Technology

David Meyer recently published a .NET class library that enables duck typing (also sometimes incorrectly described as Latent Typing as Ian Griffiths explains in his campaign to... 09/12/2007

Raise your hand if you know how to validate an email address. For those of you with your hand in the air, put it down quickly before someone sees you. It’s an odd site to... 09/12/2007

In my last post , I wrote about how most email validation routines are too strict when compared against what is allowed by the RFC. Initially I dismissed this phenomena as the r... 09/12/2007

I was thinking about alternative ways to block comment spam the other day and it occurred to me that there’s potentially a simpler solution than the Invisible Captcha appr... 09/12/2007

Enterprises understand the importance of business continuity because downtime costs lots of money. With downtime costing the average enterprise more than $1 million per hour, th... 09/11/2007

The System Thinking Laws from Peter Senge’s book “The Fifth Discipline” applied to Software Development. 01/15/2009

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. - Ambrose Bierce We expect that experienced programmer has per... 09/01/2007

“There are very few true artists in computer programming, most are just house painters.” - Tim Bryce’s Law Management consultant Tim Bryce doesn’t like p... 09/01/2007

What should be the qualities of the best leader for the software team: strong decisive knowledgeable or quiet supportive cooperative? 02/28/2008

We know that effective communication with humans requires skills, experience and effort. It is not easy and straightforward. 01/12/2009

Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. - Wikipedia Why it is so difficult to understand the nature of the Software Dev... 09/01/2007

They talk with the business, come up with solutions and make bright key decisions about architecture. But they don’t program. During the course of the project they ensure that d... 05/29/2008

Back in the frontier days of the web, ”Webmaster” was a vaunted, almost mythical, title. The Webmaster was a techno-shaman versed the black arts needed to make words and images... 11/02/2007

With a laptop and digital camera in your bag you can go away to an exotic location and come back with digital memories and over flowing inbox to attend to. This of course is pre... 08/26/2007

After thinking about doing it for many months, I finally converted 2tbsp.com from Wordpress 2 to Drupal 5. I didn't make this move because of anything wrong with Wordpress. Word... 08/23/2007