My wife had a resolution for 2005 of “read 50 books”. With one month left she is about half way done. Even though she won’t make her resolution, I’m still pretty impressed with how much reading she is able to get done while balancing full time work and school. If I had […]
Why the Lucky Stiff does it again. I don’t know how long this has been up there, but its definitely cool. (via digg)
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Thanksgiving was good times. We went to Milwaukee yesterday for my side of the family, and had Amanda’s side of the fam to our house today. Yesterday we had something like thirty people in my sister’s house, which was a bit chaotic and claustrophobic, but it was still fun.
Today was quite […]
Joel has posted a suggested reading list for his software management training program. Lots of classic software development titles and general business titles in his list.
I’ve only read five of the books, amazingly, with all the reading I do: The Mythical Man Month, Pragmatic Programmer, Microserfs, the New New Thing, and The Tipping […]
An extra chromosome isn’t awful - The Boston Globe - via Unresolved References.
“Since screening became a routine part of prenatal care in the early 1990s, 80 to 90 percent of babies considered likely to be born with Down syndrome (the tests are not perfect) have been eliminated.”
So very sad.
So-called “guidelines” for TDD from Microsoft using Visual Studio 2005
I heard Adam Corolla’s farewell show for Loveline a little while ago. No matter who they get to replace him, it just won’t be the same. I can’t imagine the show being the same without Adam’s rants and constant abuse of Drew. You’ll be missed, Adam.
Simple question - assuming we are talking about an app that is at least moderately sized (not a one-off or prototype), when would you not want to use a library or some sort of wrapper around the XmlHttpRequest object?
I had some discussions at work recently about this, where I was pushing for DWR [...]
As has been written about many times before, having a bunch of different feeds with different names and formats is horrible from a usability standpoint and just dumb to begin with. Even I find it confusing when I try to add a blog to Bloglines and I'm confronted with five different options, and I'm [...]
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