The core Ruby on Rails development team uses TextMate, a MacOSX (only) programming text editor that is apparently the greatest thing ever. A quick Google search reveals countless blog and

Not long ago, I started work on a project that we decided would build on top of an existing application instead of reinventing the wheel ourselves. Its something I've done

Although it may not look like it at first, this is intended to be the second in a series about implementing a tagging application in DJango. Part of my motivation

Recognizing the importance of consistently implementing persistent identifiers (PIDs), a group of librarians at Cornell University evaluated several PID strategies and chose to implement the Handle System. As a member

As someone relatively new to Ruby on Rails, I managed to confuse myself on one of my Rails projects recently when I decided to follow some very logical advice in

introductionI posted an announcement to the django-users list about the django-restful-model-views contribution to get some feedback on the approach. The main responder, Malcolm Tredinnick, gave me a lot to think

A co-worker of mine recently recommended an interesting book: The One-Page Project Manager by Clark A. Campbell. My initial reaction was that it sounded like a gimmicky book, but she

Today, I uploaded a minor update to ZoomifyImage on SourceForge. Here is the changelog for this release: 10/21/2009 Added version 4 Zoomifyer viewer and new licence. Added contribution by Fran

My employer, Cornell University Library (CUL), hosts a few dozen departmental and staff blogs that I help support. These blogs are primarily meant to be read internally, and I felt

The biggest drain on my personal time lately has been my attempt to buy a home. Because I usually write about what I am doing at the moment, I decided