March 2010
24 posts
Crazy, Heretical, and Awesome: The Way I Write... →
Great discussion about service layers, DI and other ways to decompose bigger Rails apps.
Raiding Eternity →
Must read.
SXSW 2010: Highlights and Trends →
Nice summary, I really have to go there sometime.
Hecker's Nightmare Scenario - A Future Of... →
Good followup discussion about the value of achievements.
Building a world-class team: six mistakes I made... →
I still can’t understand the fascination of US companies to do interviews with basic data structure/algorithm questions.
How to Quit Your Job →
Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: APIs →
I’ve build something similar for Rails which I’d really like to extract.
“In a lot of markets, it’s gotten so bad out there that simply being usable is...”
– Make Less More
Your Version Control and Build Systems Don’t Scale →
It seems server processes for throwing tests against them seems to be the best solution in big projects.
“Don’t get me wrong, the cloud is useful — but I hear some of the dumbest reasons...”
– The cloud is great. Stop the hype.
How Not To Sort By Average Rating →
Contains math
Dealing with $LOAD_PATH properly -- techno weenie →
With bundler and rip and the plain rubygems I find it really complicated to choose a good solution.
Emiller's Balls-Out Guide to Nginx Module... →
I very shortly thought about writing a Nginx module on Friday, this convinced me otherwise.
Achievement Design 101 →
Best advice I’ve seen so far about designing achievement systems
Running Processes →
Very very true
“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first...”
– Programming Books, part 2: The Elements of Programming Style
Books in the Age of the iPad →
Fascinating
Experiment Driven Development - The Post-Agile... →
Good summary
Lean Usability Testing: Current Best Practices and... →
“I don’t read inspiring books. I find that such books give me a temporal high,...”
– How Software Engineers and Designers Can Increase Their Focus
Improving Bug Triage with User Pain →
Now that’s a metric I can get behind
Bayesian Ratings: Your Salvation for... →
4 Months with Cassandra, a love story →