An interesting story about DreamHost being publicly, brutally honest . Read the comments, they are funny… it seems that mistakes and moments of incompetence are understandable and even forgivable as long as you are are honest. Keeping your…
No offense to Phil Haack , but his timing might be a bit off. With the book not being published until November it probably cannot be the summer’s must read book - but it definitely will be the Must Read Book of the holiday season! In fact, at over…
or… How going the extra step combined with a little humility makes all the difference in the world. Today I had a crapload, yes - really a CRAPload, of lumber delivered for a deck we are having built. I chose a local company, Warren County Lumber…
I’m speaking about my 7 year-old daughter, Regan. I don’t write about my family too often in anything more than passing, but I’m afraid this is the first of way too many stories about the girl. There are plenty of others that have not been fit to…
Last week I picked up a copy of Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day by Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin. I have a slight interest in SEO, however I try not to get drawn into it too much because it can really eat up your time and I prefer…
An interesting sidenote to yesterday’s post and image of my RSS list of “things to read”: notice the “Tellus” listing. This is our Basecamp feed - so I know about anything that gets posted to any of our projects at any time - without having to…
As a follow up to my comments about the Performancing extension for Firefox that Dave Burke quoted today in the Community Server Daily News I put together a little Flash video to demonstrate how to setup the extension to post to a Community…
In my last post I described adding some unit tests to one of our core libraries that three projects currently being developed are using and finding a bug in the code. Well of course I fixed the bug, but now what? Now each of the teams working on the…
I’m in the middle of developing a proof of concept project for a client that involves me working fairly closely with 3 third-parties along with the client. The communication and waiting game can sometimes be a PITA. Currently I’m waiting on any one…
Jonathan Coulton’s ” Code Monkey ” is freakin’ awesome (via Matt Hawley ). Check out the video on Tra5hTa1k , too - it’s just as cool. I hope they do come up with a t-shirt (check out the poll), I like this version .
