My name is Edward Tanguay. I'm an American software and web developer living and working in Berlin, Germany.
3 hours ago: If you are a developer in Berlin and need to improve your English, I'm looking for groups to teach after work: http://tanguay.info/itenglish.
4 hours ago: As far as I'm concerned, the singularity is already here, every time I wake up twitter tells me something amazing was created while I slept.
5 hours ago: We're not suffering from information overload, we're suffering from faulty filtering.
5 hours ago: Classic literature for free as nicely formatted 1-page or 2-page PDF downloads: http://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks.asp.
5 hours ago: Yes, when you pour coffee, "a lightning storm of neuronal activity occurs almost across the entire brain": http://is.gd/eWO1T @pholdings.
22 hours ago: If you put two spaces after a period or use underlining for emphasis, you were born before 1980.
22 hours ago: Word of the day: infovore, n. an animal with a voracious appetite for information.
yesterday: It's said that on average people use less than 10% of their brain, but I think on average computers use less than 1% of their CPU.
2 days ago: Saturday fun: team drawing on two computers with six-year-old in a shared google doc diagram.
2 days ago: Someday I want to produce a developer podcast called "What's that?" but for now "the developer's life" is a nice genre: http://is.gd/eTURO.
3 days ago: Here's a use-case for datapod format, recording human-readable data that later can be used as a datasource: http://is.gd/eSsLg @pholdings.
Categories
- ASP.NET MVC - The next stage of ASP.NET, still in beta (Jan 2009), solves a lot of issues, e.g. viewstate.
- PHP - One of the most popular, ubiquitous and useful scripting languages.
- .NET 3.5 - The latest version of Microsoft's programming platform.
- C# - The most popular language for the .NET platform, quickly passing Java in innovation.
- Visual Studio .NET - The prefered IDE for developing in .NET.
- ASP.NET - Microsoft's framework for building web sites.
- CSS - Now that we have semi-compatible browsers (Firefox, IE7, Safari, Opera), using ccascading style sheets is even starting to be fun, but does not come without hours and hours of frustration leaving floats, etc. Advice for web developers: learning something about CSS every day.
- SVN - The prefered choice for version control these days.
- jQuery - jQuery is quickly becoming THE Javascript library of choice (surpassing Prototype), it is simple and powerful (chaining), and plugins are easy to write for it. It is also now included in Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC.