September 2011
1 post
“Don’t make objects that end with ‘er’.”
– Objology: One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
“Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you...”
– Douglas Hofstadter (http://leftnode.com/entry/algorithmically-estimating-developer-time)
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
“pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk...”
– Google Beatbox
November 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
“Writing a Readme is absolutely essential to writing good software.”
– Readme Driven Development
June 2010
1 post
March 2010
2 posts
January 2010
1 post
September 2009
2 posts
July 2009
1 post
“One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a...”
– Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
June 2009
2 posts
The Restoration of Early UNIX Artifacts →
An UNIX Archaeology.
“Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work...”
– Unix philosophy
May 2009
5 posts
Containers and their children →
Good explanation of floated elements in HTML
Awkward Family Photos →
We need both engineers and artists in programming →
In the search of MD5(x)=x →
In the search of MD5(x)=x
“Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science”
– Interoperability Happens - The Vietnam of Computer Science
April 2009
9 posts
“What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?”
– What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? - Stack Overflow
“Help kill Internet Explorer 6”
– IE6 Update
“The Atom Publishing Protocol is a failure”
– Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The Atom Publishing Protocol is a failure
Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams →
Why is programming fun? →
Psychological Criticism of the Prototype-Based... →
“But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us.”
– joshua’s blog: on url shorteners
“every piece of static typing is, basically, intentionally getting in the...”
– Ruby is the Future | Enfranchised Mind
February 2009
1 post
December 2008
4 posts
Your Code Sucks and I Hate You: The Social... →
“it’s still a fundamentally important principal of web design that we are...”
– 24 ways: Easing The Path from Design to Development
November 2008
7 posts
The Girl Effect →
writing | ben fry » It only took 162 attempts, but... →
it’s good having you here!
“Many developers try to plump for a fully-grown all-singing, all-dancing...”
– Advogato: Blurring of MVC lines: Programming the Web Browser.
Rails 2.2 Released - 27 Links and Resources To Get... →
Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Why... →
October 2008
2 posts
Travis Isaacs | My Life In Pixels →
Information Design & Tattoos
September 2008
2 posts
“Too much money is available to IT”
– There is too much money to be made in software development - Raymond Lewallen
WatchHug a developer today
July 2008
5 posts
“It’s an HTTParty and Everyone Is Invited!”
– It’s an HTTParty and Everyone Is Invited! // RailsTips.org by John Nunemaker
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
http://assets.reinh.com/talks/GIT.pdf
4 Simple Steps to Detect & Fix Slow Rails Requests →
“You should always write your code as if comments didn’t exist.”
– Coding Horror: Coding Without Comments