So I won a coveted “Nonconformity” award at RailsConf last weekend for being one of the 50 or so of the 550 attendees who ( “on purpose” ) DID NOT bring an Apple laptop to the event. See: Here's a picture of my fine award next to the infallible Rails god himself: Seriously, next to [...]
I honestly do not care much about job titles, but, is it just me, or has the title: “Senior XXXXXX” been diluted to mean “XXXXX with one year experience” or “XXXXXX who is not fresh out of college” or “XXXXX who has had at least one job as XXXXX before”? Tired of your job? Need [...]
I was lurking around the site of the upcoming inaugural RailsConf and discovered a top secret new AJAX component for Ruby on Rails developers, likely to be announced at the show. See my evidence… Tired of your job? Need to hire developers? Visit DZone Jobs: great people, great opportunities.
Holy Schmoly. Look at this. The Google Web Toolkit has been released for building web apps like GMail and Google Maps in Java. It comes with an application creator for Eclipse. I haven't looked at this much, but some questions come to mind: Is this the real thing that powers things like GMail? Did the [...]
Mike was wondering out loud last week why computers have “CAPS LOCK” buttons on them. What is the point? Even if I feel like YELLING IN AN EMAIL, I typically just hold down the left shift key with my pinky while I type with my other 9 digits. I can see why it might have [...]
I have launched a beta of a new web 2.0 application . . . introducing evenLESS beta! I consider evenLESS a major step forward in the less software movement. I have “started with less” and “embraced my constraints”. This application has many of the web2.0 requirements: a reflective logo a badge in the upper right [...]
I was in a slap-happy mood at work to today and wrote on the whiteboard: “When in doubt, GridBadLayout” Then I kept going with other geeky rhyming truisms, anti-patterns and nonsense. Here's some more: When in doubt, GridBagLayout When you suffer, use StringBuffer When you're dead, create new Thread() When you don't care, dump to [...]
A couple weeks ago, Jason Alexander was on Real Time with Bill Maher. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) accidentally addressed Jason as “George” in a mildly heated exchange. Jason took it in stride and said that it happens all of the time and they both laughed and Rep. Kingston apologized. I mentioned to Mary that I [...]
I posted a bunch of screenshots from the new Apple iTunes commercial over at Flickr. Add notes for album covers that you can identify for some big time fun! (View larger sizes for help). I filled out at least one on each image, it's your job to identify as many as possible! (I think that [...]
Start lobbying your management team today for the can't-miss conference of 2006: Waterfall 2006! Be sure to read the whole front page and then some of the presentation descriptions and then Sign Up! Some of the not-to-miss presentations that I am going to check out: Unfactoring from Patterns: Job Security through Unreadability by Joshua Kerievsky [...]
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