Microsoft has added owin support for asp.net. This is exciting since it can yield different web servers. Why is this a good thing? It could mean that it gets easier to self host a local only web server, that you can host an asp.net site in different environments.

Looks like materialized views are coming to postgres :).

Whats good about spreadsheets? Spreadsheet applications offers a lot of usability. The concept of using a grid of variables that are easy to reference is a surprisingly powerful  concept. Many applications can be prototyped in spread sheet applications. I use google drive in order to have a powerful and flexible time reporting solution. I quickly realized that in order to have a software that exceeds these benefits, I would have to spend a lot of time writing it. What can be improved? A few days ago I [...]

Whats good about spreadsheets? Spreadsheet applications offers a lot of usability. The concept of using a grid of variables that are easy to reference is a surprisingly powerful  concept. Many applications can be prototyped in spread sheet applications. I use google drive in order to have a powerful and flexible time reporting solution. I quickly realized that in order to have a software that exceeds these benefits, I would have to spend a lot of time writing it. What can be improved? A few days ago I [...]

We have written a lot of ruby code in the project I’m currently working in. There is a lot of code to help manage, build and schedule the program. We started out simple enough. Just one folder with helper scripts. After 2 years we have built up support for a wide variety of tasks. Command line tools We have used and abused $:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) and similar constructs far to much. This makes it hard to get a good overview of dependencies between files. In order to get islands of related code [...]