Nov 8 2008
I came across a nice list of fundamental axioms of development on reddit this morning that made me a little pumped. Pumped because I’m in the middle of a big transition at work that in a lot of respects has me starting over with a new team and a new mandate. I’ll be focusing on solutions, custom work and a view towards short term revenue vs long te…
Sep 6 2008
I’ve been testing the latest nightly builds of firefox 3.1 over the past few days and while generally impressed with the performance improvements in javascript was quite disapointed that it was causing my iMac to go into frequent hangs where I would see the spinning beachball of death for many seconds before I could continue working again. It becam…
Sep 3 2008
A million bloggers all posting on the same topic, why shouldn’t I join in. The Google chrome team has got to be enjoying themselves right now. I read the comic yesterday and really enjoyed it. Seeing a company I can’t help but admire sit down and rethink the browser in so thorough of a manner is inspiring. Even just the QA involved is pretty damn i…
Aug 9 2008
Regression is a nasty issue. Ongoing regression from bug fixes can be a pretty clear indicator that there are some serious problems with your code base, your process, your team or all of the above. As an example case consider the effect of moving from 1 in 5 of all bug fixes causing an unrelated issue to crop up to 1 in 10. Given an imaginary scena…
Jul 21 2008
One of my side projects at work right now is documenting the architecture of a product that has already been built but will be going through a re-architecting with a focus on a more robust schema and applying some of the learning we've gone through in discovering exactly how our product is being used and ways in which our users want to extend the p…
Jul 20 2008
I just finished my first assignment in a beginning networking course I’m taking and I am so far pretty impressed with how interesting this stuff is. I have a working knowledge of networking that includes decent understanding of the application layer, high level knowledge of the transport layer and basically just awareness of the link layer. It’s pr…
Jul 19 2008
I’m supposed to be studying for a challenge exam I’m writing this week in “Advanced” Operating Systems. Instead I spend a good chunk of the day today working on blogquotes in between watching/playing with my daughter. I can justify this time spent because I did all of this work exclusively from a bash shell using vi to refresh myself on some of the…
Jul 17 2008
I can’t say I enjoy writing in the blogger post interface, in fact it’s pretty frustrating. For a while there I was using google docs to write posts(which I loved), then I would just publish to my blog. That actually worked great until the actual publishing process which doesn’t allow you to control the title very effectively and totally messed up …
Jul 17 2008
We've recently put Microsoft's managed add-in framework (part of .NET 3.5) into very effective use building a plug-in system for a large asp.net application at work. Essentially the framework in place allows other developers (and our own team for out of stream releases) to develop new functionality for our platform that runs the entire life-cycle f…
Jun 26 2008
So I have a great personal distrust and disgust in the way copyright law has continually degraded and been abused by large corporations over the past 30 or 40 years . (Thanks Mickey!) I cringe at the idea of the RIAA sueing people to protect their broken business model and laugh my ass off when bands like Metallica (2) and Kiss make total asses of …