Category Archives: Tools
VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro
I installed Sun’s VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard) this week, then created a new virtual machine with WIndows 7 Ultimate – 32 bit (thanks to my MSDN licence). That means I can test how my WordPress themes look on IE8 running on Windows 7. I can also run Windows only applications and share [...]
A few of the tools I use
I have had a MacBook Pro for a few months now, and I’ve found a few favourite tools for WordPress development. I’m open to other recommendations, if there’s anything you’ve found particularly useful. Development Environment XAMPP provides me with the right Apache and MySQL environment for my test sites. It makes it easy to use [...]
Enabling SOA with Yahoo Pipes
We’ve been discussing recently how an SOA will help us to provide better and more flexible systems for our users. Particularly in an environment where major line-of-business applications (such as HR, EDRM, Finance) support the main business processes, and there aren’t many cross-silo processes. One area where SOA might help is in aggregating data from [...]
FreeMind mind mapper
I was looking for a free mind mapper the other day, and googled upon FreeMind. This Java-based program provides a graphical interface to create mind maps, along with a library of icons, and it is possible to save the map as PDF, which is good for sharing the maps with other people.