That’s right. Wide is in this season. Fortunately I’m not talking about waist sizes. I’m referring to display size. Ever since I bought my new notebook and finally got a larger monitor at work, I’ve become a die-hard fan of wide-screen monitors. I’ve been completely spoiled by WSXGA+ (1680×1050). I can’t believe I was even able to use [...]
When we last left our intrepid developer he was attending a local RA (Refactors Anonymous) meeting. Let’s see what’s happening this week:
Me: “Hello everyone. My name is Tim.”
Group: “Hi Tim!”
Me: “I write software.”
Group: “So do we!”
Me: “I’ve been writing software for over 6 years now.”
Group: “That’s great Tim!”
Me: “And I write bad software.”
Group: There’s nervous stares [...]
Wow! Don’t dare say anything negative about Apple. At least if you don’t want to be flamed. Robert Scoble ranted about his bad experience with an update to the Mac OS and the long knives came out. Some people even went as far as to call Scoble a Microsoft shill!?! Do they even read this [...]
Ryan Naraine of ComputerWorld compiled a list of the top 10 web annoyances. I know this is too easy, but my number one web annoyance is top 10 lists. I just did a quick google search for top 10 lists, and I got back 1.5 million results. It’s like everyone is taking blogging advise from Casey Kasem.
So now [...]
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Nostalgia is defined as a longing for the past. Many things give me a feeling of nostalgia: old pictures, 80’s music, Robert Aspirin books. The list goes on. It’s just not my development environment, and it better not be for you either. As developers we should be moving forward with not just with our technologies, but [...]
