From the category archives:

Software Development

Ohloh.net

March 15, 2008

I just discovered http://www.ohloh.net/ - this is a great site, I think the easiest way I can describe it is by saying it is like linkedin.com, but based on opensource projects. You can create an account, and then add opensource projects to your ’stack’.
You can:

see geographically where people with a particular project on their [...]

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FilmSuggestions.com launches

December 20, 2007

I love movies, and have always wanted to keep a catalogue of the great ones if only for my own record.
I had the idea for FilmSuggestions.com several years ago - a site where you could create a list of the best movies you’ve seen, and compare them with your friends. I didn’t get around to [...]

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Constantly learning what not to do

August 7, 2007

I’m sitting here looking at a JSP file which is over 5000 lines long. It has a massive amount of Java code and JavaScript scattered through it, along with some custom tag libraries. It generates an HTML file over 1.5 meg in download size.
The workstation I am using is a Pentium D with 1 Gig [...]

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