Achieve your goals by doing less
Yep, sounds very counter-intuitive. As far back as I can remember, I’ve always thought that in order to succeed you had to be ambitious and work harder than anyone else. But lately, I’ve been discovering, after reading a number of great posts like this one that the problem is that you can be very ambitious [...]
The State of Web Development
I came across this article from NetTuts+ about the Tools of the Trade: Web Development Frameworks that the Pros use. A fairly exhaustive list! I’m starting to see why a lot of people are just overwhelmed with getting into web development; what do you learn first? There’s so much stuff out there. Add the list [...]
Testing websites with Internet Explorer
Testing web sites with different versions of Internet Explorer has always been a bit painful. Sure you can use different machines, or virtual machines, but that all takes time. However, there’s a tool to take care of testing IE versions 5.5,6,7 and 8: IETester. Its free for private/commercial use, however for commercial use you should [...]
Solve the problem at hand
Recently, I’ve had a bit of a paradigm shift in the way I think about software development. Essentially, that shift is to only focus on solving the problem at hand and not to write additional code just in case it might be needed. Credit for this comes from the excellent RailsTips article, Just in Time, [...]
Copying very large files across a LAN network
I needed to copy a very large file (~25GB), a virtual machine disk across a network (LAN). Standard Windows copy isn’t great for this, and it kept on getting stuck. I also tried using the copy/xcopy commands but they weren’t much help. The problem was a matter of feedback and recovery. That is, having the [...]