keith

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.

marco:

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.

(Source: marco)

looks like if i want to make games i’ll need to re-wire my brain.

(cool discussion on gamedev stack exchange)

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.

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…