http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing The joys of developing software & other stuff by Adrian Nadeau Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:34:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just finished reading a fabulous book... for the second time. It's a very popular book called "Who Moved My Cheese". It's really a great book. It's very easy read (under 100 pages) but it gets you thinking a lot about changes in life and how to deal with them ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2007/01/10/hey-whered-my-cheese-go/ Gonna steal a quote from a Business/Life Coach that I read up on a lot... Robin Sharma. He is doing many great things, writing books, blogging, running seminars, etc. Check out some of his stuff, it'll change your life. One thing Robin has taught me is to "Just Be ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2006/12/13/just-be-nice-when-it-comes-to-customer-service/ Hey Everyone.. if there is anyone that reads this blog still :) I haven't been blogging much over the past few months. Basically I wanted to review different types of software or try to help developers with different types of Open Source projects, etc. However, it became tougher to ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2006/12/13/ok-im-back-new-concept/ The following is a paid review: Hey everyone, It's been awhile for me to write a blog but I'm going to give it another go here. My brother has stumbled across a neat tool that might help me find some topics to blog about (one of the reasons I haven't blogged ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2006/11/11/advertisers-paying-for-blog-reviews/ Hey Everyone, Time for another post. I know it's been awhile but I've been pretty heavy into the Google API stuff. Honestly was kinda tricky to work with a first but I finally might be onto it... yeah, I'm just a bit of a slow learner I guess :) In ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2006/09/21/using-the-java-client-library-with-google-calendar-api/ Hey Everyone! Yeah, it's been awhile since my last blog... been traveling a bit... waiting for a laptop to get fixed... blah blah. So, Google is in the news a lot these days. Google and Web 2.0 seem to almost go hand in hand. Almost as much as ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2006/08/17/google-calendar-api-and-the-java-client-library/ WEB 2.0 IS HOT RIGHT NOW! A lot of people are talking big about the new way of technology and building applications. It's hard to describe WEB 2.0 because it can mean so many different things to so many people. So, I'm going to steal a quote ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2006/08/01/want-to-web-20-your-application-opensource-it-with-scriptaculous/ Hello All, It's been a few days since my last post... I was on vacation for a few days. Visited the beautiful Island of Holbox. I know... WHERE?! Here's a site that talks a bit about Holbox: http://www.holboxisland.com/. Wow, what an interesting place & what a journey ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2006/07/27/holbox-island-no-technology-for-4-days/ A Web Content Management System is a type of Content management system (CMS) software used for managing websites. The software manages content (text, graphics, links, etc.) for distribution on a web server. Usually the software provides tools where users with little or no knowledge of programming languages and markup languages (such ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2006/07/17/meshcms-a-simple-opensource-cms-solution-for-once/ Has you ever looked for an easy way to add searching capabilities to your web site or application? For some reason when I started looking a year ago I didn't have much luck. I was fairly familiar with an Apache Product named Lucene (probably one of my favorite product names ... http://www.evolvingsolutions.ca/devwing/2006/07/12/web-site-searching-made-easy-with-opensource-tool-nutch/