My colleague Niklas Lindström has put together a list of programming languages for cineasts. Ruby is Jackie Chan which, I guess, is a pretty much spot on: asian, agile, get things done but with poor support for european languages. Java is Richard Gere which pretty much says it all. His complexion is in decay from being in the Sun for too long…
Here is a cool thing which I didn’t hear of until today. Amazon provides a service where you can upload a machine image (think VMWare), deploy it to as many instances you need and pay Amazon 10 cents for every hour you use it and 20 cents for each Gb data transfer. This will allow you to instantly scale an application if your demand temporarily increases. With the risk of sounding like an Amazon marketing droid here are some highlights of what you get for those 10 cents:...
When I studied social antropology a couple of years ago I never thought that it would influence my future programming endeavours. At that time we looked at theories on how things in our surroundings influence thought processes. One theory is called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It states: “…there is a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it....
PAAKT is a Pyhon module with which you can analyze accessibility in web pages. This release is to enable testing of real web pages (instead of the fake ones in the unit tests). For details see the PAAKT project page.
Selenium (by Thoughtworks) is on open source tool for automated functional tests. It’s simplicity makes it an excellent candidate for introducing automated functional testing in your project. (Hi! This article is now several years old and updates may have changed how Selenium works) Setting it up for an ASP.NET application is done in a few simple steps: Download Selenium (choose the full install). Create a folder “selenium” in your web site root folder....
An update to make Fangs compatible with Firefox 1.5 is in the works. It almost works, but Firefox 1.5 broke the default setting for how developers can access the document object in javascript. I will try to update it as soon as possible. Thank you for all the encouraging emails.