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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Are you a generalist or a specialist?
Aaron Held writes a great post on specialization and the issues it raises in a development organization. The Heinlein quote he shares is a keeper, and so is the podcast he linked to: Escape Pod: EP179: Arties Aren’t Stupid. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming, Friends, Family and Life
Tagged programming
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Go Phillies!
Susie Madrak commented on the possibility some folks just may not care about this World Series since the two teams involved aren’t the usual suspects – but like last night shown – you’re going to get get great baseball. Every … Continue reading
Last Night’s NE Blogger Meetup
It went great, but there’s some lessons to be learned to manage and grow it into the success it deserves to be.
Software Development Links: Practices and Thoughts Edition
Three links from two Comcasters: codeartisan: Jon Moore: Measure your improvements codeartisan: Jon Moore: Cracking down on technical debt code zen: Arpit Mathur: Isn’t quality code a feature?
Software Architecture Links: Documenting Architecture
IBM developerWorks: Documenting software architecture, Part 1: What software architecture is, and why it’s important to document it IBM developerWorks: The architecture of Web applications W3C: Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One w3.org: Web Architecture from 50,000 feet
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming
Tagged design, process, programming
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Social Software Links: The Future of the Web Edition
Gabor Cselle: “The Future of Email” Talk in Sydney Identity Management Manifesto: via robert_francis Burningbird: This Week’s Semantic Web, Burningbird style Waxy.org: Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey slacktivist: They need help: Information — facts, reality, the rebuttal and … Continue reading
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Social Software Links: Activism and Privacy Edition
Penny Arcade! posted a comic that summarizes what many think of online anonymity and the Internet: John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory: Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad. Up until the past few weeks, I would have … Continue reading
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Tagged internet, privacy, programming, sociology, web
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Social Software Links: Postmodernism, Data Smog Edition
Metafilter: If information is power, then access is empowering NYTimes: Overfeeding on Information NYtimes: Spinning a Web of Lies at Digital Speed NYTimes: The Rise of the Machines Andrew Sullivan: Why I Blog Reason.com: Every Man a Derrida Rough Type: … Continue reading
Been a way for a bit
I’ve been dealing with a few things, including migrating all of my personal sites to a new web host (next – upgrading my templates to meet latest MT versions), that have kept me away this past week, but hopefully today … Continue reading
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Wow
Chron.com: Answers come too late for Ike worker’s daughter: Clear Lake woman uses Web to track down adult child of man killed while saving dogs from freeway
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