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Rock Band
...may be the greatest game to ever be invented. -
Frijoles
I grew up in Texas. And in Texas, beef is king. But beans ain't far behind.
I've spent the last twelve years looking for a truly great pot of frijoles, or pinto beans. I asked my mother for her recipe, but this is what I got:
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Java is the worst thing to happen to software development education
We see a lot of resumes and interview a lot of people. Our rate has been pretty steady-state at about 10-12 resumes per week; about 8 make it to the phone screen; a third of those to the code sample; and we wind up averaging about 1.5 in-person interviews per week ( Read more... ) -
My favorite new websites
There should be some kind of arms-reduction treaty on website proliferation, because if they keep coming up with new ways to get stuff done, I'll never get anything done.
It lets me feed my physical object addiction:
Lulu
Oddly enough, I've managed to reduce the amount of stuff I own by turning it all into books! The books are so much smaller ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Architecture (I)
Architecture:
...the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components, the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships between them... [Wikipedia]
...the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other, and to the environment, and the ( Read more... ) -
Wash + Water = ?
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Mentoring
I've instituted a process in my group at work wherein each developer spends a few hours each week actively studying a specific problem domain in software development. Thus far both of my reports have chosen to study formal software architecture ( Read more... ) -
Kim Stanley Robinson gets it
She looked up at him. "What do you think science is for ( Read more... ) -
Software development is hard work
Software development is a practice only tangentially related to programming. It is true, you cannot do the one without the other; but the things that make a good programmer have little to no bearing on what makes a good software developer. I might draw an analogy: fluency in a language is probably necessary if you are to write great literature in ( Read more... )