Archive for the 'Business' Category

CrossOver Chromium vs. Firefox 3 - Javascript performance results

Monday, September 15th, 2008

An interesting thing happened on my way to the web today. While reading through my RSS feeds, I came across a story about CrossOver doing a Proof of Concept port of Chromium to CX. Interesting since the mighty “g” can’t seem to get it together for Linux. I’ve already downloaded and played […]

Google App Engine — Runs on Python

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Now this is truly an interesting development. Google’s just announced App Engine is sure to super-charge the Python community and convert a number of disillusioned developers of other languages in to Pythonistas. There have been lots of interesting comments floating in the blogosphere about what this could mean.
I think it […]

Automating Checklists with nose

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Grig has an interesting post today about enforcing checklists via nose, Agile Testing: Joel on checklists  Now that is an interesting idea.  I do lots of PCI compliance testing and documenting the tests and procedures is par for the course.  Automating those procedures goes a long way in helping out in this regard. Dora, […]

Plugin Framework/Architecture

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

There is an interesting write up on plugin architecture – g :: A Simple Plugin Framework
A project that I’m working on is going to require a plugin framework for a number of things: Logic, Data Storage, Reporting and I’ve been keeping my eyes open for papers/articles on plugin frameworks.  Do you know of any resources/articles?