http://www.fictionsoft.com Random thoughts on web and software publishing Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:39:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Good stuff: "The underlying issue is that the technology or platform is not the root cause of the unacceptable productivity levels. It is the organisational culture of accepting low quality that is the cause. This cannot be helped by replacing the technology. The remedy is all about behaviour. " http://community.ative.dk/blogs/ative/archive/2007/01/29/The-Waste-of-Defects-_2D00_-Bugs-are-Stop_2D00_the_2D00_Line-Issues.aspx  http://www.fictionsoft.com/2008/08/treating-bugs-as-stop-the-line-issues/ This is an interesting article for anyone who either wants to speed up web page load times in their browser, or for those who develop web sites. http://www.die.net/musings/page_load_time/ The takeaway for those who just want to get faster surfing is to enable "pipelining" in your browser. If you're interested in the technical ... http://www.fictionsoft.com/2008/05/improving-page-load-times/ Anders Noras writes about what he calls an "embedded DSL" for some calendar components work he has been doing. ToDoComponent planningTask = Plan.ToDo("Plan project X") .StartingNow .MustBeCompletedBy("2007.08.17") ... http://www.fictionsoft.com/2007/07/fluent-interfaces-mini-dsls/ In my last post, I mentioned the fact that NSIS doesn't use XML as a reason why I preferred it over WIX. I think maybe I should explain that a little better. There seems to be a popular thought in many circles that XML is a great way to represent Domain Specific Languages. It's ... http://www.fictionsoft.com/2007/03/real-domain-specific-languages-vs-xml-pseudo-dsls/ I have to admit I wasn't really sold on WIX right from the start. But the developers who were in charge of creating our installers thought it sounded like the bees knees. What they found out a little too late is that, like a lot of things from Microsoft, it's easy to do the 80% that ... http://www.fictionsoft.com/2007/03/comparing-wix-and-nsis-installers/ Yeah, I'm what you'd call a geek. So here goes the obligatory introduction in my current native tongue: public static void main() { Console.WriteLine("Hello World!"); } :smile: http://www.fictionsoft.com/2007/03/hello-world/