I just registered to attend AnDevCon [http://www.andevcon.com/AndevCon_sanfrancisco/index.html] from November 12th - 15th. I attended their first conference in March 2011 and really enjoyed the experience. It was very useful at that point in time because good Android information was still hard to come by. I am hoping that this time around the conference will be...
Postman [http://getpostman.com/] is my new favorite REST web service testing client. It installs as a Chrome plugin and allows you to easily create a valid request. Each request is saved and you can categorize your requests into collections. It's also has a very well done interface that will format responses for you. As if that wasn't enough, it's also open...
I have been very happy with my FreeNAS [http://www.freenas.org] system and just updated it to the latest release. It had been a while since I updated and they have added a plugin system based on BSD jails. I installed a couple plugins and they have made they system more useful on my home network. MiniDLNA [http://sourceforge.net/projects/...
While looking for a tool to analyze a large number of test results, I came across R [http://www.r-project.org/]. Since I had read about it multiple times in the past, I decided to give it a shot. So far it has save me from writing a number of one-off scripts and I have barely scratched the surface. For instance, given...
I finished reading Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja [http://jsninja.com/] last night. I enjoyed the book's general approach of introducing a topic, proving how it works (using a testing methodology developed in an example) and then building upon each topic after it is completely understood. It also has the best written and most complete description of JavaScript's scoping I have ever...