http://www.warneronstine.com Where technology and art disappear Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:05:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We actually released this to the Grails plugin repository last week but haven't had time to blog about this release. There's a lot of good stuff in this release, some bug fixes and some new features. Before we dive into the new features there is a short how-to on the wiki. ... http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/11/16/gorm-couchdb-grails-plugin-release-0-3/ Ok, here is week 2 as promised of my "30 Day Experiment with Pomodoro" (Part 1 - Why I'm doing this, Part 2 - Week 1 recap). This covers Friday, Oct. 30th - Thursday, Nov. 5th. First, I want to say that I am really enjoying Pomodoro, because I feel like ... http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/11/08/30-day-experiment-with-pomodoro-week-2/ I promised I'd update everyone with my progress using the Pomodoro Technique, so here it is. This reporting covers the period from last Friday, Oct. 23rd, to Thursday, Oct. 29th. It's hard for me to see any patterns yet as it's only been a week, but I'm posting up my ... http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/11/01/30-day-experiment-with-pomodoro-week-1/ First we had NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), then NaNoDrawMo (National Novel Drawing Month), now we have PragProWriMo (Writing a Tech Book for the month of November - named after Pragmatic Programmers, a tech publisher). So, I thought I'd share a few writing tips for those of you attempting to write ... http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/11/01/writing-tips-for-pragprowrimo/ Since I've done a lot of this over the years, I thought I would share with you my experience in evaluating and picking Open Source projects to use inside closed-source companies. (It may very well be different at companies that Open Source their own stuff - I don't know.) This ... http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/10/29/how-to-tell-if-an-open-source-project-is-viable-right-now-for-use-in-your-project/ I decided to try out the Pomodoro Technique after hearing various people mention it (can't remember who first mentioned it - maybe Peldi from Balsamiq?) and I just recently saw the book announced on Pragmatic Programmers. Last Thursday I finally sat down and read the free PDF book on the ... http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/10/25/30-day-experiment-with-pomodoro/ This post was inspired by "The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer" post on Voyce.com. Your Web UI consists solely of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) screens - no matter how complex the user interaction is, it can always be boiled down to CRUD. Right? Everything is in Times ... http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/10/22/6-signs-your-web-ui-was-created-by-a-programmer/ Well, crazy or not I actually (somehow) convinced someone to help me out. And boy did he help! I got some of the basics going and then Cory took off with them. He's put a lot into this plugin and for that I wanted to publicly thank him. Now, onto the ... http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/10/21/here-comes-gorm-couchdb-plugin-for-grails/ Posted via email from BlackBox Post http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/09/17/want-very-nice-drawing-app-for-the-iphone/ 3D drawing with a pen, you have to watch it to believe it, very slick indeed. Posted via web from BlackBox Post http://www.warneronstine.com/2009/09/17/very-frickin-cool/