Jonathan's Pancheria

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Posted by Delicious auto poster Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:19:42 GMT

“Saying “NO.
- “The difference between a laborer and a professional is that a laborer takes orders from his boss, and a professional provides input to his superiors. Laborers are hired to take direction. Professionals are hired to ensure that the direction chosen makes sense.”
- Posted: Mon Dec 21 20:19:04 UTC 2009

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Posted by Delicious auto poster Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:19:34 GMT

Coding Horror: Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway
- Nothing new here, but a very succinct discussion of what it takes to put out software, especially in the internet age. Probably not if you’re writing, say, systems that could hurt people or things if they fail, but….
- Posted: Sat Dec 05 06:03:15 UTC 2009

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Mar 06

Feb 19

High Scalability - High Scalability - Twitter’s Plan to Analyze 100 Billion Tweets
High Scalability post on twitter's use of Hadoop, Pig, and Protocol Buffers to build an analysis and metrics system for their tweets. Their use of Protocol Buffers' IDL as a metadata source to drive Hadoop population is very interesting

Feb 17

The Ruby Toolbox: Know your options!
Ruby developers can choose from a variety of tools to get their job done. The Ruby Toolbox gives you an overview of these tools, sorted in categories and rated by the amount of watchers and forks in the corresponding source code repository on GitHub so you can find out easily what options you have and which are the most common ones in the Ruby community.

Feb 04

MF Bliki: ConversationalStories
"In terms of coming up with stories, what this means is that they are always something to be refined through conversation - and that developers should play an active role in helping that definition. -spotting inconsistencies and gaps between the stories -using technical knowledge to come up with new stories that seem to fit the product owner's vision -seeing alternative stories that would be cheaper to build given the technological landscape -split stories to make them easier to plan or implement"

Feb 03

Mobile Application Part - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Mobile Application Part (MAP) is an SS7 protocol which provides an application layer for the various nodes in GSM and UMTS mobile core networks and GPRS core networks to communicate with each other in order to provide services to mobile phone users." Wow, a whole new area I know nothing about
Shareaholic for Google Chrome - Google Chrome extension gallery
Share any web page with your friends right from the page you are on! This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. Click the shareaholic icon or use a custom keyboard shortcut whenever you want to share, save, or e-mail the page you're visiting.

Feb 01

Semantic Versioning
Interesting versioning scheme for software/service releases that discusses one way to handle version number changes. For me, it codifies and regiments version numbering systems I have seen used on lots of different projects.

Jan 26

In praise of git’s index // plasmasturm.org
More interesting information about how someone uses the features specific to git as a dvcs (the index). Different take on what the index represents, and how to use it to stage multiple feature commits out of the current diff, or how to handle complicated merges

Jan 18

Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq
geuis's helium-css at master - GitHub
Interesting tool to do "code coverage" of css stylesheets. Will find any unused css selectors on a set of pages