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Monthly Archive July, 2008

Being Agile

Mark Mzyk July 29, 2008

Being agile does not mean rigidly adhering to a system called Agile.  Being agile means adapting to the situation at hand, no matter how you choose to adapt. That’s my take from Steve McConnell’s latest post and I completely agree with him.

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Designing for the Social Web

Mark Mzyk July 27, 2008

Designing for the Social Web is a recently published book written by Joshua Porter, the man behind the the design blog and website Bokardo.  I’ve been reading Bokardo for a while now, and so when Designing for the Social Web became available, I picked up a copy for myself. The book has to be one [...]

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Thrift

Mark Mzyk July 22, 2008

I’m currently using Thrift at work.  It’s a convenient way to shuttle data across different services and to invoke remote procedure calls.  I like it because of how lightweight it is, so I don’t have to wrestle with code for a kitchen when all I need is a faucet. The one downside to Thrift at [...]

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Farwell to the Best

Mark Mzyk

The man I consider the best technical blogger on the Internet laid down his pen today, giving up blogging.  Raganwald said goodbye. I wish him all the best.  Now comes the hard part: finding other bloggers to replace him in my RSS reader.  I glanced through my reader today and realized that Raganwald was the [...]

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Housecleaning

Mark Mzyk

If you’re reading this post, I’d like to thank you for sticking around.  I’ve been gone from this blog for much longer than I anticipated and I semi-apologize for that.  While I didn’t intend to abandon writing, other events in my life were more important and as a result this blog got the boot while [...]

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