July 2009
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sundayconf
I was looking forward to watch videos from the recent OSCON conference and I was impressed by the lack of them. I hope this is just a timing issue and that they really recorded more than 6 given the big amount of interesting sessions that happened during last week. A Brief History of Software - Michael Lopp - OSCON 2009 This is a short 18 minutes video where Michael Lopp looks back on a company...
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The Get Out Of Jail FREE card
I am hearing over and over again the same type of excuses. It’s not specific to a certain group.
“I don’t have the time to go to the coding dojo. I am too busy and my deadline is coming up.” Usually, this excuse is right after a comment or complaint like this one:
“You know, all this TDD stuff is good and all that, but it will never work on my daily job.”...
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First sundayconf
I selected 2 sessions for this sundayconf: 1. Artisanal Retro-Futurism crossed with Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism - Brian Marick
There was a lot of buzz about Brian’s talk this week on twitter and boingboing. I have been following ARxTA and I was looking forward to his talk on the subject. It was fantastic. Watch the video here.
2. Hurting code for fun and profit - Ryan Davis
During...
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“School is temporary. Education is not. If you want to prosper in life: find...”
– James M Bach. Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar. Free download at http://www.simonandschuster.com/specials/secrets-of-a-buccaneer-scholar/
A Coding Dojo FTW!
In the next coding dojo that we plan to host later this month, we want to repeat the exercise of a roman numeral converter. We did this one before, but we are adding a little twist (or actually 9 little twists to make it more interesting)
The converter is pretty simple: you enter “III”, it returns you a “3”. You enter “XXIV”, it returns “24” and so...
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Hello World (again)
I confess. I liked wordpress but it always seemed heavy and bloated and difficult to use. Spam was a problem so I had to disable comments from my posts. Hosting was expensive (in my case). I had to manually upgrade every new release. So I decided to turn the page and discontinue my updates to http://sbastn.com I have been thinking about making the jump for a while. And today is the day.
The...
“Implementing caching would take thirty hours. Do you have thirty extra hours?...”
– Professor Owen Astrachan during 23 Feb 2004 lecture for CPS 108