Archive for January, 2009

Frontend Tool- and Hint-Collections

January 29, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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I have just discovered the tools section of the Smashing Magazine with very interesting articles like these ones: 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques 15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools 50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography 15 Useful Project Management Tools And there are many more!

Hippie Completion in Eclipse

January 24, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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I was using a factory like this $factory = new Object_Factory(); $curr_object = $factory->create(‘brand’); to generate instances of objects I needed and wondered why Eclipse could not auto-complete e.g. getters and setters in my code for me later on for the $curr_object. My productivity and my motivation to type all that stuff were seriously suffering… [...]

SuggestRSS

January 22, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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I just found this handy little tool: You need to do the following: have your OPML ready (e.g. export it from GoogleReader), upload it to SuggestRss and see other feeds that might interest you. Happy feed digestion!

Use of MySql Variables

January 14, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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Case: I was building a CLI script to aggregate data from one MySql database and write results to another MySql database using 2 open db-connections. This way the script’s execution time was in the some-minutes-range… not good! I tried a more effective attempt: I let the CLI script output all necessary statements to drop and [...]

Planning Poker for better Estimates

January 11, 2009 by marco · 1 Comment
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There are many essays and articles on ‘Planning Poker’ out there. So I do not need to repeat the principles here. By checking out the recommended links (and folloups and others from your own research) you need to understand the following: What a story point of a project looks like and how you generate those [...]

LSIS Channels is out!

January 4, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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I’m proud to announce the release of some new features in our LSIS Life Science Search Engine – ‘Save Queries‘, ‘Browse Channels‘ and ‘ORed terms‘. Saving queries to channels works like this: Perform a search on our frontend. Then the button ‘Save Query‘ appears: Propose a title for your query and chose whether the resulting [...]