MettaProgramming

I love Github. Like tomato sandwiches, Celtic music, beer, and programming- Github is something that, try as I might, I just can’t make myself sick of.1 Recently, I took the Git survey, and it contained an interesting question along the lines of “What do you use Git for?” The answers were things like “configuration files” [...]

I took a trip to Portland recently to traipse through OSCON. I was mostly in the exhibition hall with all the great schwag and company booths– many which had posted job announcements. While there, I was once again frustrated by a trend I keep seeing. The trend can be described as an “arms race of [...]

This is just a post that may help me stop being stupid. Writing it may help carve it into the permanent portion of my memory instead of the “forget about it and then periodically have to think twice and remember that you did something stupid” portion. It’s a small thing, more of an annoyance than [...]

This post is mostly a whiny diatribe on how I’m a stupid idiot. Mostly, when I code, I focus on logic: algorithms, object models and other back-end stuff. All the stuff that’s hard and doesn’t give any sort of gratification to the front-end developers or users because, well, it’s not on the front-end. The stuff [...]

This weekend, during my wife’s birthday celebrations, I talked with someone about my recent programming exploits, including how much fun I’m having programming web applications in Ruby on Rails. The response: “Sure, Ruby’s fun, but it’s not really useful. It’s a cute scripting language, but it can’t scale.” Until recently, this was an opinion that [...]