Manageability.org asks the question “Is Chandler’s Demise Evidence that Dynamic Languages Can’t Scale?”. For a quick reply, I’ll quote a Reddit comment: “Even if it was, such a badly-managed project wouldn’t be a good example.” Software projects have failed long before the current dynamic language hoopla — see Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood’s article, The Long, [...]
If someone’s compiling a list of the most off-the-wall out-of-touch-with-reality tech blogger posts of the year, I want to nominate Robert Graham’s post at Errata Security titled Why the OLPC Promotes Terrorism. It’s so filled with the type of over-the-top pronouncements that one normally sees on extreme right-wing blogs that I had to reread to make sure that it wasn’t parody, and even now I’m not 100% sure. (Next to this article, Zed’s rant sounds rather restrained…)
In an article defending their actions at CES, Gizmodo editor Brian Lam cited his reporter’s misuse of the TV-B-Gone device as a defiant act of journalistic independence and integrity, vaingloriously calling it “civil disobedience”. However, an October 2004 Gizmodo review of TV-B-Gone does a far better job of explaining the type of person who’d use the device…
(The resemblance between Fred “Right Said Fred” Fairbrass and Zed Shaw — uncanny, isn’t it?)
Inspired by the now-infamous rant by Zed Shaw, I’m changing my presentation topic at Tuesday’s TSOT Ruby/Rails Project Night to “Rant Said Zed: I’m Too Sexy for My Rails (or: Lessons and Challenges from Zed Shaw’s Rant”). If you’re free Tuesday evening, you might want to catch this.
A quick reminder to my readership: If you’re going to be a jackass in the comments (like “Brian” was in this one), your comment will either not get approved, or — as in Brian’s case — “disemvowelled”. You’re in my virtual living room, and I expect you to behave accordingly.
I just got an announcement from the folks at O’Reilly about their new book, Windows Vista Annoyances. I thought to myself, “Well, that’s good for 500 pages of material”. Then I checked the page count: 664. Heh.
Why I Changed Jobs: The Best Guess
A number of people have approached me — both online and in person — and attempted to guess what it was that made me consider leaving my Technical Evangelist job at Tucows, a job that I enjoyed and to which I was well-suited.
The person who came closest, a “long-time [...]
Free as in godawful design.
In case you hadn’t heard (or, in case you actually cared), the Free Software Foundation is releasing version 3 of the GPL today. As you might expect, today’s iPhone release is eclipsing GPL v3’s release, but the FSF are undeterred in their mission. In fact, they’re using this coincidence to remind [...]
The Ginger Ninja and I had a little time to kill before flying home from Connecticut last Sunday, so we headed over to Borders to get some cheap books.
Right now, thanks to a combination of:
A Canadian Dollar that’s relatively strong in comparison to the U.S. Dollar (according to xe.com, it’s 94.22 cents U.S. as of [...]
Ain’t it just my luck. As I was whipping up this graphic:
and this graphic:
I decided to do a little Googling and discovered that not only had I been beaten to the punch, I had also been beaten spectacularly, as this iPhone-based spoof of 2001 shows:
Ah well.
Anyhow, all this is preamble for the best advice I’ve [...]
