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Baby boy gear round-up
With a baby boy on the way (due in early June 2010), I decided to start looking for fun stuff for my lil dude. I thought that maybe I’d have to wait a few years to unleash him on the world, but lo and...
View ArticleShow me the $80 million dollar Blue (#0044cc)
So what’s this fancy shade of blue that made Bing so much money look like? Eh. Doesn’t really do it for me as a blob of color. How about on a link? Well, that is actually quite pleasant against a...
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Animal pictures for baby room
The wife and I are trying to pick out some pictures for the baby’s room. We can’t decide whether to go realistic or whimsical. What works best in a nursery?
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Agile Auto Restoration?
I was over at my buddy Chad’s garage again tonight tinkering with his 1958 Chevy pickup. Chad bought the truck when he turned 16 and planned to restore it and drive it all through college. Ten years...
View ArticleInstalling Aventail VPN (and Sun Java6) on Ubuntu 10.04
The Aventail VPN client requires Sun Java to correctly function on Ubuntu. For whatever reason, the OpenJDK is not sufficient, and the client exhibits numerous bugs. Unfortunately, for Ubuntu 10.04...
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Rally pairing
Iwein Fuld posted a great article about different styles of pair programming. It’s a great post, and I encourage you to read it if you’ve tried pairing but haven’t bought in yet. His rally car analogy...
View ArticlePython decorators, SRP, and testability
On the SRP: For those unfamiliar with the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), it states that there should never be more than one reason for a class to change. That is to say: do one thing, do it...
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A Culinary Analogy
We used to build software like a crappy banana split stand. Grab the banana off the shelf (which probably is about to expire), throw on ice cream, cover it in chocolate, add some cherries, whip cream,...
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Go fast!
I was reading Kill Zone by Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin, and was struck by the personal mantra of one of the Marine snipers: Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Even though lives are not usually on the...
View ArticleMake It A Great Day
Here I stand in the wee hours of the morning, having worked far too many hours without sleep (14.5 in the last day and another few to go if you’re counting), and beginning to feel sorry for myself. I...
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