September 2009

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  Chris’ Brain – Almost October 2009 Edition

  09.24.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Can you tell I have nothing earth-shattering to talk about? Here are the two things taken up processing space in my brain
  I won’t use frameworks without built-in testing support any more

  I’m doing some very hairy refactoring of code at work to support a new concept of ownership of content generated by the application. [...]

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  Open Source Is Really About Documentation – Twisted vs. Tornado

  09.14.09 | Permalink | 27 Comments

  I think I can give you an executive summary of this blog post: if the documentation for an open source project sucks, nobody but the most hardcore developers will use it.

  What has prompted this incredibly brilliant stating-of-the-obvious? The reaction by those in the Twisted community over Facebook’s pre-emptive strike in the non-blocking Python-based [...]

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  Lazyweb Help: Busting out of frames

  09.10.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Normally I don't ask for time-sensitive help on my blog, but since my readers are such gracious bunch I thought I could count on them to help me out.

  I have a site for work that uses frames. Oh yeah, it's CakePHP application. Frames are not my favourite thing in the world, but they [...]

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  What’s In Chris’ Brain – September 2009 Edition

  09.04.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  I've been feeling a little blogged-out lately, as work is ramping up on a project with some critical milestones to be met, and the stress of getting my basement lair all renovated for occupation after Labour Day. But the mind never stops working. Here's two big things that have been occupying my thoughts:

  The [...]

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Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right?

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