Development on Mandse™

Paw HTTP Client

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:42:42 +0100

When developing Web apps you spend a lot of time in the browser, and before long you have a crap-ton of open tabs which slows the system down and is a total pain to navigate around in.

Testing with "latest"

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:42:42 +0100

A few months ago I gave a small talk at the Nordic Perl Workshop 2013, about a clever way of combining cpanm and local::lib to test your CPAN modules with the latest version of its dependencies.

Amateurs vs. Experts

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:14:00 +0100

If you think experts are expensive, you should see how much amateurs cost.

Don't be too clever...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:42:00 +0100

Debugging is twice as hard as writing code. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are not smart enough to debug it.

Wildcard repositories with Gitolite

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:42:00 +0100

A while ago I upgraded from Gitosis to Gitolite. I’ve been using Gitosis for a long time and while there is nothing wrong with Gitosis, Gitolite just does so much more.

Man I love ePub

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:27:34 +0100

recently listened to a very interesting podcast from the Pragmatic Programmers featuring an interview with Uncle Bob. At the end they talked about a book Robert had recommended at the most recent…

Pick of the week: xScope

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:19:09 +0100

weeks pick is cute little utillity app from the Iconfactory called xScope. If you do any kind of design work xScope will most certainly help you in your day to day work. xScope is really a…

Intelligent life...

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:00:00 +0100

It would seem that there really is some intelligent life somewhere… If you are serious about web development, you too would use this browser. The reason? - Firefox has a super cool extention system for which some must have/can’t live without extentions exist. The most notable being these two:

Ant sucks, and doesn't respect symlinks...

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:29:00 +0100

Man I hate Ant! So I was working on this project, in which Ant generates a build directory. - I created a symlink inside the build dir for something that was not quite ready to be build for real just yet. That way ant could do what ever it wanted to, my code was stored safely in another location. Or so i thought… ant clean ant build