Dion, Ben, and Rob as an Ajaxian.com editor. Here's Dion's announcement: We are proud to announce that Michael Mahemoff of the popular AjaxPatterns.org has joined the Ajaxian.com team. Together, Ajaxian.com and Ajax Patterns is going to offer even more information for users of Ajax technology. Expect to see [...]

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I've been posting Ajax entries under "HumansAndTech" or "SoftwareDev" or both and holding off on a special category. I'm grateful that the Ajaxians included me in their planet.ajaxian.com feed, and that's the tipping point for me: I still want to write about agile, OO, etc., without polluting the Ajax sphere. Hence, a new "Ajax" category [...]

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Tagyu (via Lifehacker) accepts a URL (or some text) and gives you some tags. Tags for AjaxPatterns: ajax javascript programming web Tags for SoftwareAs.com: ajax tech webdesign design blog webdev web_2.0 Consarn it! It actually did a good job! I was hoping something off the mark. [...]

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You're right, Jason - the voice behind "Developers, Developers, Developers" is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. I thought it would be fun to include the clip over my podcast theme. Hearing Jason explain he had to pull over while laughing so hard makes it all worthwhile! I've seen few things that make people laugh so [...]

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