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A bunch of miscellaneous stuff: I don't recall who put me onto this, but I'm enjoying Jessica Hagy's amusing/insightful diagrams over at indexed I've been impressed by the WPF-based reader that Conchango have put together for the Daily Mail newspaper Read More
posted Monday, March 05, 2007 12:51 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Idea of the day #3: Developing software with Alf, Bert and Charlie

Well, it's been rather a long time since the previous installment in this mini-series - almost two-and-a-half years in fact - so I hope this one is worth the wait... In the project I've been working on I've struggled with naming components. People either Read More
posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:09 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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SlickRun to Windows Desktop Search shortcut converter

As well as changing my 'blogging setup I've also switched from Google Desktop Search to WDS, for a trial period at least. As WDS has shortcuts it seemed like an opportunity to have one less process running by importing my SlickRun shortcuts. As I Read More
posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:47 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Handy little XML/XSLT app

I've been doing a little XSLT recently (more on why another time...) and came across this handy little (free) Windows app: http://www.xmlcooktop.com/ Enjoy! Read More
posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:03 PM by pdbartlett | 650 Comments
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Ruby Tuesday

Quite a few interesting, Ruby-related posts today, so I couldn't resist:- John Lam has a new drop of RubyCLR (now hosted on RubyForge)- beta version of Ruby compiler for .NET (also via John Lam)- Martin Fowler brings us RubyPloticusEnjoy! Read More
posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:21 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Trying again with Ruby

A colleague of mine has been using Watir and needed to retry evaluating an expression a number of times until it works (I'm sure IE::wait should be taking care of things, but apparently not in this case). What he came up with was fully functional, but Read More
posted Monday, May 08, 2006 2:51 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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VS Express Editions now free - permanently

This is old news by now, but I had to post about it anyway. This is an extension of the previous offer which only lasted a year.Check out Dan Fernandez's post for more details, not just about pricing (or lack of it) but other stuff too... Read More
posted Monday, April 24, 2006 10:24 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Watir goodness

As Scott Hanselman has been so enthusiastic about Watir (Web Application Testing In Ruby) I thought I ought to give it a try, and have been mighty impressed. It basically allows you to "drive" IE and then query the DOM to check that all is well. Bonuses Read More
posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:08 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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SWiK - the Open Software Wiki

A while back I mentioned MyProgs, which I described as "del.icio.us for software", but haven't really looked at much since. Now I've discovered SWiK which in addition to being a wiki has tagging support. Looks interesting... Read More
posted Monday, March 20, 2006 8:06 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Capability Im-Maturity Model (CIMM)

Saw this via EricGu (originally from The Daily WTF).If you read/skim/scroll right down to the bottom, though, the author is described thusly:Capt. Thomas M. Schorsch is a full-time doctorate student at The Air Force Institute of Technology at Read More
posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:19 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Best of Barty!

Or more realistically: "15 posts which sucked a bit less"...Optimizing coding as well as codeA spoonful of sugar...Cliches, or Management Patterns?On techinical blogging...FlexWiki and Doxygen/NDocLoaded (as in gun) questionsResurrection is not ALWAYS Read More
posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:37 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Get REALbasic Standard Edition for free!

The Windows version is now available for free as part of a special offer (it says to Delphi users only, but doesn't seem to check...). The Linux version is apparently always free.UPDATE: Apologies Mike, I inadvertently forgot to credit your ever-useful Read More
posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:35 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Walking in a Web 2.0 wonderland

Jason over at 37signals has posted the question "What's making money and how much?".Well personally I'm not sure, but the post does include a link to Emily Chang's eHub, where already I've come across SuprGlu (my page here), and I'm sure there's other Read More
posted Friday, December 02, 2005 3:15 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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rest2web and code samples

I know I've posted about rest2web twice recently (here and here), but the more I use it the more I like it! I've implemented a plug-in to display syntax-highlighted code listings (with GeSHi), and used it to "publish" some various bits of sample code, Read More
posted Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:31 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Testlets, unit tests and INSULTs

This is NOT about Microsoft's alleged attempt at redefining TDD, so if that's been done to death as far as you're concerned (and I'm purposely not taking a stance on this) then you can read on in safety... There seem to be two common definitions Read More
posted Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:15 PM by pdbartlett | 10 Comments
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