A few weeks ago I wrote a small app that fetches JSON documents from app.net’s API and draws a word cloud. At first I wasn’t keeping the content around after generating the images. Later I thought of other things I’d like to do with the documents, so I decided to start storing them.
Meeting A Troll...I'm back on Twitter. I can imagine the cries of 'I knew he wouldn't last!' from the Twitterati. But give me a few minutes of your time and I'll tell you why I'm back and the real truth about exactly why I left in the first place.
It's 2012 and your kids have an iPhone - Do you know where they are? I do.There were lots of reactions to my blog post Everything's broken and nobody's upset. Some folks immediately got the Louis CK "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy" reference. Some folks thought it was a poorly worded rant.
Limiting your abstractionsIt’s been almost 3 years since I first wrote about moving away from the Repository abstraction. Since then, I’ve gone more or less full-bore without any concept of a repository in the systems I’ve built.
Making Instant C# Viable – VisualizationI’ve spent a lot of time talking about how to actually make it work, but the internals could be perfect and the project would be worthless without a viable way to visualize the information. In Bret and I’s original prototypes, everything is simply dumped to text next to the code.
How To Ask Questions The Smart WayMany project websites link to this document in their sections on how to get help. That's fine, it's the use we intended — but if you are a webmaster creating such a link for your project page, please display prominently near the link notice that we are not a help desk for your project!
How It Works 2 : Plastic How It Workshttp://evbal.blogspot.com
content : IEEECSI have now been a professional researcher in software engineering for roughly 20 years. Throughout that time, I've worked at universities and in research institutes and collaborated on research projects with 30-odd private companies and public institutions.
Making non-coders codeI spent a decade working as a technology professional in public media. One of the themes that was often repeated was that everybody - no matter their role - was “in fundraising”.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.