Holding a Program in One’s Head
In fact, if you look at the way software gets written in most organizations, it’s almost as if they were deliberately trying to do things wrong. In a sense, they are. One of the defining qualities of organizations since there have been such a thing is to treat individuals as […]
Its been two years in at IBM, so that is about time for the “I’ve Been Moved” pseudonym to take affect. Starting this past week (since I was on vacation the week prior) I left the yellow box plastered walls of Lotus and head to a group inside of the CIO office.
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You have used firebug. I’ve been an avid firebug user the minute I first heard about it — starting with the initial appeal of CSS inspection, then integrated error reporting, and then getting hooked on the interactive javascript console. Firebug .3 was a big step up from the built in DOM inspector, but still it […]
Art is “the documentation of a thousand interesting decisions”.
Signs of Art from Rands in Repose… you’ll have to read this (at least the beginning) to get context of what I’m talking about… or you could miss these small letters and get confused… your choice
Now I don’t agree that this is the precise definition of art […]
Here a bit of a change from the semi-regular updates I’ve been posting. I figured that I could give a small review on a couple of books I’ve read recently. These books fill an interesting niche; one that suites myself well, but possibly not many others.
The author of these books is Donald E. Knuth. For […]