Monthly Archives: June 2007

Going to crank down the categories soon

Probably down to a very select few: there just aren’t enough posts here to warrant the specificity of some of the categories. I’m thinking something like the following should be sufficient Admin Programming Functional Languages OO Languages Politics Self-Indulgent Navel Gazing [Listening to: Jesus Got His Hooks In Me - The Holmes Brothers - Speaking [...]

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Someone at Atlassian Deserves a Raise

Okay, so you’re a commercial software company. You have some good products, and they’re highly extensible by the users, but you’re constantly being chased by a competing open source projects: every time you come up with a good idea, the open source community gangs up on you and produces another bolt-on project to do the [...]

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ROWE?

Does any of the readership know anything about the “Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)” development methodology? I just bumped into it for the first time. I’ve heard people talk about how cool Best Buy‘s development environment is, but never really got any details. Now I’ve bumped into ROWE as something being used at a start-up, but [...]

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“Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science”

Ted Neward shares a history lesson on Vietnam and insightful analysis on why ORM is hard, brought to my intention by Reginald Braithwaite@Raganwald.

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If We Can’t Legislate Spirituality, We Can at Least Analyze It to Death

After a long time, I am finally ramping up towards seminary again. I am slotted to come under care of the Presbytery Committee on Preparation for Ministry (CPM) in August. Either in July or August, I should come under care of Bryn Mawr‘s session. This basically means that I will be starting the process towards [...]

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