Author Archives: ron

iPhone hacks

Posted on July 30, 2007 by ron

Well, it looks like hackers have been hard at work on the iPhone since it came out and have managed to hack the iPhone to gain access to the filesystem, alter the iPhone’s internals, and to launch custom programs. This … Continue reading →

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Web development for iPhone

Posted on July 6, 2007 by ron

Apple has posted guidelines for developing web applications for the iPhone. Apple has not provided an SDK for developing applications, so for now this is the only way to create applications for the iPhone. The guidelines tell us how to … Continue reading →

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What MDA needs: a user’s perspective

Posted on June 30, 2007 by ron

One of my areas of interest in software development is model driven architecture and model driven software development. I’ve successfully applied MDA to software projects and have seen the benefits first hand. Although MDA/MDSD tools and techniques can bring several … Continue reading →

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AndroMDA: customizing code generation templates

Posted on April 30, 2007 by ron

AndroMDA is a model driven architecture tool. Model driven architecture tools generate code based on UML models, which UML tools such as Rational Rose have been doing for a long time. The main differences between MDA tools and UML tools … Continue reading →

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Mac software I use

Posted on April 24, 2007 by ron

For fellow Mac users I know (actually, some of these are cross-platform so apply to Linux and Windows too), here is a list of software I frequently use and would recommend: iTerm – Open source tabbed terminal client (Mac only) … Continue reading →

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New version of Freemind

Posted on April 21, 2007 by ron

I installed a new version of Freemind recently. Freemind is a great program for mind-mapping. I use it for organizing thoughts (papers, project plans, etc.) as well as for keeping notes. One thing I particularly like about Freemind is that … Continue reading →

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pyAntTasks moved to Google code

Posted on March 8, 2007 by ron

pyAntTasks is a set of Apache Ant tasks to work with Python code I created a while back. Debedb has added a py-cover task to report on code coverage. I recently moved pyAntTasks over to Google code for hosting so … Continue reading →

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