Posts Tagged ‘ F/OSS ’

Rails + Merb = Rails 3

I’m rather excited about this. Saw this talk right here. Oh, and then there’s this. [ READ MORE ]

Neato article about NoSQL on Ars Technica

I am very excited by some of the NoSQL stuff out there and enjoyed a recent Ars Technica article. The first page is some neat background and the second page has a good overview of some NoSQL options out there. http://arstechnica.com/business/data-centers/2010/02/-since-the-rise-of.ars/ [ READ MORE ]

Cool Free/Open Source Software from Google

As has been spoken about endlessly (OStatic, OSnews), there is a great blog post from 0×1fff with many (started at 35, is now many more) open source projects from Google. In fact and indeed, there is some cool stuff on there. I knew about Caja and Protocol Buffers (wish there was a JS port of [ READ MORE ]

ES5 is finally here, JavaScript geeks rejoice!

So, earlier this week, it was announced that ECMAScript 5 has finally been released. This is a good thing and I caught the highlights on InfoQ. The full draft is a 252 page PDF  beast of a document which covers basically about everything there is to cover. The things which strike me as interesting are [ READ MORE ]

Messing with OpenStreetMap

Some people might not see the reason for a project like OpenStreetMap when there are plenty of good mapping products and services laying around. I am not one of them. Whenever I use a GPS, I think quite a bit about it’s inner workings. How does it figure out which route is best? How does [ READ MORE ]

Data visualization on a web page

Quickie: Two of my favorite ways to get data visualized on a web page are the Google Chart API and flot, the amazing canvas-based plotting library built on top of jQuery. The Google Chart API provides a rediculously clever way to get high-quality information graphics which are generated on the back of the clearly-amazing Google infrastructure. [ READ MORE ]

Podcasts I now listen to

I commute to work. Unfortunately, there is no way to carpool so I end up driving about 80 miles a day alone. Still, I drive a very fuel-efficient Honda Fit and try not to feel too guilty about the fuel consumption considering that I use very little. So, with all that time spent on the [ READ MORE ]

Fun with case classes in Scala

Recently, I have been messing around with the Scala programming language. In particular, I am seriously considering purchasing the Lift Book (buy it for me and I’ll cook you something) because the Lift framework itself is so neat.  Though I’d like to see a few small features added to the language, I am very impressed [ READ MORE ]

Talks I am willing to give

The following are possible talks I am willing to give at a future SCOSUG meeting. Emacs concurrency (or lack thereof) XSLT for fun and profit Programming with distributed objects in Ruby Unit testing JavaScript That is all. [ READ MORE ]

The trouble with USE

Today, I was caught a little off-guard by a question regarding the USE directive in SQL. While, it stumped me, it did give me pause to think. First and foremost, it occurred to me that part of the reason that I was caught off-guard was because, in the past, I’ve been advised to stay away [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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