July 2008
19 posts
Can you be a self-respecting Web developer without... →
I haven’t run across a web developer who doesn’t know much HTML, but I have run across plenty of developers who avoid SQL like the plague.
“A schroedinbug is a bug that manifests only after someone reading source code or...”
– Unusual software bug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Batman’s not as unique as people think. Grant Bob Kane’s Gotham is New York and...”
– Teddy in tights? « The Edge of the American West
“#19: Wasted time during the fuzzy front end. The “fuzzy front end”...”
– Classic Mistakes Enumerated
“2. Abandon any effort to imagine a terrorist target list.”
– Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Our Foolish Security Theater
“Turkey now boasts almost 3m Facebook users, more than any country apart from the...”
– Intellectuals: ‘How Gülen triumphed’ by Tom Nuttall | Prospect Magazine July 2008 issue 148
Fatal Exception | Neil McAllister | InfoWorld |... →
On the other hand, this fragmentation of the market creates a kind of skills crisis. No one Web developer can excel at all of these technologies; the development methodologies behind some of them are virtual opposites.
“We pan to a beautiful woman: platinum blonde with a huge rack. She is the...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Michael Bay’s Rejected ‘The Dark Knight’ Script
“I have a telephone instrument on my desk. I rarely use it. Most of the calls I...”
– Douglas Crockford (via azspot).
There’s a phone next to my desk. I don’t know the extension. It usually says “Incoming Call :002”. I have no idea what that means.
If you call, I won’t hear it, because I wear headphones all day. I won’t see the blinking light, because the phone’s not important...
“Compromise, hell! … If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should...”
– Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86 - Yahoo! News
“Process theatre is important. Without it, you can’t create the...”
– Process Theatre
“You know how Bruce Schneier uses the term Security Theatre to describe measures...”
– Process Theatre
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