It’s been six years since I switched from HomeSite to Eclipse+CFEclipse as my primary ColdFusion development environment. At the time, my switch was primarily driven by my switch to Mac for development, but the desire for integrated support for version control (e.g. Subversion) directly within in the IDE helped with Read more »
Category Archives: Software Development
WordPress Plugins for the Personal Web
The first thing I looked for after successfully migrating my old blog content to WordPress was some new plugins. The plugin ecosystem for WordPress has always impressed me with it’s diversity and range. The first two plugins I installed have actually changed the way I think a little bit about Read more »
Speaking tonight on the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web has been a strong interest of mine over the last two years. When I came across RDF and OWL through a research project at IST back in 2008, a Web Standard no less, I’d somehow been completely oblivious to its existence. If you’ve never heard of the Read more »
A Cloak of Accessibility
If you regularly run your browser with JavaScript support disabled like I do, you’ll occasionally run into a Web site that completely fails to operate, especially among so-called Web 2.0 sites. I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but Twitter.com is not the most accessible site on the Web. I Read more »
Building an RIA through Collaborative Design and Prototyping : Preamble
We’re in the midst of building an interesting Rich Internet Application for educational assessment using Flex. We’ve had a lot of success with our process thus far, so I thought it would be helpful to document it as a means of discussing it and maybe improving it for our next Read more »
Unit Testing and Subversion – Where should I put the test classes?
I’m starting a strong push to institute Unit Testing in a relatively new project; I figure it will be easier to really get into the habits in a new project from the start, rather than trying to steer some of our ancient existing projects in that direction right away. But Read more »
Advice for jumping into Java Web Services?
So I’ve landed on a new project. We’ve been asked to port a well-studied scientific algorithm into a Web Service, hoping to link the calculated results into a networked client for visualization (likely Google Earth). Now, porting the algorithm (from MATLAB) should be relatively straightforward. What I’m unsure about is Read more »
A day of software best practices
Dating back to my days as a consultant in the waning hours of the dotcom era, there were two truths I came to view as fundamental: 1) Once you get to a certain point in your development as a programmer, the actual functioning of software ceases to be a mystery. Read more »