At the Washington Athletic Club I witnessed a young girl point to a painting and say to her mother: “Mom, that’s pretty, but what’s it do?”
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Apr 30
Australia Trip Ends
Yes, I did return from my Australia trip. That was a week ago, but I just haven’t gotten around to blogging about it yet.
It took my body several days to readjust to this crazy time zone Seattle is in after a brutal set of return flights.
Rather than write something coherent, I’ll jot down some [...]
Apr 26
Comment on Oracle has no autoincrement by: Grant
Coming to the party a bit late, but in Postgres you can set the default value of the id column to the nextval of the sequence. A bit more verbose than mysql but the numbering is now part of the table definition and not an external trigger. We use this form for all [...]
Apr 11
Comment on Australia trip begins by: mark
Hey Jeff! I’m so unf’ingbelievably jealous!! You lucky bastard!
Apr 10
Comment on Australia trip begins by: Jeff
Good to know. Any restaurant recommendations in Cairns?
Apr 06
Comment on Australia trip begins by: Rob Schuster
Jolma, so you’re going to Cairns with Derickson? I went there a few years ago with my parents just after I’d been accepted at Med School. Awesome place. Definitely take the opportunity to eat authentic Austrailian cuisine, because there’s a number of great resturants in Cairns that you should go to.
Apr 06
Comment on Australia trip begins by: Mike Pegg
Yeah – try Wayfaring.com:
Here is mine from a recent trip:
http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/show/8529
Apr 06
Australia trip begins
I am off to Australia today with a buddy of mine, David Erickson, for a much needed vacation.
We are spending five days in Sydney followed by five in Cairns (hint: the locals pronounce it “cans”). A rough list of things we hope to see or do:
visit the famous beaches
check out the Great Barrier Reef
explore [...]
Apr 06
Comment on Complexity Kills by: Bogle’s Blog » Creating an aggregate blog feed from a set of feeds
[…] Jeff, for instance, talks about Ruby on Rails and how we’re using it as a complementary platform to our Java + Spring + Hibernate + Oracle platform for situations where speed of development and rapid iteration is essential. Pretty cool. But Jeff also talks about how Complexity Kills and how some projects at Jobster [...]
Apr 05
Complexity Kills
The New York Times ran an interesting article on how complexity slows down development at Microsoft.
An excerpt:
In an internal memo last October, Ray Ozzie, chief technical officer, who joined Microsoft last year, wrote, “Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges [...]