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Archive for the ‘tech’ Category
Apache mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet
Friday, August 17th, 2007Waterfall 2006 – International Conference on Sequential Development
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Users aren’t Born Stupid, You Train Them to be That Way
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006Hilarious…. but painfully true:
“Why do those idiots keep hitting that button?” is heard in IT shops much more frequently than “Why don’t we get rid of that button?”
Why? Because we are smarter than they are. That’s why we’re in IT.
How many times have you been annoyed at a website for the number of *Required fields you had to fill out before you could proceed? Now imagine going to that website 200 times a day and having to fill out all those damned *Required fields. Now you start to get an idea of what users go thru when you roll out your flashy new system with all the ooh ahs everyone loved in the demos. There’s a good reason “lakjdlaksdjlaskdjlaskdj” is found in so many databases: users have to type SOMETHING to move on.
Technologist Manifesto…, or Things Everyone in IT Should Know
use Perl | Slides from NY Inside-Out Talk
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006Interesting alternative approach to classes/objects in Perl 5
particletree > Idea x Execution
Friday, September 2nd, 2005One of those tasty, pithy snipets that rings so true:
Colloquy: IRC & SILC Client
Friday, August 19th, 2005Very nice Mac OS X IRC/SILC client:
Colloquy: IRC & SILC Client
If some Software Developers built houses?
Friday, June 10th, 2005I *like* Mac OS X
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005The 512MB of RAM arrived for the G3 laptop.
Aside from the deficiency of not being able to playback movies encoded with anything more CPU intensive than low resolution MPEG1, it’s a very nice setup. I particularly like being able to use the same OS at work and at home.
