Archive for January, 2008

Comparing the 3 Buckets of Medical Science to Software Development

Steve Freeman wrote Checklist-Driven Programming about the New Yorker, Atul Gawande article that I previously compared to lean. He asks how this portion of the article maps to software:

The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is insuring those […]

MacHeist II Bundle is Amazing!

If you own a mac and don’t already own ALL of these apps, go buy it now!

This year’s MacHeist II bundle contains another batch of great software for the crazy price of just $49. Snapz Pro X alone normally retails for more than that, and CSSEdit, although it normally sells for $30, is […]

Startups need Feedback

“Get your product, your idea, your service to market as quickly as possible and get feedback from customers,” he said. “If you work in a vacuum for six months or a year without getting that feedback, you tend to … forget about the customer.” Ben Curtis of Catch The […]

Agility in 99 Words

Taken from a chapter of The Art of Agile Development this quote make me remember that “on time, on budget” is only a part of the story…

Agile development is popular, but that’s no reason to use it. The real question: will agile development make your team more successful? Success is […]

Photos from The Summit at Snoqualmie

More pictures of available in my Flickr Summit At Snoqualmie Set A small series of pictures I took of the instructors of in line during training can be seen here… Click on it, it’s hard to see without being shown full screen.

Jerry Seinfeld on Ruby

What’s the deal with Ruby and Apache? They both sound like something Kenny Rogers likes. From mhd commenting about the new ruby web server Thin

Perl Regex Tip: Zero-width positive look-aheads are non-capturing.

I used to write regexes all the live long day in a language called WebQL. During that time I must’ve written somewhere between 5000-10000 lines of regular expressions to extract data from various data feeds the crawlers would pull down every day. It’s all fun and games until an angry customer calls wondering […]

Need to see a pony picture? A new one every day? PonyADay.blogspot.com is for you!

I’ve started a new blog http://ponyaday.blogspot.com dedicated to posting a new pony picture every day. Now you don’t need to waste your precious time searching for your pony fix and end up getting a pony picture from a post about RFPs.

Go see all the pony pictures like this shot of Magic the Purple […]