Not only is it possible, but I spend most of my time every week doing this for our Webapper customers. As we all know, businesses and their supporting web applications are constantly changing and adapting. With any luck, change is in the direction of growth, and adaptation simply becomes a component necessary to keep up [...]

Introduction SeeDSN is utility that I’ve been using internally with our SeeFusion customers for years in order to assist with configuring JDBC wrapped datasources that can be monitored via SeeFusion.  The utility was originally developed for Webapper by Daryl Banttari, but it was never officially released to the public – until today.  Recently I was on [...]

A few years ago, we tried out Axosoft’s OnTime ticket managment/bug tracker. At the time, we were impressed. You can read the full details of my review here. After using it for a couple weeks, I hooked up the “BUGTRAQ” keyword in TortoiseSVN to enable us to have bi-directional links between SVN and OnTime. I [...]

In Windows, the Explorer window shows the full path of the folder in the address bar. It’s very handy if you’re moving files around with multiple Explorer windows open. It’s also very handy to know if you’re in the right folder named if multiple folders share the same name. (Like “bin”.) But in Mac OS X, [...]

A friend pinged me on IM today with some questions about Subversion and instead of just answering him directly, I thought it might be helpful to answer him here, and solicit feedback from others. 1. How easy is it to set up? Is any additional software needed? (E.g. Apache) Subversion is very easy to set up. The [...]

My CFUnited presentation went very well – the room was pretty full and I had a bunch of great questions from the audience. If you were there, thank you for showing up! Here are the materials: Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications.zip, a zip-up of the PowerPoint presentation. It’s 144 slides and about a 14 MB [...]

Here’s another section from my presentation at CFUnited: // This segues into the question of what to do when the customer needs an “estimate” or requires a “fixed bid”? I think I just answered that one – you write a thorough spec doc, break it down into tasks and provide an estimate based on your anticipated schedule. [...]

I’ve been working on my CFUnited presentation titled “Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications” and want to publish another teaser that might make it into the final version. This is raw, rough, uncut and unedited so beware. // What About Data-Centric Applications? Early in the project, you need to determine whether this is a data- centric [...]

I’ve been working on my CFUnited presentation titled “Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications” and thought I’d publish a teaser that might make it into the final version. This is raw, rough, uncut and unedited so beware. // Sometimes, a client knows what they want in the end, but really truly can’t tell you all the [...]

This Christmas, Webapper was kind enough to shower us each with a Nabaztag/tag wifi rabbit. If you haven’t seen these things yet, they’re pretty neat… It’s got an API (along with prebuilt services) that you can call to make it do various things, like move it’s ears, light up, and speak. Now, the API looks quite [...]