Garbage collection, in a very real sense
No, not the knights who say “Gee!”
The fragrant Natbat, my co-worker and fellow cheese-eater, is organising an Oxford(-shire)-based geek evening:
Oxford GeekNights #1
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 @ 8.00pm
Jericho Tavern, Jericho, Oxford
Two or three 15-minute keynote talks, followed by some microslot talks on the night for any speakers from the floor [...]
Adding a helper framework that lets you unit-test your code can speed up development and refactoring no end. With this in mind, I decided to tame a recalcitrant new Coldfusion application by installing cfcUnit on my local Linux box. It was a sufficiently awkward experience that it’s worth sharing the problems I encountered here. I [...]
What happens when nobody will take responsibility for a standard that the web relies on?
RSS, the standard millions of us use to syndicate content, and view other people’s syndicated content, was originally invented by Ramanathan Guha at Netscape, for use on its my.netscape.com portal. Soon afterwards, Netscape lost interest in the format, leaving it ownerless [...]
Happy new year, all. A short and relatively under-researched one to kick off 2007, as I’m suddenly very busy with multiple projects. Just to keep those Google fires burning….
I’m currently taking over a maintenance project from a co-worker. The architecture in question integrates our CMS with Raiser’s Edge, the charity-oriented system from Blackbaud for tracking [...]