If you’re in the business of developing software, you should read the “Joel On Software” book. Period.
(Shortest review I’ve ever written.)
While I don’t agree with everything Joel has written, I find most of what he writes to be a clear exposition of common-sense approaches to managing software development. No BS, just simple stuff that works. [...]
I’m transitioning my daily work desktop from OS X Leopard to Kubuntu Hardy. (I’ll be writing more about that in the future.) My job is split between managing people and doing development and system administration for a bunch of Ubuntu boxes, so running the same platform that I’m administering makes a lot of sense. I [...]
I recently interviewed a very intelligent, capable programmer who was near the start of his career. I decided not to make him an offer, and he sent a very nice follow-up e-mail asking for tips on how to present himself better. I figured my reply might be very useful to other applicants, so I’m posting [...]
First, the epiphany — despite all the fires, and multiple top priorities, and projects, and all the other fireballs of stress that scream over my desk — there is nothing I can do for Dakim that’s more important than hiring. Over the next two years, I’m probably going to add significant headcount to my department [...]
I’ve been working on the spec for SPBS — it’s slow going, as my real job has been taking most of my focus. But I realized that in designing the templating system for the blog, I’m actually designing a domain-specific mini-language. I think I’m going to reread that chapter of The Art of Unix Programming.
But [...]
And by “Launch,” I mean “I’m starting to write it.” There’s a long way between that and a completed program. But you can check my progress at SPBS’ Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/spbs/
I’ve written an introduction to SPBS, and the reasons I’m writing it here, at http://code.google.com/p/spbs/wiki/SPBSIntroduction
Although I’m not at all sure about the “BioWiki” name. And “AutoBioWiki” is even worse. But in the fine tradition of Anne Lamott’s “shitty first draft,” here’s
http://biowiki.sudosu.net
(I’m keeping the shitty first draft to myself, at least for now.)
I lived with it for ages. I tried to fix it on my own, by selecting different emulation types. Finally I Googled for it. And pretty much instantly found the answer:
python `python -c “import pimp; print pimp.__file__”` -i readline
Moral? If at first you don’t succeed, Google. If Google fails, try, try again.
Update: And to [...]
Summary: Visitors to Canada.com (not hyperlinked for obvious reasons) will have their browsers hijacked, and a series of prompts will download and attempt to install malicious software. This will happen ONLY on the first visit from an IP address. Subsequent visits to Canada.com will not experience the browser hijack.
NOTE: I have only experienced this on [...]
I follow the Ubuntu Geek blog, and have found some very useful tips there. However, there’s a problem with their latest tip, “Howto Check you (sic) external IP Address from the command line.”
Some background: There’s a very useful website located at whatismyip.com, which reports the IP you used to connect to the site. If you’re [...]