I’m a little over a week into my web app experiment. The thing that I’ve found the most striking is the rate at which you can add useful functionality to the system, which is both inspiring and fraught with peril simultaneously.
When you’re working on cellular base stations, it takes a while to add a new [...]
I’m finally digging into building a little web app using Pylons. Even though it’s a toy that’ll probably never see the light of day, I’m sticking to some reasonable coding practices, including a good bit of test-driven development. For me, one of the best things about TDD when I’m working on coding anything of non-trivial [...]
I haven’t really mastered the art of the tweet yet. This is mostly because I’m already in IM venues that are second nature to me when I have something to share (some would say “inflict”); it’s not until after I’ve fired something off that it occurs to me, “Huh, that could have been a [...]
This blog is not my first website. Back in the day, when you had to write all the HTML for your web pages by hand, and we didn’t have any of these fancy shmancy web frameworks (is there a ‘Grandpa Simpson’ CSS property?), I had a meager presence on the World Wide Web. [...]
I read this from CodingHorror this morning, and it reminded me of one of the invited talks that jrsantos and I went to see when we were presenting at USENIX ‘98. My external Google-based memory reminds me that it was by Daniel Klein and even provides the slides for it. He seemed comfortable [...]
To provide a bit of structure for my time off, I’ve thought about a few things that I’d like to achieve before I need to seriously think about a new job. Some of my goals for the next month:
Finish cleaning up my resume. I haven’t had a real resume for years, and since I always [...]
Let’s try one journal-style today…
This morning was a little reminder of how easy it would be to squander my time off. Start off blog surfing over a few cups of coffee, followed by checking out a bunch of the shiny WordPress toys and options, and then getting embroiled in a discussion with a housemate, and [...]
Yesterday was my last day at Vanu. I jumped without a new job or really even much of a career plan beyond “stop doing this NOW,” so it looks like I’m going to have some long, uninterrupted free time for the first time since graduating from high school. It’s a bit of a scary place [...]