No Fluff Just Stuff Tampa — Day One
Originally posted 2010-04-16 20:57:05 No Fluff Just Stuff began in Tampa today. This is my second NFJS conference — my first was in 2008. Five of us from work drove down from Jacksonville, all...
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The Best Code I Ever Wrote
Originally posted 2010-04-09 16:37:48 On Christmas 1981, our parents gave my brother and me our first computer: an Atari 400. I was in 7th grade and my brother was in 8th. My parents really...
Tech Books Deals of the Day: Sinatra, Haml, and Heroku
Originally posted 2010-04-02 16:09:57 I buy books, but I swear I could quit any time. The bookshelves in my home swing low like telephone wires, topped with books perched like crows wing-to-wing and two-deep...
Three Egregious Outlook Problems
Originally posted 2010-03-31 10:37:09 My workplace uses the Outlook/Exchange juggernaut to manage email and calendars. This post doesn’t argue for or against that solution — it’s in place, it works, and it allows me...
Surviving Meetings: The Limerick Challenge
Originally posted 2010-03-23 16:24:39 An unknown author penned a self-describing limerick (meta-limerick?) that perhaps represents the pinnacle of its genre: The limerick packs laughs anatomical In space that is quite economical, But the good...
6 Things Apple Should Change on the iPhone–and What You Can Do Until They Do
Originally posted 2009-08-30 13:37:19 Salespeople may live from a suitcase, but I’ve lived from a PDA for over a decade. I’ve bounced from Palm to Windows Mobile to BlackBerry before landing on my iPhone...
The Elite Eight Development Principles
Originally posted 2009-04-18 03:11:31 As a management team, we recently crafted and presented a list of development principles for our developers to follow. The goal was to provide vision and direction, not to dictate...
The Fate of New Computers in My House
Originally posted 2008-12-12 07:27:04 In recent months, two computers in my home reached the ends of their useful lives. The first was the HP desktop that my children use. They’ve loaded so many game...
Technical Teens
Originally posted 2008-11-11 12:33:17 My oldest child turned 15 yesterday. We had planned a family party for him–eat barbecue, open presents, eat cake–but we ended up canceling after he cussed me out at church...
Expiring Ink?
Originally posted 2008-05-07 11:56:22 I walked past our office plotter the other day and noticed this message on the console: This picture is blurry but says, \”Cartridges will expire in days: 8.\” Are you...