What’s the difference between a spectator and a Newb? In order to achieve spectatorhood, you really just need to run through a few samples in books and tutorials. If you want to be diligent spectator, you can even go as far as tweaking a few of the samples before passing judgement, but that is not [...]
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I’m still feeling sleepy from my late night of figuring out how to add fancy Ajax effects and pagination to my wife’s new RoR e-commerce site that we are getting close to launching. Here’s some light Monday reading… On the Difference between Newb and n00b – Don’t know the difference between a Newb and a [...]
I’m taking a needed break from implementing PCI compliance security features in order to bring you some of my favorite links from my weekend blog reading. Version control with Subversion: so easy my wife can do it – There is no way that Jimmy Bogard didn’t get at least one night on the couch for [...]
General Thoughts on Podcasting When given a choice between listening to a podcast and reading a book, blog, or tutorial, podcasts would always be my last choice. Talking is not a very high bandwidth form of communication in general when compared to reading and its overall value decreases even more when it is purely passive [...]
Take a break from watching the stock market tank and your retirement savings dwindle and check out the following links. Growing Up Geek (A Hanselmeme) – Leon Bambrick (Secret Geek), a blogger after my own heart, posted the best meme response ever. After confessing that he used to beat up kids that looked like Scott [...]
…and I’m not just talking about my recent eBay exploits or that million dollar lottery in Ghana that I keep getting notified about via email. Jurgen Apello, Dutch blogger extraordinaire, just notified me that I won his $100 Book Contest for my Driving Forces Behind My Coding Compulsion post, which I submitted a couple of [...]
A few good reads I discovered while recovering from my 16 mile training run over the weekend in preparation for the upcoming New York marathon next month. Transitioning between consulting projects - Random reflections by Jimmy Boggard that contain good insights on the effect that absorbing new team members has on productivity and team dynamics. [...]
I spent all my blogging time this week brushing up on my paltry Ruby on Rails skills for an upcoming personal project and reading a most excellent book called The Kite Runner, my first foray into non-brain candy fiction in over a year. Here’s a few link recommendations to tide you over until I get [...]
