I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.

In the article pointed out, the quite dead Chandler project is compared to the multi-billion Eclipse project. And then a too easy analysis is done against dynamic languages, where Java is the …

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This is the sad true: parsing is boring. And writing parser is even worst.

If you can choose a scripting language for parsing you can think to do it in perl.

For this way, take a big breath and go in the black sea  of perl's funny regexp. They are funny only if you have that special love for the regular …

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Let the Zend Framework introduce itself as a Borg would do: 

"Hi dear RubyOnRails. Hi all. I am the Zend Framework, a small work (about  5 tons of code) done by IBM and Zend to destroy you. You think php is not able to build big project?... do you?
So you have dared to develop RubyOnRails or Perl or …

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Use the sed -i command

sed -i.BAK 's|foo|bar|g' files # -i does in-place replacement
perl -pi.bak -e 's|foo|bar|g' files                # or
perl -pi.bak -e 's|foo|bar|g' `find /pathname -name "filespec"`

Perl is the preferred way, but on some production system you must use the old good sed. For some tips on sed take a …

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The trends of this october are about some upcoming products. A clear analisys of <a href="http://www.roughlydrafted.com/Sept05.Quark.html"

QuarkXPress failure si sketched in roughlydrafted site. I do not think the same consideration can be applied to Vista.
As Joel said, M$ can throw away much money …
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BWolf version 1.1 has been relased!

I am happy to announce to all the world I have just relased the first stable release of BWolf.

 

You can find it here.
You need to set up a settings_private.py for properly defining a secret cookie key. Happy (book) reading ;)
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