January 2012
3 posts
“How many SEO experts do you need to change a lightbulb lightbulbs buy light...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
“Would an engineer design a small, single lane bridge for a rural Northumberland...”
– Alex Reid writes that there’s no shame in code that is simply “good enough”. This is a pragmatic perspective that is worth keeping around. Found via my equally pragmatic friend, Matt Allen. (via timriley)
October 2011
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Clients From Hell: Client: “Can you make it so... →
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Can you make it so when people land on our website, it’s, like, all black with stars coming out of the screen all whoosh whoosh (does the action) like in that screensaver?” Me: “…” Client: “With the music from Star Wars.” Me: “…” Client: “And it does that for, like, a minute,…
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September 2011
2 posts
Why Rails has been so successful
I had lunch today with Engine Yard CTO, Tom Mornini and we got chatting about why Rails has become so successful and popular.
We both agreed that it probably isn’t so much Rails itself (though it is an awesome framework that makes things much easier) that is at the core of its success. Instead Rails owes a lot of its success to the following three things:
Agile Culture
Rails tends to go...
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August 2011
3 posts
Sound familiar?
clientsfromhell:
Two days after agreeing on a final draft for a project.
Client: You really need to hurry up with this! It’s costing me money not having the new concept live! Rush it, work on it 24/7, whatever you need to do.
Me: (at 3am) Alright, I’ve got it all finished for you. Ready to upload whenever you are.
Client: OK, I’ll have the content written in a week or two
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Oh dear
clientsfromhell:
A client was upset that the animated .gifs from his site weren’t animated when printed out. I tried to explain that it simply wasn’t possible.
Client: Why are you lying to me? I know it’s possible - have you not seen the moving posters and pictures in Harry Potter!?
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
6 posts
10,000 Year Clock →
timriley:
Jeff Bezos is helping to build a clock that will last 10,000 years:
As I see it, humans are now technologically advanced enough that we can create not only extraordinary wonders but also civilization-scale problems. We’re likely to need more long-term thinking.
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components...”
– Stephen Hawking
WatchFuck you, Pay ME! Great video for software guys and web devs alike.
May 2011
2 posts
Today is national geek day
But I think its high time we broke down some stereo types. News.com.au (the insightful media site that it is <coughs>) listed the rights to be overweight and to not have any friends as traits of the geek. I don’t think thats what a geek is at all. In my opinion, a geek is:
Someone who loves science, knowledge and technology
Someone who is analytical
Someone who enjoys solving...
“But there’s something about it. There’s something not real about it. Oh shit and...”
– Paul Campbell’s RailsConf 2011 talk reads amazingly as an essay, and would have been even better to see in person. Definitely feeling a bit of RailsConf envy right now. (via timriley) — Tim, me too. Me too.
April 2011
3 posts
“Just a quarter of the food we waste in the first world could feed all the people...”
– Hungry Beast, April 2011
“Imagine you’re tasked with building a computer controlled gun that can...”
– Ten Lessons from GitHub’s First Year (via oliyoung)
March 2011
7 posts
The Office Workout
I have been working some really long hours lately to try and get some projects done while we are understaffed. As a consequence, I haven’t been down to Crossfit Adelaide for a few weeks now! Especially with all of the traveling, this has been really hard.
So, in order to try and maintain some level of fitness I have devised a set of workouts that I can do in the office (while my tests are...
“Sometimes I wonder what size of catastrophe it takes to wake us all up as a...”
– brizk: One catastrophe to rule them all. (via timriley)
February 2011
2 posts
“Sad how our lives seem to be measured by the lifespans of dogs and gas bottles.”
– John Draper, 2011
January 2011
4 posts
“Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk...”
– Unknown
WatchWow this is intense! Not good if you don’t like heights!
December 2010
1 post
Random Jamming at Bree’s house. Bongos,...
November 2010
6 posts
“I invent nothing, I discover”
WatchFacebook’s new messaging system could revolutionize the way we communicate.
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without”
– Confucius
Cool It! This looks interesting... →