Programmer’s Paradox

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.

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 of [...]

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 the [...]

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 only [...]

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 [...]