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The Art(?) Of Software Engineering: February 2007
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Random, poorly-written, wrong stuff with which, for some reason, I feel compelled to clog the Internet. Saturday, February 24, 2007. Elitism can suck it. Slashdot Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu. The fact that he now has a financial interest in Ubuntu/Linspire - and thus has a conflict of interest in trashing Red Hat the company and promoting Canonical - turns this from a egomaniacal explosion into something akin to FUD. Thursday, February 22, 2007. I tore through The Pragmatic Programmer.
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The Art(?) Of Software Engineering: ApacheCon Day 1
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Random, poorly-written, wrong stuff with which, for some reason, I feel compelled to clog the Internet. Thursday, November 15, 2007. It looked like today was going to be another snorefest, but. Do I feel bad about skipping a morning session? No I've been stuck in the hotel the entire week with nary a peep of the outside world.). Tasty vegetable soup for lunch. Bjorn had a rather worse time, but he can tell that story. We're all done after tomorrow. Documentation / presentations without well-constructed e...
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The Art(?) Of Software Engineering: December 2007
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Random, poorly-written, wrong stuff with which, for some reason, I feel compelled to clog the Internet. Monday, December 17, 2007. Something I didn't fully grok until just now. The Next Karate Kid. Is really, really awful. What a turd. Thursday, December 6, 2007. I haven't blogged anything about Bioshock, but for the record I did enjoy it very much, even though I found it a bit too easy and the DRM really pissed me off. Eurogamer has this article. So what is to be done? Tuesday, December 4, 2007. Too eas...
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The Art(?) Of Software Engineering: Emacs font joy
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Random, poorly-written, wrong stuff with which, for some reason, I feel compelled to clog the Internet. Friday, November 16, 2007. The neato Android font is actually a very readable and pleasant coding font. Great - how do I use it for Emacs on my Ubuntu? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Do the right thing. The Apache Software Foundation. Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog. ApacheCon Day -1 (Hackathon Day 1). ApacheCon Day -2 (Hackathon Day 0).
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The Art(?) Of Software Engineering: October 2007
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Random, poorly-written, wrong stuff with which, for some reason, I feel compelled to clog the Internet. Monday, October 29, 2007. Guitar Hero III quick hits. Rather than writing a long and possibly sucky review, I'll just go with the important points. (I got the 360 version, if it matters to you.). Track list is well-rounded. There's something for everybody, and the bonus songs aren't writeoffs. It looks really good in HD. Turn your head and cough:. Who thought this was a good idea? And "100 Note Streak!
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The Art(?) Of Software Engineering: January 2008
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Random, poorly-written, wrong stuff with which, for some reason, I feel compelled to clog the Internet. Monday, January 7, 2008. After a year of semi-regular blogging, it's time to move on. You can now find all of my crap at taose.speakmon.org. The old site will stay up so as not to confuse search engines, but no more updates will be forthcoming here. See you on the other side. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Do the right thing. The Apache Software Foundation. Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog.
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The Art(?) Of Software Engineering: May 2007
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Random, poorly-written, wrong stuff with which, for some reason, I feel compelled to clog the Internet. Thursday, May 24, 2007. Shiny rails and testing. Man, Rails kicks ass. After getting a hold of Ruby a few months ago, I've been looking deeply into Rails. There are a couple things at work that use it, and I'll probably wind up maintaining them if we don't replace them altogether. Case in point: Our framework includes Struts 1.3.8. All told, the googling/studying/problem solving/coding that I'll have d...
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The Art(?) Of Software Engineering: August 2007
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Random, poorly-written, wrong stuff with which, for some reason, I feel compelled to clog the Internet. Monday, August 20, 2007. Sun is misusing the GPL for Java: Part 2. Slashdot Sun Lowers Barriers to Open-Source Java. Now for Part 2. For more.) This, apparently, is Sun's response. I'll have to think about what this means for ASF. Thursday, August 16, 2007. Sun is misusing the GPL for Java: Part 1. Slashdot Sun Lowers Barriers to Open-Source Java. Struck me as needless. Of course the developers inv...
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The Art(?) Of Software Engineering: January 2007
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Random, poorly-written, wrong stuff with which, for some reason, I feel compelled to clog the Internet. Saturday, January 27, 2007. Is there any value to reading The Art of Computer Programming. The series is a classic, and that means it carries loads of baggage along with its merits. I don't know of any universally accepted definition for a classic other than the tongue-in-cheek one:. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain. And the only guarantee ...