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Developing for yourself first
As a professional programmer for over a decade, the applications I am proud for having developed can be counted on one hand. I always wondered why. As I was thinking about it, a pattern was revealed. All these applications were developed by me in order to solve a problem that I had. What this really … Continue reading Developing for yourself first
Stackoverflow.com
I am following Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood for quite some time now. Recently Jeff announced he was working on a secret project with someone else he would not reveal. All my guesses where wrong. Today he announced they work closely with Joel in order to develop a free programmer community site. Wow! We, programmers, … Continue reading Stackoverflow.com
Regular expression online tool
I think regular expressions is something every programmer should be familiar with. I am not saying, every programmer should write three lines of regexp strings, in three seconds without a cheat sheet. I am just saying that we should all know at least that they exist and what they are useful for. The truth is, … Continue reading Regular expression online tool
How to use Ruby on Rails in your day job
Disclaimer: I am biased. A lot of noise started about the use of RoR in the enterprise. Can this be done? Technically, I don’t see a reason against it. Programmers low in a company’s food chain would have to overcome some obstacles in order to push their favorite framework into everyday use.
Greek posts moved
I have decided to keep this blog an English only blog. I have moved the most recent Greek posts to my Greek blog. Here I am going to focus more on IT related subjects.
Hello world in Flaming Thunder
I never loose a chance to search for new or different programming languages. I stumbled upon Flaming Thunder. From their site: Welcome! Flaming Thunder is a powerful new computer programming language for scientists, mathematicians and engineers, that is easy enough even for elementary school students.
Rails and Greek
Rails is great when you want to start quickly and 10 minutes later have your first web application up and running. This is because many things that are needed are pre-configured. This is true but unfortunately if you live in a part of the world where everyone speaks a weird sounding language that has characters … Continue reading Rails and Greek
Amazing MacBook Air
I want this! http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
What is 7deeds?
Hello. This is my 7deeds blog. What is 7deeds? It’s my attempt to provide 7 things to the Internet community that will all be free. I don’t know when I am going to cover all the areas. All I know is I will try to produce 7 different free services or products for the community … Continue reading What is 7deeds?