Grailbox — software development and where it takes me
The Imperfect Craft | Bitsplitting.org: “I’ve seen what happens to people who cling to outdated standards of craftsmanship: they become self-righteous, bitter, and delusional. Guided only by the hallowed rules of yesteryear’s geniuses, they...
Development / Java / Software
by Rob Warner · Published August 7, 2013 · Last modified April 19, 2020
Cartoons owned Saturday mornings, back when I was young enough to care. The commercials that wedged their way in and between The RoadRunner and The Justice League seemed to hawk either toys or breakfast...
I was filling my gas tank the other day and saw this sign on the pump: Apparently, it’s easier and cheaper to slap a sign on a pump than to fix the software. I...
Last Friday, the operations and infrastructure folks where I work were swinging the non-production environments to a new datacenter. The development managers decided to use this opportunity to challenge the developers to a “codefest”–a...
My 6th-grade daughter currently home-schools, taking her classes online with Florida Virtual School (FLVS). She started the school year using my wife's MacBook Air, but couldn't get the FLVS software working. My wife called...
Tyler Anderson is a boy I’ve known most of his life. When he was an infant, an aneurysm burst in his brain, and he had to fight for his life. Now, he is fighting...
Why your password can’t have symbols—or be longer than 16 characters | Ars Technica: “The password creation process on different websites can be a bit like visiting foreign countries with unfamiliar social customs.” (Via....
Seeking inspiration? | Derek Sivers: “Because nothing is truly inspiring unless you apply it to your work. In other words, your work, itself, is the inspiration.” Stop thinking about it. Stop reading about it....
More on “Where next for Grails”? • GRAILS.IO: “Grails 3.0 will be a reinvention of the framework that you love, and we will be making some hard decisions about what we support in terms...
Today begins the last day of the last LessConf. Ever. And we mourn her passing. Although Steve and Allan, Lords of LessConf, have stated clearly that 2013 marks the last LessConf, they haven’t explained...
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