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Wanted: Ruby on Rails hackers for Manila (Philippines) office
Pandora Squared with offices in Manila (Philippines), San Francisco (US), and Sydney (Australia) is looking for RoR programmers, and graphic designers. They are also looking for trainees eager to learn RoR. This is now your chance to have fun with programming and earn at the same time!
Read the job ad here.
There are some […]
Top 20 Replies by Programmers when their programs do not work
A friend sent me this email. He says it is from the David Letterman show.
20. “That’s weird…”
19. “It’s never done that before.”
18. “It worked yesterday.”
17. “How is that possible?”
16. “It must be a hardware problem.”
15. “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
14. “There is something funky in your data.”
13. “I […]
Interruption is your enemy
You are working on a new credit card fraud detection algorithm when your Yahoo Messenger alert starts blinking on the lower right corner of your Windows desktop. It’s your Systems Analyst asking for a meeting for a new credit card report. “I am free tomorrow 10 am” is your answer. After […]
Looking for a cool Ruby on Rails startup?
Mark Buenconsejo is looking for Ruby on Rails developers to join their startup. Some cool benefits include:
Free lunch and dinner.
Free coffee, softdrinks, and beer (occasionally).
Use your spare time for other activities and side projects.
Checkout the job post.
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Scheduling tips
If you are developing software for yourself, a schedule may not matter at all. But if you have a delivery date to meet, programmers to motivate, and clients to satisfy, you need that schedule.
It’s no easy task. Even after developing software for almost a decade (from assembly languages to Ruby on Rails), my schedules still […]
Can Rails scale?
Most people (especially Java guys) I introduced Rails to wonder if it can scale for the “enterprise”. Probably the lack of “enterprise edition” makes them doubtful. How about this — last March 4, Robot Co-op served 2,587,240 requests through their Rails application. Is that proof enough?
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Tom DeMarco on methodologies
The obsession with methodologies in the workplace is another instance of the high-tech illusion. It stems from the belief that what really matters is the technology… Whatever the technological advantage may be, it may come only at the price of a significant worsening of the team’s sociology.
— Tom DeMarco
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Why I switched to Firefox from the guy who designed IE
Scott Berkun worked on IE 1.0 through 5.0 and wrote the UI specs. For a UI guy, I was actually surprised he was a late adopter of Firefox but he admits he held on onto his IE out of love. Can’t blame the guy.
He also has written a must-have book on project […]
Rails creator on opinionated software
Opinionated software was a term I coined to describe the rebellion against the fallacy of objective software. That software should be as configurable as possible from the outset to allow every user to bend it exactly to their needs. Opinionated software dares say the customer is not always right. That not everything should be a […]
Software Development Fitness Tips #4
Getting Real: Take it slow if you need it fast
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