Posted in Technology, Politics, Rails, Web 2.0, Blogging, Life on January 1st, 2008 5 Comments »
Zed Shaw is ranting about Rails. The effects are palpable. People are talking about the post. I’ve seen no less than a dozen tweets on Twitter in the last hour or so, and it has been by far the vast majority of the tweets about Rails. The post is clearly consistent with a theme of healthy […]
Posted in Blogging, Life on November 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m going to Oracle Open World this year. This will be the first time for me. I will be in the Sun booth a bit to pay my dues, but also taking some training. I’m a long time Oracle user, my first experience was with Oracle 5, then Oracle 6 on a VAX Cluster. Those […]
Posted in Blogging, Life on November 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
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Posted in Life on September 13th, 2007 No Comments »
A very sharp Twitter friend, Jay Edwards, aka. “meangrape“, is joining Twitter around October 1st.
“I would like to announce that I have just accepted an offer to work at Twitter. I will be starting on October 1.”
I was happily “introduced” to Jay through a sidelong compliment-tweet by James Governor of Redmonk.
“…a blog for dorks […]
Posted in Life on August 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I have a customer facing role, so one of Hugh’s latest cartoons resonates with me. I also haven’t always been the most well behaved customer myself. I think a lot of the bad behavior we see in the corporate world is driven by mind-gripping fear. It doesn’t excuse it, but is helps me to reconcile […]