Christmas is coming!

Why this guy hate frameworks?

This is a funny and very interesting post about frameworks and, I think, overdesign in software development from Benji smith

Found in The Joel on software

15 free tools for Mac OS

Interesting...

Simple UML diagrams with UMLet

UMLet it's a nice tool for drawing Sequence and Use Cases UML diagrams. It's very simple, intuitive and also funny to use.

My favorite features are the edition of artifacts based in plain text and, mainly, that it's no a pure UML tool, you can draw not fully UML compliant diagrams, and this can be very useful (sometimes)

I think it's a fantastic tool to draw simple and descriptive diagrams rapidly. Of course it's not CASE tool, but also it's cleaner than use a blackboard

UMLet runs as Eclipse plugin, and also as standalone application. Try it!

Using dashboard widgets in Your Desktop

This article explains how to drag widgets from your Dashboard to your Desktop

Cool!

RIA Frameworks

Althought traditionally I have not been working extensively in User Interfaces, and of course I'm not an expert on this area, I'm pretty sure that somethings goes wrong in traditional Java web interfaces development (Struts, JSF, Spring MVC).

It's too hard develop a Web application, too much code, too much errors, too much programmers!

I'm not sure about the future, but RIA interfaces (Ajax or Flex) in Service Oriented User Interfaces (SOUI) seems more razonable approaches.

This is a very interesting presentation about RIA (focuses in Appcelerator framework) from Matt Raible

Building Rich Applications with Appcelerator

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: flex rest)

Viewing CHM files in Mac OS Leopard

Unfortunately the very best operative system in the world, Mac Os X, version 10.5 (Leopard) doesn't have native support for viewing CHM files.

But I found a free and multiplatform application, xCHM that opens these kind of files with a clear interface.



Thanks to David's Logbook