Archive for the 'coding' Category
Here is a great resource for using launchd to automatically start tomcat on your OS X machine.
Since I started using Google Spreadsheets I have started to think about other hosted applications … I have used salesforce.com for true CRM before, but what I hadn’t explored was their force.com platform for creating totally custom applications. They call it a “platform as a service” … I am intrigued and as such I created a developer [...]
The tag line for Sun is slowly coming true on many fronts. There are larger scale applications like Salesforce.com and then niche applications from vendors solving very specific business needs. Just yesterday I started looking at a company that provides “Performance Reporting” for money managers called Black Diamond Reporting. A fully hosted online web-based platform for aggregating and [...]
I started using Basecamp for work and it’s great. Simple and useful … I share information with colleagues and our outside service providers. I love being able to post documents, ideas, articles, etc …
I have also integrated some Google Spreadsheets of our futures and stock positions using iframes … very very [...]
Despite the fact that TradeStation doesn’t run on the Mac, I have really grown to love their platform for strategy backtesting and the incredible flexibility of being able to write Easy Language code to do just about anything… I am using it to do short-term trend following based on 10 Minute bars … For [...]
I am actually using this quite a bit now … Since it’s very rare that my phone isn’t connected to the wireless network (only won’t be on airplanes). It’s working out well. I have a work list and a personal list always open via a “tab” in Safari on my iPhone.
Keystrokes … hit [...]
I had a strange problem today where my field validation was working, but the standard red error box and red field highlighting was not working.
I have an application that does mailings of PDF files. I have a model called “mailing” and a model called “contact”. I also have a “subscription” model to [...]
It will be interesting to see how well they do with their AJAX product, TIBCO General Interface, now that they have offered developers “with an open source licensing option.”
I have had the pleasure of using TIBCO’s products in the past. In particular TIBCO BusinessWorks™. I wish TIBCO would embrace a more [...]
Google launched a new specific search called Google Code Search … I have only done one test search for “ActionMailer attachments” … (I recently built a Ruby on Rails application that sends emails with attachments).
Many of the results are simply showing the ActionMailer library (i.e. rails/vendor/rails/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb) … It appears to point to samples that [...]
