In the previous blog posts I discussed the importance of getting enough sleep and physical exercise. For this post I want to provide a quick shout out of the social media diet that I’m currently trying out. My name is Jan and I don’t have a Facebook or a Netlog account of some kind. I […]
Read MoreI have been spending a lot of time working with some CMS systems recently.? I won?t name names but it could be Drupal, WordPress, DNN, Joomla etc ? doesn?t matter.? I have been working with two different systems for two unrelated projects that happened to arrive around the same time. I admit that I am […]
Read MoreThe older I get the more I am irritated by the use of sex appeal in corporate events. People who know me personally can attest that I am FAR from a prude. I can be pretty darn crude and inappropriately-humored with the best of them. Yet, recent events have gone far enough that I thought […]
Read MoreIn the previous blog post, I discussed the importance of getting enough sleep every single night. For this post I want to emphasize the importance of physical exercise. I’m writing these words after having run approximately 15 kilometers. This I do three times a week, every week, throughout the whole year with only a few […]
Read MoreJust a quick note to mention a new tool Peter Provost turned me onto yesterday. I am digging SubSpec. It’s another Context/Spec, BDD-ish tool that sits in the middle somewhere between executable specs and a low-level AAA simple assert model. It’s appropriate anywhere Machine Specification would be appropriate, for example. The code below also uses […]
Read MoreWhen I was reading Just for Fun, I came across this paragraph in the book where Linus Torvalds stated that he never missed a good night?s sleep during the early days when he was hacking together the first version of the Linux kernel. In fact, he clearly stated in his book that he doesn?t allow […]
Read MoreThere was a time when I thought it might be worth it to try and create a Software Professional Code of Ethics. I no longer think the effort is worth it as there is already a big enough rat hole in this space as evidenced here. At the time this held my interest I read […]
Read MoreMigrations are very powerful. When they work it?s awesome, but when things go wrong trying to determine what happened can be extremely frustrating. I have spent quite a bit of time mastering a process that works well for me. Here are a few pointers I have learned along the way: 1 – Do not […]
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