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How Many Languages Do You Need to Build a Website?

Answer: > 6 I was looking at a prototype web project today. The one point that struck me was the number of languages and different technologies that were used in assembling a solution: Cleint Side - HTML for the page templates CSS for the stylesheets Read More

posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:59 PM by Troy.Magennis | 0 Comments
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Failing Gracefully - Limited Functionality Mode on Failure

I was impressed on a project a few years ago (CommSee Case Study) that the architecture allowed as much of the application to run (albeit in a limited fashion) even when the database server was in-accessible for some reason (other services relying Read More

posted Monday, December 03, 2007 4:23 AM by Troy.Magennis | 0 Comments
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Putting a price on software and system architecture

How can we put a price on or demonstrate one system architecture against a proposed (or actual) new system architecture? For instance, how can we predict in advance if a major project is going to require a reduction of increase of staff to maintain? Or Read More

posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:00 PM by Troy.Magennis | 0 Comments
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Cheat Sheets - 'Single' page reference sheets

I was reading Roy Osherove's blog on Cheat Sheets (single page reference pages for printing and keeping on your desk). One of his links pointed me towards John Sheehan's blog and list set of cheat sheets for .NET. Some of these are worth keeping handy Read More

posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:57 AM by Troy.Magennis | 1 Comments
Filed Under: Random, Tools

Numerical Recipes in C

This resource has been around for a while, but when I'm looking for an algorithm, I often find this resource the best place to start. http://www.nrbook.com/a/bookcpdf.php All the pages of the original textbook are in PDF format, and nicely divided Read More

posted Saturday, January 06, 2007 6:01 AM by Troy.Magennis | 16 Comments
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I've lost the Power

Yep, i've been living here in Bellevue, Washington which endured a strong wind-storm last Thursday night. 60-70mph winds downed a lot of trees and power lines here in the windy North West, and we have been without power for 4 days and 3 nights. Makes Read More

posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:23 AM by Troy.Magennis | 15 Comments
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BitsDuJour - One deal a day, like Woot, but for software

Found out about this site today. It might be old news, but its new to me. It is a deal a day website, much like Woot, Zazz, SteepAndCheap - but for software. http://www.bitsdujour.com. Todays deal caught my eye - its 90% off. Automise - a general purpose Read More

posted Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:28 PM by Troy.Magennis | 2 Comments
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