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The Agnostic Developer
I think all developers (especially when they are young) have walked into a new programming job (or client) and instantly thought all the existing code is crap and needs to be re-written. We all have our own nuances and style of coding.
Reg Braithwaite wrote a small story about the different types of developers. His story [...]
Links 5-12-2008
Del.icio.us is now blocked at work. I have no way of saving my links.
Here’s a few good links I found browsing Mike Gunderloy “A Fresh Cup.” (I really miss his old site larkware)
Widgetfinger – CMS that is designed to automate as much as possible of very small sites.
LiveHTTPHeaders – Header-monitoring add-in for Firefox. [...]
I believe in Harvey Dent
There’s a Dark Night trailer here. The movie looks fantastic!
ibelieveinharveydent.com
Archaic programs like Lotus Notes
This made my day…
oDesk is a site where freelancers can bid on jobs. One job on the board is for someone to design an email announcement… inviting people to their events.
There’s a classic line in the job posting:
“We will launch the email announcement from a Gmail account, but it will ultimately reach email boxes powered [...]
Lotus RSS Advertising
I just about fell of my chair. A Lotus Domino ad. A real Lotus Notes/Domino ad… in Boing Boing’s RSS Feed.
I like it. I am not sure that Boing Boing is an appropriate feed to place ads. They tend to have some NSFW content. But hey… I hope it works.
Busy vs Productive
Brad Bollenbach at 30Sleeps has written a great comparison of busy people vs productive people.
A few of my favorites:
Busy
Productive
Rolls their own
Uses someone else’s
Sees the toolchain as a competitive advantage
Sees the user-kickassness as a competitive advantage
Writes a detailed specification
Implements a prototype
Answer this: Is IE better than Firefox for buying event tickets?
I just spent 40 minutes trying to buy Cubs/Brewers tickets on February 23rd. I launched two different browsers: Firefox and Internet Explorer. MLB.com has a new feature this year called the Virtual Waiting Room while you wait during the peak periods.
Twice, I was able to log into MLB.com, go through the “virtual waiting room” and [...]
I'm off PlanetLotus (in theory…)
I asked Yancy Lent (the creator of PlanetLotus) to remove my blog from his Lotus Notes blog site.
Why?
I lost the will to blog. I don’t write for the masses. I write for the eight people who give me chance when they see me pop up in their RSS reader. It’s hard writing for 400 Lotus [...]
Let it snow…
Raise your hand if you used your snow blower more than three times in the past 24 hours.
Fujitsu LifeBook U810
I drooled over someone’s LifeBook U810 at Lotusphere last week. What a sweet little package for less than $1000 (in the stores).
I really wanted to try out the keyboard but I felt a little strange asking to touch another man’s laptop.
p.s. Don’t try and convince me that the ASUS eee pc is better. I want [...]
