Argh. Apache vs Skype
So I’m relatively new to Skype. Love it, great free service, blah yada blah. Great for talking to the family at home. It never occurred to me that when Apache started complaining that it couldn’t...
View Articlemore on indicators: Little Notes
If there are any repeat readers (hi! and welcome back!) you might remember my post on the T-shirt index. I finally got around to reading Freakonomics, which was recommended to me by somebody who read...
View ArticleThe number one rule.
Warning: This post contains many occurrences of the word "arse". ("ass" if you are American) If you’ll be offended, you should stop reading now. So, in my talk at kiwifoo I talked about hiring and...
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It had to happen.
I think I must be the only person in the PHP blogosphere who hasn’t said something about Ruby On Rails. It seemed about time We’ve been working for a while on a RoR project. Originally it came in as...
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Do all frameworks really suck?
Ahem. So anybody that’s known me for a while has likely heard me say something similar to what is quoted in Cal’s article about OSCON. I should clarify because I hear jokes about "Tell us what you...
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Losing my religion
You’re over at a friend’s house – let’s call him Bob – and after opening a beer he invites you out to the garage to see something. On the wall hangs a reciprocating saw. You notice that there are no...
View ArticleAbysmal customer service
Recently I have been the recipient of a number of incidents of abysmal customer service and I really need to vent. The worst of all is Bank of America. They are as extraordinarily polite as they are...
View ArticleWhy Open Source rocks
The interview I did with Bruce Byfield at OpenWeb Vancouver has been posted on linux.com. In it, I talk about why Free and Open Source Software makes for better programmers, how to make developers...
View ArticleBooks change the world
Last week I read a tweet that really got my goat, so much so that I stewed on it all weekend. The author, who is someone from the tech/startup community, said, to Tim O’Reilly no less: “No-one ever...
View ArticleAll systems suck
I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea lately. I’ve spent a lot of years as an engineer and consultant fixing other people’s systems that suck, writing my own systems that suck, and working on...
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