08.04.07 - 04:21pm
I’ve written before about tips for offshoring. One specific thing I said to watch for is the bait-and-switch of talent: during the sales process you’re shown rockstars, but the real code you get is written by clueless newbies. When you set up a project such that you’ve minimized the cost per hour of development, but […]
06.27.07 - 01:36am
LOLCODE is a silly idea that people have apparently turned into actual running code.
05.18.07 - 03:13pm
I have a text file full of links and notes extracted from about a month of reading everything posted to the 2 dozen Ruby, Rails, Postgres, and web tech blogs that I subscribe to via RSS. There’s so much going on in Ruby and Rails in particular, especially when it comes to convenient shortcuts that […]
04.27.07 - 11:17am
I’ve been listening to the Ruby on Rails Podcast over the last month or so, starting with the first episode from way back in July 2005 and now I’m up to the March 10, 2006 episode with Bruce Tate. There’s a great section in this podcast where Bruce describes the immense amount of information that […]
02.13.07 - 01:48am
I have encountered SOAP firsthand once (as opposed to reading about it) and I was kind of appalled at its ickiness. It looks like I’m not the only one; here’s an amusing post from a couple of months ago:
The S stands for Simple, by Pete Lacey.