July 2011
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December 2010
2 posts
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...
November 2010
1 post
Marco.org: Developers don't rush to new platforms →
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...
September 2010
1 post
"organization of your code is not a core mechanic... →
looks like if i want to make games i’ll need to re-wire my brain.
(cool discussion on gamedev stack exchange)
July 2010
1 post
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.
May 2010
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April 2010
2 posts
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…
March 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
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why choosing to add 2 points of strength instead...
when i play a game which uses point assignment for character traits/stats, it fires off the part of my brain which is in control of life reassessment. this is the same part which realizes you need to quit your job or which looks back to see if your life ended up as you hoped it would.
each level up, the player will ask themselves “what kind of person am i?”. the choices may feel...
December 2009
4 posts
Presentation: Gaming the Web: Using the Structure... →
dkeithrobinson:
An interesting presentation from Dan Saffer about how Web Application designers can use game mechanics, processes and concepts to improve their applications.
November 2009
1 post
in software, one of the most important things you can do is giving form to the invisible. a framework for checking “last success” should support every cron, daemon, app server and regularly scheduled script.
it should be purposefully focused by not asking for a current running state and instead ask for “when did you last do your task successfully?” this creates a mindset...
October 2009
2 posts
Coolest Interactive Music Machine Ever. →
i could play with this thing for hours
(via weibel)
July 2009
1 post
movies i watched this weekend
in my awesome fortress of solitude:
Batman Returns
Half Baked
Ocean’s 13
Star Wars I
Star Wars II
Star Wars III
Fanboys
Star Wars IV
Star Wars V
Star Wars VI
In Bruges
The Last Samurai
terri should really leave for the weekend more often.
June 2009
2 posts
May 2009
3 posts
Watch GOMTV.net using XBMC
So I recently setup a home theater computer to allow me to watch movies without using my laptop: Mac Mini + XBMC + Logitech Harmony remote. It really is a great combo, and makes me see what television will be like in a few years. But that is a topic for others to discuss. :]
I noticed i was still using the GOMTV.net web-based flash player to get my starcraft fix. It also bugged me that to...
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April 2009
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March 2009
3 posts
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February 2009
7 posts
some of our research in the yahoo brickhouse focused around the same idea as marco discusses here.
it’s a shame our team was laid off.
marco:
@danielpunkass:
At a time when RSS is only getting more popular, the Safari 4 Beta RSS feature marketing section is void of “New” claims.
Regular people still don’t use or understand RSS, so it’s understandable why Safari wouldn’t play that up...
realizing that i love technical phone screens. it’s like i’m on a computer science game show where 1st prize is a job.
“Design Patterns [..] aren’t bad - far from it. However, they are a...”
– Testability - re-discovering what we learned and forgot about software development.
dear future self
if you turn into a dude that wears a striped dress shirt underneath a v-neck sweater, i will build a delorean so that i can go to the future and kick your ass.
but plastic glasses are A-OK. so rock them at will.
January 2009
17 posts
Watchkinda wish the intro/outro were cleaner, but it took me about 15 min worth of tries to get the nose-to-nose transition
Watchlooks like he was trying to do a 50-50 across the ridge of my nose
“However, there’s that old joke about the guy who had 15 years of experience, the...”
– object mentor
“Most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java...”
– Alan Kay (via marco)
“ARPA succeeded because they basically funded people instead of projects. They...”
– Alan Kay (via azspot) (via marco)
iPhoto vs. Aperture vs. Lightroom
marco:
I’ve been using iPhoto all this time. In the past, I had briefly tried both Aperture and Lightroom, and ultimately I wasn’t convinced that either were worth their learning curves (or $300) for my needs.
Now, things are a bit different. I started shooting RAW instead of JPEG about 6 months ago, and I actually started trying to process my favorite photos a bit before posting them. Nothing...