There Is No Perfect Design
Many developers, especially those fresh out of college (though older developers are just as prone), fall into the trap of believing in an absolute concept of “the perfect design”. I hate to break such youthful idealism, but there’s just no such thing.
Read MoreDesign Patterns Isn’t a Golden Hammer
One trap that developers need to be wary of is the mentality of the Hammer Truism. This states that
Read MoreThanks for the Well Wishes
When something tragic befalls a friend, or even an acquaintance, I used to wonder if expressing my condolences and sorrow really meant much to the afflicted person. It certainly is different from person to person. For Akumi and me, I think the answer to that is yes, it is helpful. We certainly felt some degree of comfort knowing friends and even strangers who read my blog were sending us well wishes and thinking of us.
Read MoreHappy Birthday Akumi!
I know the timing is pretty
crummy, but here it is. It is required, yes required, that I give
you a true geek birthday salute (i.e. a blog birthday greeting).
A Loss In The Family
Joke: Four Old Friends
Four friends who hadn’t seen each other in 30 years, reunited at a party. After several drinks, one of the men had to use the rest room. Those who remained talked about their kids.
Read MoreStudy Shows That Referee's Decisions are Influenced by Spectator Pressure
A soccer buddy, and Doctor, sent me this interesting report. Here’s a snippet…
Read MoreBlogging: 3 questions
I swear I never do these stupid quizzes or memes or whatever you call it, but this is only three questions. If it’s good enough for Sam Ruby, it’s good enough for me.
Read MoreFor The Love of Football (Soccer)
One of my friends from our weekend pick-up game sent around this quote from Nick Hornby’s novel, Fever Pitch
(which was regrettably turned into a movie about baseball, rather than soccer as it was written).
Drove Down to San Diego
Yesterday we drove down to the San Diego area to spend the day with Akumi’s dad in Chula Vista, right on the border with Mexico. Trips to visit her dad end up being culinary expeditions of the highest quality. For lunch, we had some of the most delicious Ton-Katsu since Japan. Unfortunately we stuffed our faces so much that by the time we went to dinner, we were still a bit full and couldn’t enjoy the meal. Which was too bad because we went to the best Sushi place in San Diego. Perhaps the best in Southern California. Sushi Ota.
Read MoreHappy 27th Birthday Dare!
Today, the esteemed Dare Obasanjo, MSN Maestro, RSS Bandit Ruler, XML Guru Extraordinaire, Social Software Seminarian has just completed his 27th trip around the sun.
Read MoreQuickstart Guide To Open Source Development With CVS and SourceForge
UPDATE: Whoops! I linked to the wrong versions of putty and pageant. I corrected the links.
Read MoreKnee-Jerk Rant On Education in America
Alright, it’s time for me to pull this ratty old thing out of the closet, dust it off a bit, and step onto it. Yes, my pedestal.
Read MoreSubtext Progress Report
For the past several days, I’ve
been consumed with working on the Subtext blogging
engine (not to be
confused with the Subtext programming
language). It’s been the most
fun I’ve had writing software since, well, since working on RSS
Bandit as a matter of fact. ;)
Look, Nobody Really Cares That You're A DJ
This just cracks me up. Especially after reading #1 through #3 and then you get to #4, I can’t stop laughing. If you’ve been these various venues (rave, dance club, hip-hop club, etc…), you’ll totally get this humor.
Read MoreAwesome Music Video. What Happens When Your Work Follows You Around?
This is quite possibly
one of the coolest music videos
ever.
What a Shitty Day
Today has been an awful day, starting just past midnight, I lose the database for my site. Later, I played in the most dreadful soccer game ever. We only fielded ten players, but the other team only had seven showup to start! Yet, they managed to put three in the back of the net by half-time.
Read MoreThe Trouble With Choice
As a developer, I like choice. For example, WiX doesn’t currently support managed custom actions. You can hack it together, but they won’t support your endeavor. Personally, I want the choice to shoot myself in the foot with a managed custom action. Hand over that gun!
Read MoreOh the Irony! Hilary Rosen Complains About DRM
Yes, THAT Hilary Rosen. The RIAA’s former top attack dog Hilary Rosen is complaining about DRM on music. This is an interesting topic for her first post on Arianna Huffington’s new blog. Does she not realize the inherent irony of her complaint?
Read MoreHaacked.com Is Back Online
If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a professional developer, it is that “TIP” is bad. Never Test In Production! Unfortunately in my case, it was past midnight, I was tired, and I had two query analyzer windows open, one to my local host, and one to my website’s database, both with the same database name
Read More