Gordon’s Place

While I don’t really want to turn this into a linkblog style site, I find myself posting my second link of the night. This article by Gregor Hohpe contains a great analogy for distributed, loosely coupled systems which is close to home for me ATM since I’m currently working out the architecture for just such [...]

Remember pre GUI Progress and the great little 10 minute demos you used to be able to hack up against the sports database? You know, a choose statement for a menu and then a bunch of little 4 line programs line –

repeat:
insert customer
with 2 col 1 down centered title “Customer Details”.
end.

If you do, then you [...]

The presentations from this year’s Exchange event are on-line and freely available. There’s loads of good stuff there if you can spend some time digging through the powerpoints. Two, in particular, give some sneak peaks into what’s coming along with the next, Eclipse based version of the IDE. I’ve grabbed some of the screenshots out [...]

One of the most popular groups on flickr is the squared circle group where anyone can post pictures which meet a couple of simple requirements – they are square and they bound a circular object. Krazydad’s written some scripts which use the flickr API to extract pictures from this group which have an appropriate Creative [...]

My mate Ian has just released the first beta of his new application – Case Detective for FogBugz. If you’re a FogBugz user and you’ve ever been frustrated by it’s ( lack of ) reporting functionality, then you should check out Case Detective. It fits the niche perfectly, but since there’s a free trial period [...]