Recently I was tasked with stabilizing an old Windows Forms app written in Visual Basic 6. VB6 was a great language for simple applications in its heyday, but now that the .NET Framework is 10 years old and new PCs all have 64-bit CPUs, it’s high time for an upgrade. Fortunately, all versions of Visual … Read more
App.net, a new microblogging service similar to Twitter, but without advertising, has been funded and is active in alpha currently for those who contributed to its initial funding. Check out alpha.app.net to see the Global feed. My address is alpha.app.net/deepinthecode.
I just published my first Ruby on Rails (RoR) application onto my development server – my MacBook Pro. Learning RoR should prove to be interesting, as the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern is automatically used when setting up the application. This first app is no more than the equivalent of the “Hello, World” app in some … Read more