The Perils Of “Academic Outsourcing”
I’ve been having a very interesting discussion with a California CS professor. I happened to catch one of his students red handed putting their homework out for bid on a freelance programmer service. The irony is, the assignment was so simple that a quick search on any search engine would yield over twenty ways to [...]
From The Ashes – The Commodore Phoenix
Reader beware: This whole thing could be a hoax, as Martin Decky pointed out in comments. See this, its identical to the Phoenix. This confirms my concerns about the Commodore logo being absent. To avoid linking and adding to hype, the original post has since been deleted.
Fog Creek Nailed Enterprise Mercurial Needs With Kiln
Today, purely out of boredom, I created a trial Kiln account. Fog Creek is well known for pampering programmers, I wanted to see how they built an offering out of Mercurial. If you are reading this, there is a 90% chance that you found my site via Google while searching for something Mercurial related. Yes, [...]
Fun In Singapore
Now that I’ve had enough time to recover from our recent vacation, I may as well write about it. We took a well deserved family break this past weekend for a short holiday in Singapore. Like most vacations that we take, it was too short. My general rule for travel is, plan to spend at [...]
Getting Into Android – Finally
I stumbled across some news that made my mostly overcast/cloudy afternoon an absolute delight. Tim Bray has joined Google as the resident android pundit. The gloves come off, immediately out of the gate, quoting his blog: The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who [...]
What I Get Out Of Stack Overflow
I received a very interesting e-mail today from a reader who noticed the little box on this blog that displays my participation with Stack Overflow. I’m not going to paste the entire contents of the e-mail, however the sender did bring up some interesting questions: Isn’t it like Facebook, just programming themed? I heard editors [...]
Breaking With Conventional Wisdom – Sometimes
Despite standards, industry accepted best practices, free templates for planning networks and even common sense, not everyone can follow conventional wisdom when deploying a cloud. In fact, at least in my experience, the only times I have been able to do it ‘correctly from the start’ have been when I start completely from scratch. Most [...]
99 Things I Really Need To Do
Ok, well, I’ve done some of them. Thanks, Corey for posting your list Here we go:
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