Latest Blog Entries

  • GETTING DATA FROM YOUTUBE USING PYTHON

    February 21, 2008

    I was looking for some freelance work and came across an interesting project asking about retrieving information about the top 10 most watched videos on YouTube. I have been looking ...

  • ONLINE DEGREES - MY OPINIONS

    January 21, 2008

    I have a Masters degree in information technology from Capella University. I did some research a few years back and talked to many people in regards to school and ...

  • ZOTERO - A GREAT RESEARCH TOOL

    January 17, 2008

    I have recently started back to school in my pursuit of a Ph.D. in Information Technology. I new it would be difficult and that there would be a great deal ...

  • SOFT CODING - I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT LIKE THAT

    December 28, 2007

    I read an article (Papadimoulis, 2007) that described a practice that has become all too common in software development these days: "Soft Coding". In the article Papadimoulis describes Soft coding ...

  • WHAT IS QUALITY SOFTWARE?

    December 28, 2007

    “Thus spake the master programmer: A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.'''' (James, 1996)

    My view of quality software stems from having ...

  • AGILE AND USE-CASES

    December 27, 2007

    "The one thing to remember about use cases is: tomorrow they are going to change." (Martin)

    I found the above quote (and the article containing it) to be very ...

  • THE IMPORTANCE OF USE CASES

    December 26, 2007

    I have written software for the Internet and for desk-tops going on 7 years now, and I have never once had a single user, a manager, or even a small ...

  • CHOOSING AND BUYING A DOMAIN NAME - CREATING A WEB SITE PART 1

    December 20, 2007

    One of the first steps to creating a website is knowing what you want to call it. Thinking of a name and then finding out that that name is already ...