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Inventory Management for Developers
The excellent Alistair Cockburn discuses why software development is remarkably like manufacturing and how we can learn from modern manufacturing theory to better structure our software delivery...
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Tables Vs. XML; the data lingua franca debate.
Okay I’m exaggerating, there’s no debate, those using tables (mainly business-orientated techies/power-users) are blissfully unaware of the charms of XML; while those whose only answer to every data...
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VBA & JavaScript – glue languages
What have Javascript and VBA in common? Not much on the surface and their respective user bases rarely if ever overlap. What they do share are their roles as the imperative (the-if-then-else-loop-etc)...
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JavaScript 101
In a previous post I explained why I had decided to improve my JavaScript skills. The problem was finding a decent reference book as the ones I had looked at where amongst the worst technical books I...
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JavaFX – a GUI DSL
Having mastered JavaScript (OK master is too strong a word – having become comfortable with both its syntax and usage patterns) my next port of call is JavaFX the recently announced Flash/Silverlight...
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Zimki – the spirt lives on …
Although Zimki is to shut down on Christmas Eve, the ideas behind the service live on. Two new offerings, Horuku and AppJet, offer variations on the idea of hosted application development/deployment....
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xlAWS – Excel VBA Code for accessing Amazon’s S3 and SimpleDB
I’ve been using Amazon’s S3 service from within Excel for sometime now and as there are no libraries or examples for calling AWS services from VBA (or VB6) I had to roll my own. As with most things...
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xlAWS – 100,000 downloads?
Not sure, but this morning I received my monthly AWS bill, and it was double its usual amount! When I investigated the extra cost it was due to 133GBs of downloads from my www2.gobansaor.com bucket....
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Boy scratches Python…
I’ve written before about Scratch, a teaching platform developed by MIT to introduce kids to the art of programming. My son has been playing around with Scratch for over a year and although he still...
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Really Simple Systems
Organisations large and small depend on packaged software solutions for their core processes, and this is how it should be, the idea of writing your own ERP system or word processor makes no economic...
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