Cool Programming

Agile = Hacking?

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:13:53 GMT

Most developers equate the Agile model to hacking. Here's a recent IM conversation with a fellow developer. I almost hit the floor laughing.

Hacker: I like to try to convince clients of the value of building with a more agile model. Don''t pay me to make goofy documentation..pay me to build your site.
Randy: Cool! So you doing extreme programming?
Hacker: Not really, I'm finding the rails framework lets me build stuff so quickly that documentation is a total waste of time -- in most cases. It's just as fast for me to build a quick prototype as it is to write about it and then build it.

Intermediate Developers in Toronto

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:39:42 GMT

A Toronto company is looking to interview on Wednesday, Thursday of this week. Skills: Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP, Java, Javascript, HTML, XTML, XML. Good communications skills.

Send resumes to Randy Charles Morin [randy@kbcafe.com].

http://www.resumebay.net/blog/?guid=20060724092944

Learning from Mistakes

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:14:53 GMT

I'm amazed how many people make the same mistakes over and over and don't seem to progress. Case in point, the rssbandit.org website is down. This was developed by the same people who run 25hoursaday.com (slow or down, pick one) and spaces.msn.com (slow). I guess if you are in charge of three websites and all three of them have performance problems, then you might want to revisit your designs. But often, people are too stubborn to see the flaws in their designs and the painfulness of slow websites remains years later. A successful developer should re-evaluate his designs thoughts on a regular basis and sometimes a drastic re-shuffle is necessary. As we get older, re-shuffling our design priorities becomes increasingly more difficult and increasingly more necessary.

10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:36:26 GMT

MSDN: Here are 10 of the pitfalls that litter the path to releasing your production ASP.NET applications, and what you can do to avoid them.

LoadControl and Output Caching
Sessions and Output Caching
Forms Authentication Ticket Lifetime
View State: The Silent Perf Killer
SQL Server Session State: Another Perf Killer
Uncached Roles
Profile Property Serialization
Thread Pool Saturation
Impersonation and ACL Authorization
Don’t Just Trust It—Profile Your Database!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/07/webappfollies/default.aspx

Websites with no background

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:49:38 GMT

Marcel Marchon reminds us that some webbrowsers allow you to set the background color, so if you aren't specifically setting it yourself, then some users might not be seeing what you want them to see.

http://blog.marchon.org/2006/07/websites-with-no-background-color-or.html

Google's Code Jam Europe 2006

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:59:47 GMT

Video from Google's Code Jam Europe 2006.