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Aug 12

• Stevey's Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit
  "You can look at any phenomenally successful company, and it's pretty obvious that their success was founded on building on something they personally wanted. The extent that any company begins to deviate from this course is the extent to which their ship starts taking on water. And the key leading indicator that they're getting ready to head off course? You guessed it: it's when they start talking about gathering business requirements."

Jul 20

• Beanstalkd - Software - xph.us
  beanstalkd is a fast, distributed, in-memory workqueue service. Its interface is generic, but was originally designed for use in reducing the latency of page views in high-volume web applications by running most time-consuming tasks asynchronously.

Jul 18

• What does the word "Quality" mean?
  it has few known defects in its current state, we have high confidence that we will not discover defects in its current state over time, [and] we will not create further defects...as we add to or alter its functionality in the normal course....

Jul 17

• A Joining of the Tribes « fate = will && choice || circumstance
  One of the... themes at the Velocity conference on operations and web performance was that in this world of highly available, scaled and performant web applications, developers have to think about operations and admins have to think about the applications

Jul 13

• A-minus-minus: xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
  "Package contained bobcat. Would not buy again"

Jul 12

• Burnham's Beat: Fannie Mae's Golden Goose: A Lesson In Moral Hazard
  Interesting post of analysis on how Fannie Mae ended up in the mess it finds itself in today.

Jul 08

• Google Open Source Blog: Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format
  Protocol Buffers allow you to define simple data structures in a special definition language, then compile them to produce classes ...complete with heavily-optimized code to parse and serialize your message in an extremely compact format

Jul 03

• Process Theatre
  Entire post: "You know how Bruce Schneier uses the term Security Theatre to describe measures designed to make us feel safer but not actually safer? I am going to start using the term Process Theatre. I trust you can grasp the meaning immediately."

Jun 27

• /\ndy: Stage 0: Not Ready For Agile
  Sample: "In an agile project, you will not know the project end date or even what features will be delivered in the next iteration. You cannot stand this, and will insist on fixed dates and costs right up front."

Jun 25

• SproutCore » about
  SproutCore is a framework for building [web] applications in JavaScript.... It can help you build full “thick” client applications ... that can create and modify data..., communicating with your server via Ajax only when they need to save or load data