stupid job postings: “bennies” edition
Recently I saw a job posting that had a list of perks including “free Starbucks coffee, bennies.” Wow, I thought, do they really want to advertise that their developers need tranquilizers (possibly...
View ArticleEmail is not a fat pipe. We forget this at our peril.
The other day we put a prototype build of a web app up for our clients. Fire away at it, we said. Tell us what is wrong with it! We even had a section in the release notes called “How to be a QA...
View ArticleMoved to WordPress
So we’ve moved the site over to WordPress from Typo. We experimented with two rails-based blogging engines, Typo and Mephisto (which seems more popular in the rails world right now), but WordPress is a...
View Article“Release It!” and corporate computing fun
Amy picked up Michael Nygard’s Release It! for me, which is turning out to be a pretty good read. However, it’s also bringing back so many sour memories of operations blowouts from previous work with...
View ArticleRails Ninjas We Are Not
The other day I responded to an ad looking for Rails Ninjas. A very nice guy called me up to talk about his startup. He asked me to talk about our rails skills. Would I describe myself or Max as a...
View ArticleChoking on all the attention! And, Career Advice from Cary Tennis
So we got some really nice links this week, and with the links, a bunch of click-throughs. And some wonderful comments, all of which we deeply appreciate. And now of course, I’m choking . I have about...
View ArticleOn tape, kids, and clients
First, a parent hack. Got kids? You should be reading Parent Hacks. Not got kids? Read on anyway, I relate the whole thing to user requirements at the end. The hack: As soon as your kid is old enough...
View ArticleOn satisfying clients
Our next-youngest client, Ari (4), executed this project without our assistance. It worked out magnificently. Take two glossy magazine pages, a bunch of tape, and wrap pages around feet. Apply tape....
View ArticleO, Happy Solstice, and Business
Kieran Healy of Crooked Timber, talking about the giant Celtic clock at Newgrange, and the Winter Solstice: A society—a civilization, if you like—is a hard thing to hold together. If you live in an...
View ArticleFearless Play. Or, What We Did in 2007
This morning I just rediscovered a year-old post on James Gray’s (of Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac fame) blog, in which he answers the question “How do you get so much done?” I can’t tell you how...
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