Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Fri, 25 Apr 2008I ripped the WordNet server-side integration out of The Lightweight Visual Thesaurus and shoved in the Twitter API to create Tweet Nodes. It's still at total hack and only works on Firefox, but it's a fun little Twitter conversation browser.
Here's how olabini's Tweet Nodes look today... [/projects/tweet_nodes] permanent link Wed, 23 Apr 2008Paul's Statelessness and Jerry's Truthfulness I enjoyed reading Paul Graham's Be Good. I found this little tidbit of wisdom echoed the words of Jerry Weinberg'a Secrets of Consulting...Being good is a particularly useful strategy for making decisions in complex situations because it's stateless. It's like telling the truth. The trouble with lying is that you have to remember everything you've said in the past to make sure you don't contradict yourself. If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything, and that's a really useful property in domains where things happen fast. --Paul Graham One of the great advantages of not lying to your clients is that you generally don't have to remember what you said. --Jerry Weinberg Sat, 05 Apr 2008Polyglot Programmers User Groups I'm excited to announce the birth of a user group focused on exposing programmers to many different languages and providing a place for programmers to learn how to fit different languages together. Inspired by Neal Ford, Ola Bini, and our own experiences as language-agnostic programmers, Fredrick Polgardy, Tyler Jennings, and I are launching the Polyglot Programmers User Groups. Have a look! |
