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Agile Rocket Construction
Having been generally interested in space exploration for many years, when a friend of mine suggested a road trip to go to the X-Prize Cup, how could I turn it down? Six of us went and had a blast at...
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Jumpstarting your Ruby/Rails environment
I’ve been generally interested in both Ruby and Rails since hearing Dave Thomas speak about them at a conference a year ago, but never really had the time to sit down and focus on them, so apart from...
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Startups Shouldn’t Use Open Source?
Suzanne Williams at Venture Law Lines writes “If you want to sell your own proprietary software, make sure you have a strictly enforced policy against using open source.” If only all my competitors...
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You Can’t Keep Them Happy If You Don’t Know What They Want
There have been a couple of notable lists written past year about how to get and keep talented developers — first Joel Spolsky wrote A Field Guide to Developers, and then Rob wrote Nine Things...
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Ebay’s Architecture – Divide (partition) and conquer
InfoQ has a great video interview with Randy Shoup, in charge of search at Ebay, where he talks about several things, including their heavy use of partitioning, the unique issues you run into with such...
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engineers_for_productivity
Auren Hoffman has a good post on TechCrunch about how now might be a great time to cherry-pick the best software engineers available, and how it can pay off not only in the short term, but also over...
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The 5 Stages of API Grief
1. Denial – “Surely that’s not how their API works!” 2. Anger – “WTF are they thinking? Why would anyone do that?” 3. Bargaining – “Hey, would you be willing to change your API? I can make a pull...
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