March 2008
23 posts
Why does everything suck?: Why I hate VCs →
This is an interesting view on VCs - particularly to me since I’ve been contemplating the whole funding thing a lot recently. :-)
How to Disagree: A Hierarchy
Paul Graham gives a hierarchy of disagreement that I think is quite useful for classifying a lot of internet debates/conversations:
DH0. Name-calling
DH1. Ad Hominem
DH2. Responding to Tone
DH3. Contradiction
DH4. Counterargument
DH5. Refutation
DH6. Refuting the Central Point
How to Disagree
“Alan Kay is purported to have said, “A fresh perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”...”
– The only workable system for generating interesting, cool, and relevant software
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » WebKit achieves... →
Congratulations to the WebKit team for being the first rendering engine to pass the Acid3 test!
How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything... →
A well-written and interesting look at how Apple reallly does “Think Different” - on all levels.
Plain Text Storage / No Database!
I’ve been recently contemplating the use of a plain text files to store information for web applications. It’s not that databases are bad (or that I think they should go away completely); I just think they are way overused.
The idea of not having to install or maintain a database is also appealing to me. Heck, FS code is rock solid and very well tested (again, not that database code...
Lovd By Less -- Who loves you, baby? →
An open source, social networking application.
An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding →
How to use git / github with capistrano →
Ricardo Semler and agile/lean principles -... →
I really like this guy. :-)
doodle - introduction →
A cool way to construct classes and relationships in Ruby. It could be used to quickly create a DSL for creating object graphs.
“Surely you’ve seen other languages based on Prolog, right? No? Why not?...”
– Damien Katz: What Sucks About Erlang
bgMaker ||| Background maker || Tiled Background... →
A tool for making tiled backgrounds for web pages.
“Some don’t understand that objects are supposed to know how to take care...”
– Stevey’s Home Page - The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions
Pownce is competing with 37Signals, not Twitter! →
An interesting commentary. It’s very interesting to me that this sort of commentary is need for a lot of the new web applications. Is it that the apps themselves don’t know what they want to be? Or, are they being intentionally vague with their purpose?
Ebb →
A high performance web server for Ruby apps (faster than Thin!).
Trends: Sun to pursue Java-less Java? →
I’ve been thinking for a while now that Java is heading in the Cobol direction. This statement by Sun’s CEO and other “industry” trends (such as a decline in book sales and new books for Java) only convince me more of that. Java is the next big legacy language. I can only imagine that Cobol felt the same way in the early 90s.
BeanShell - Beany The JavaBean →
This totally made my day.
State of the Computer Book Market, part 4 -- The... →
An interesting analysis of programming language popularity based on book sales.
About This Blog: Custom Textile →
A quick how-to for extending Textile rendering using RedCloth.
I’m wondering if all the data portability hype is just that - hype. I would love for their to be a complete open exchange of information among services, but it seems that from a business perspective it won’t get much traction. I really hope I’m wrong.