When combined, Gin and tonic makes a highball cocktail where right now I think I could use a stiff one. I never resort to numbness but it’s been too long a day to find that your Linux server crashed and doesn’t reboot and fsck fails. For some reason the x-server died when starting up Evolution. [...]
I’ve been getting some really strange questions on this blog like “How do I Write Software?” Uh, can you please be more specific? Do you know what you are trying to build, model, etc.? No, I just want to learn how to write software from scratch! So, I put on my Professors cap and believe [...]
There’s a strange trend going around the web that brings me back earlier in my career when we thought software engineering was going the way of widgets or modules. In a nutshell, you basically take a widget here or widget there and integrate them to build a large scale application. We sorta do this today [...]
Sometimes development projects just drag on and on… and sometimes resistance is futile when it comes to NIH. I swear that the Borg got me the last six months when I started switching over to Cake PHP and an MVC Architecture. It’s not that I like or enjoy assimilation, but every time I analyze the [...]
Watch tonight, 9 PM ET/PT, and you’ll see how I tossed in my career as a Software Developer and became one of the top stars in Ice Road Trucker. Joking … Sometimes you have weird dreams like tossing in the towel and taking a life of a less stressful job like a Truck Driver making [...]
Unlike me, Amit the Super Affiliate, probably should stick to PPC traffic cause he can’t pass a simple SEO Cartoon Quiz. Not that I’m a professed SEO expert, I’ve found that if you simply “follow the SEO recipe“, your pages will rank higher in the SERPS. After all, W3.org is the governing organization which all [...]
Guess what? On May 1, 2008 your Quicken 2005 will become NFG when you can’t access your financial accounts anymore. Now of course, if you enter all your records by hand, you don’t have to worry. Perfectly great software going down the drain. Please, someone at Intuit tell me why? The last time I had [...]
Walt at 365 To Freedom wrote a very good review on Dragon NaturalSpeaking. I totally agree with him that it is a very productive tool that everyone should purchase. Walt, this is what I think of the product: Excerpt From My First Dictation (unedited): This is a review of Dragon natural speaking. Getting used to [...]
Leveraging existing technology is always a difficult task. It’s more of a personal challenge to get over the mindset that you can do it better. Perhaps you can, but do you have the time and budget to accomplish the daunting task of building a component that someone already has built for you? There’s a lot [...]
Not Invented Here is a continuing series of articles to help you overcome the hurdles of reusing and leverage existing technology for rapid development. The decision to develop any product in-house takes considerable amount of effort and development time. Reusing components and integrating them with your product reduces the time to delivery and in the [...]