March 2009
3 posts
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Becoming Productive in... →
2 $5 screencasts that give tips on how to use XCode more efficiently.
February 2009
5 posts
Speed Kills →
Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin:
If you want to be a craftsman. If you want to be someone who builds software quickly, accurately, and repeatably. If you want to be someone that your employer respects and values. If you want to respect yourself. Then remember this simple fact. Speed Kills.
Interview With Ward Cunningham, Inventor of the... →
This interview on FLOSS Weekly of Ward Cunningham by Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz is really remarkable. I did not know that the wiki and extreme programming (now usually known as Agile programming) were invented by the same guy. Even more enlightening was to hear him describe what the two have in common… Both allow for “incompleteness” while still being useful. Wikis allow for...
The Joy of Multiple Children
Holding my fourth child, and second son, Ransom, I’m thinking about how my experience of him is different from my first child. With our first child we noticed a lot of things that weren’t specific to her. Things that had more to do with the novelty of having a baby and seeing a little person develop from the very beginning. But with subsequent children, we have focused less on this...
What It Feels Like To Be A Libertarian →
How does it feel to be a libertarian? Imagine what the internal life of Cassandra must have been and you will have a pretty good idea.