10 Rules for Startups
Monday, November 28th, 2005This, via Joey de Villa (whose blog is always full of interesting bits and pieces), is a good brief guide to improving your startup's odds.
Archive for November, 2005
This, via Joey de Villa (whose blog is always full of interesting bits and pieces), is a good brief guide to improving your startup's odds.
A Typical Developer’s Typical Day (not humor)
Thursday, November 24th, 2005Jon Erickson, the editor-in-chief of Doctor Dobb's Journal, asked me to write a couple of paragraphs about a typical developer's typical day. As usual, I went a little overboard; unusually, I veered toward the bright side. It's 9:30. You've caught up on email from the contractors in India, skimmed ...
Guide to Google Services
Thursday, November 24th, 2005This guide to Google services contains a lot of stuff I'd never heard of (and would never thought of myself). I wonder how many I can have students use in course assignments?
William Gibson Has a Lot to Answer For
Thursday, November 24th, 2005Yet another 3D visualization of the web, this one inspired by the Sims. See this post for a walkthrough. No idea how useful it is, but it's real purty.
Disclaimers and Apologies
Thursday, November 24th, 2005I'm going to start this review with a disclaimer and an apology. The disclaimer is that the publisher of these two books also published my most recent one; the apology is that when Dave Thomas told me what Chad Fowler's book was going to be called, my reaction was far ...
Breaking and Bulletproofing
Thursday, November 24th, 2005I don't know much about graphic design. In fact, I know almost nothing, and what little I know is probably wrong. I do, however, know about how to use modularity and abstraction to make software more robust and more maintainable. This is why Cederholm's book, Bulletproof Web ...
Fogel’s “Producing Open Source Software”
Thursday, November 24th, 2005A community is more than just a bunch of people. It's a shared set of values, and rules for how to behave. By this standard, the open source community isn't just what some programmers choose to do with their time, and why; it's also how they do it. Karl ...
Covering *All* Your Bases
Thursday, November 24th, 2005The perfect gift for people who worry too much...
Is 5/75 a Passing Grade?
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005Joel Spolsky has posted the reading list for his Software Management Training Program. Only four of the books are in the geek books portion of my reading list (which, BTW, will soon include Doar's Practical Development Enviornments and Fogel's Producing Open Source Software). One of the reasons my ...
First four Summer of Code articles are live
Thursday, November 17th, 2005The first four Doctor Dobb's Journal articles about Google's Summer of Code projects are now on the web: Apache Axis2 JMX Front CL-GODB: A Common Lisp GO Database Manipulation Library Wide Character Support in NetBSD Curses Library gjournal: FreeBSD GEOM Journaling Layer There are more queued up behind them, so stay tuned. Coincidentally, my latest book ...