I was looking for a way to alternate table row colors with Ruby on Rails and stumbled across this gem. All you have to do is use the cycle method on the TextHelper. <%- for item in @items do -%...

I had installed Windows Vista RC2 a while back, and just recently (over the weekend) installed the RTM version of Vista on my work laptop (a Dell D820). One thing that has been driving me bonkers ...

I could have swore that I blogged these tools a while back, but could not find any record of it, so here goes. Again, I found myself locked out of a terminal server here at work, seems some sessio...

After installing the Vista RTM, I wanted to replace Notepad with Notepad2, as I find this to be a much more powerful editor. It’s much more geared towards programmers, with built-in syntax highligh...

I dont know how many times I end up writing code that iterates over a set of .dll files and looks for classes that implement a given interface. I think that just now, I wrote this for the last tim...

37signals.com, the makers of popular collaboration and personal organization software, BaseCamp and BackPack have made their Getting Real book available for free online. You can still buy a PDF or ...

Once in a while, an absolutely brilliant post comes along. This is the type of post that you just cant add anything to, and the kind that you end up referring to and re-reading a few times to make ...

We’ve been diligently using Fitnesse for the past year or so to document and automate our acceptance tests. For the most part, this has been an inefficient process. Let me clarify a little… I’m no...

Last night, we were at a tribute to John Vlissides, who passed away last year after a long struggle with complications caused by a brain tumour. At the tribute were Ralph Johnson and Erich Gamma. R...

Yesterday, I was able to take in Robert (“Uncle Bob”) Martin’s talk at the OOPSLA Educator’s Symposium. He allowed the audience to choose the topic. Choices were ‘Clean Code’ and ‘Principles of OOD...