Thursday, February 28, 2008

Three Simple Rules for Career Satisfaction

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Inspired by some serious honestly and introspection I've recently witnessed, I thought I'd take stock of my career in its present s...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Great Hackers and Boring Work

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If it is possible to make yourself into a great hacker, the way to do it may be to make the following deal with yourself: you never have ...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Firefox Tip: Get Spell Checking on All Form Fields

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This tip is so useful that I just had to share it with my fellow Firefox addicts. We all love Firefox's built-in spell checking feature...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Corollaries to Blodgett's First Law

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When I originally wrote down Blodgett's First Law of Software Development , I also wrote down, stream-of-consciousness style, a bunch of...
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Sunday, February 17, 2008

Paul Graham on Office Space for Hackers

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While re-reading Paul Graham's classic essay, Great Hackers , in preparation for a previous blog post , I took note of a few quotations ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

If Something Seems Boring, Skip It

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...I tried two tactics to increase the amount of money I could charge for my programming services. One of them failed spectacularly, and ...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

^\d+ ?[A-Za-z]+s$ is Officially Played Out

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Can we all please agree that the ^\d+ ?[A-Za-z]+s$ pattern for naming your web thing is officially played out, and just move on? ( I can...
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