Category Archives: open source

Spread Firefox!

Tomorrow, the Mozilla foundation is releasing the latest version of the Firefox browser. While they are at it they are also trying to set a record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period. If you aren’t using Firefox tomorrow would be a great time to try it, it really is [...]
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jonezy.org.BackpackAPI

Is the reason why I haven’t been posting here, I’m working on building a c# wrapper for the 37 Signals Backpack API. Nothing terribly exciting yet (I’m basically just implementing the services per the api docs). I’m hosting this at Google Code and this will be an open source project. I’m also [...]
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web application testing in ruby

i have been looking for an excuse to try writing some ruby code for a while now and I just stumbled on Watir (web application testing in ruby) which seems to be a pretty good place to start.  I can apply it to work related tasks (automate some of the more boring and repetitive tasks [...]
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other opinions about the joel vs dhh debate

When Did High Tech Become High School? Typical Enterprise Impasse Svec on Joel on Software on Language Wars
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open source website(s)

Waferbaby has just gone open source I have been reading the site for a bunch of years and did spend a period of time in touch with the guy that runs the site (which is pretty hard when you are in canada and they are in australia). It’s a really cool idea to give back to the [...]
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FYI

Vanilla 1.0 will be out soon… go and get it! also i have an install of it running at http://jonezy.org/vanilla/ if you wanna have a look
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