After talking to a few of my colleges I’m thinking of the different kind of programmers needed for different projects, for different aspects of projects. Duct tape programmer:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html Writing code that ships. Does not necessarily need to look clean. Will probably not write any unit-tests. No fancy abstractions, no patterns or anything. Maintenance programmer:http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/06/the-noble-art-of-maintenance-programming.html Have had every so[...]

After listening to a podcast from hanselminutes I started thinking about the possibility of a google app engine like service for .net: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee677170.aspx

Finished upgrading an old site to use dojo and codeignite. In order to simplify things I added the RTE editor in order to simplify the code. There is no need to add logic related to the content on the page so html-content is preferable. excerpt from the content/editor.js: dojo.require("dijit.Editor"); dojo.require("dijit.form.TextBox"); dojo.require("dijit._editor.plugins.FontChoice"); dojo.require("dijit._editor.plugins.LinkDialog"); dojo.addOnLoad(function(){ dijit.byId('bodyeditor').setValue(dojo.[...]

Finished upgrading an old site to use dojo and codeignite. In order to simplify things I added the RTE editor in order to simplify the code. There is no need to add logic related to the content on the page so html-content is preferable. excerpt from the content/editor.js: dojo.require("dijit.Editor"); dojo.require("dijit.form.TextBox"); dojo.require("dijit._editor.plugins.FontChoice"); dojo.require("dijit._editor.plugins.LinkDialog"); dojo.addOnLoad(function(){ dijit.byId('bodyeditor').setV[...]

Ever since I heard of the NoRM driver for MongoDB I had to try my hands on it. You can find it here: NoRM , mongodb The first thing is setting up the server. I dropped the binaries into C:\\MongoDb\\ Next thing I created two batch files. To start the db: start.bat C:\\MongoDb\\bin\\mongod.exe --dbpath C:\\MongoDb\\data --port 27000 --logpath C:\\MongoDb\\log\\mongodb.log --logappend The other to access the mongo shell: shell.bat C:\MongoDb\bin\mongo.exe –port 27000 Next thing is creating a simple a[...]