April 2009
4 posts
Power and Resposibility
I’m always a few degrees separated from current events in technology, so the conversations are already dying down about the GoGaRuCo CouchDB presentation while I’m just getting up to speed. So if you’re even further removed than me and don’t know what I’m talking about, please educate yourself about the situation by reviewing the offending presentation, reading the...
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Jason Gorman riffed on a blog post by David R. Heffelfinger in which David was lamenting the move away from the sort of setups that computers of the 80’s shipped with. Specifically, David misses BASIC and the way that “it was expected for end users to write their own applications.” According to David, ever since the 90’s, it has become increasingly difficult to simply buy...
Sudoku Scanner
A few months back I was riding the train home from the Studio. I had recently finished a big writing push on my book and so I finally had some free time on the train again. So I just sat there for a while doing nothing (not as easy as it sounds). That’s when I noticed a woman playing Sudoku. I considered passing the time by playing Sudoku myself. And then I remembered writing an...
My Take on Master Craftsman Teams
I enjoyed reading Uncle Bob’s post on Master Craftsman Teams. My first reaction was that I was happy that Bob was focusing on the people-side of software craftsmanship to balance out his ongoing message of technical excellence. My second reaction was that of being slightly amused since I knew that Bob was theorizing and proposing these ideas based on his decades of experience, but not...