Articles published in 2010

I’ve started thinking about it after I read this article and this tweet got me going for a couple of days: “My whole life I’ve been fighting entropy, maybe it’s time I stop fighting” by @stevenbristol . I love stuff like this, makes me ponder on what would be the best way one could choose and what would the solution ...

Needless to say, I’m an avid user of Firebug , let’s face it: without it, web development would suck big time, yes we do have other variants but firebug remains the status quo, for me at least. Yet this is not an article about how to develop web apps with Firebug, no, is an article about how one can use it to have a ...

Yes, I’ve attended one more conference Programatica 2010 , this one was axed on programming. It started with some interesting to not so interesting presentations of the partners. What I’ve loved about them, was that they contrasted each-other pretty nicely to a point when it was actually funny. I’ve observed something ...

I love optimizing stuff, sometimes I even break the rule (when I have time) and optimize just for the sheer fun of it. I’ve been using on my blog RequireJS for some time but the last days I’ve rewritten the whole init script to use LABjs “Why would I do such heresy ?” Well, mostly because I din’t liked the way RequireJS ...

I’m really starting to get fed up with this useless separation. (Warning: strong personal opinions, based on arguments fallowing). Ok, it’s not useless, I get the idea in a big team, separation of concerns, better productivity and all that. That’s good and I’m all for that, makes things faster (in the big picture at ...

Sadly, today I’ve arrived a bit late, where "a bit" means a lot; I’vevolatile and utopic place most of the time. In very few domains you can take an idea and with small or no resources (money) and bring it alive and running. I mean, actually thinking about it, how can’t that be exciting ?! Having an idea and turning ...

Just got in Bucharest, tomorrow I’ll be at How to Web 2010 . Hope it’s going to be good, the presentations look juicy. I hope I’ll meet some inspiring people and hopefully something to burst some new ideas or perspectives about the web. All in all, its not such a simple subject like: "oh, so you do web stuff ? isn’t ...

I’ll keep this short: firstly I’ve downloaded the ruby windows installer from here , at the time of writing the version was _1.9.2-p0. _The problem with this one is that ruby crashes into oblivion from time to time (mostly after lots of page refreshes); after a googler search I’ve found out it’s a windows bug (yeah on ...

From time to time I like to optimize a bit my Windows machine, yet mostly all I do is fine tunning, nothing really spectacular. This time while I was browsing the net and thinking about one of my old nags (browser performance loading several tabs, to more exact: Firefox loading up 20+ tabs) I realized something really ...

Yes, building a blog cms in rails is apparently very simple, well to be true it’s simple if you want something really limited like a post model, a couple of static pages, controllers and one for the contact form and you’re settled. Actually for something like this one can use Sinatra (not to say that Sinatra is better ...