would be beautiful as a tattoo. wonder who the artist is?
Tracks
continuous delivery
I personally believe that the developer of a system/feature is the most qualified person to define how their code is configured and deployed.
in response to a stackexchange question, wrote a bit about how i think configuration management and deployment automation fit into a software team.
“BE AWARE: THE CHANGES OUTLINED IN THIS BLOG MAY SLIP TO EARLY NEXT YEAR IF THEY DON’T MEET THE NECESSARY SOFTWARE AND QA MILESTONES, IN THE SPIRIT OF DOING THINGS PROPERLY RATHER THAN QUICKLY. WE WILL LET YOU KNOW IF THIS HAPPENS”
Big and fat before an announcement about a new feature in eve online. nice to see the smarter-not-harder approach. CCP is probably a fun place to work. (yet then they mention deployment risk. Yikes, not automated?)
(Source: eveonline.com)
Marco.org: Developers don't rush to new platforms
A common fallacy is assuming that any new platform in an exciting market — recently, smartphones and tablet computers — will be flooded with developers as soon as it’s released, as if developers are just waiting outside the gates, hungrily waiting to storm in.
In two recent cases, that’s exactly…
good point about ease of purchasing in the app store. what if buying everything only took two touches to confirm that you want it? sounds fun to me.
maybe it’s time for the shopping cart metaphor to die.
"organization of your code is not a core mechanic of your game"
looks like if i want to make games i’ll need to re-wire my brain.
(cool discussion on gamedev stack exchange)
Database Drama « Jeremy Zawodny's blog
Each and every one of those NoSQL projects exist because someone needed them. And sometimes you need to start using a shiny new thing before really understanding its limitations and what those tradeoffs REALLY mean in your environment.
Good read.
Sir Ian McKellen mistaken for a tramp while taking a break outside rehearsals of Waiting For Godot. (Readmore)
In other words, don’t give money to bums, they might be Gandalf. And nobody wants to insult Gandalf.
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rock out with your coq au vin out: No hardware
Here’s the future of computing : no computer.
Don’t read this on the Tumblr dashboard if you want to see the videos.
During the late 70s, a trend emerged : computers needed to be smaller, to become more personal. HP laughed at Steve Wozniak when he told them he wanted to make a computer for…
compression (via terminally-incoherent)
