http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton I'm driven by an insatiable curiosity and a low boredom threshold. Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:18:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Development continues apace on our new application, Bamboo. What is Bamboo? It's a web app which aims to provide support for lightweight business processes for agile organisations. Pretty much all organisations, no matter how small, evenutally reach a point where they need basic processes to manage things. With Bamboo, we ... http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2008/09/30/bamboo/ So this week we took the plunge and started developing our first Ruby on Rails application. As long-time Java developers this was a big step, and I have to admit to being very happy. I've been avoiding RoR for a long time, mainly because of being put off by the ... http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2008/09/26/first-week-with-ruby-on-rails/ I just bought a Drobo to make use of a bunch of old drives I have lying around. I'm a big fan of redundant storage systems but my recent experiences of using an Apple RAID card in my MacPro have been less than satisfactory. The performance was not as good ... http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2008/07/08/drobo-it-just-works/ I've just copied my system drive over to a new hard disk and re-booted from the new image and suddenly Eclipse will no longer start up. With some experimenting, I've found that using -Xmx768M was causing the problem. If I reduce this to -Xmx512M then it runs just fine. The thing ... http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2008/03/28/funny-goings-on-with-eclipse-on-leopard/ Just been listening to the March 14th newscast from the JavaPosse where they spend a lot of, very interesting, time talking about the new SDK on the iPhone and the apparent restrictions in the terms and conditions which prevent people from distributing apps which run on a VM. This would ... http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2008/03/17/java-on-the-iphone/ Given my rants about the customer service, or lack of it, I received from Orange back in 2006 when I made the mistake of taking up their broadband service, I thought I might redress the balance a bit by singing the praises of two companies I have dealt with, one ... http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2008/02/27/anti-oranges/ I'm a FogBugz user. I think it's a great bug-tracking system. So much so that I paid money for it rather than opting for BugZilla. It looks like it's about to get even better with the new version 6 release. One of the key new features is Evidence-Based Scheduling. Joel has ... http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2007/10/27/joel-re-invents-the-xp-planning-game-calls-it-evidence-based-scheduling/ A post by Fake Steve Jobs led me to Jason D. O'Grady over at ZDNet who has blogged about how much he hates the new Apple keyboards. I bought one when they came out to try it out and since then I have replaced they keyboards on all my Macs ... http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2007/09/24/the-new-apple-keyboards-love-em-or-hate-em/ Well, they've finally reaped the full value of their actions. SCO have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 5 years after making claims that Linux violated their patents because of code supplied by IBM. They never produced any evidence in court of the violations and carried out a cynical campaign ... http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2007/09/17/sco-file-for-chapter-11/ This week alone I have coded in Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Flex, Actionscript, Antlr and a domain-specific-language of my own that describes optimizations in ASTs, not to mention a variety of XML document formats. The syntax gets very confused after a while :-) http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2007/09/06/too-many-languages/