The latest of episode of Devcasting is posted (finally): http://devcasting.com/index.php/2008/05/16/devcasting-11-rob-windsor-on-many-things/
When you leave school and enter the world of professional software development, it turns out there’s a lot you don’t know. How successful you can be professionally depends largely on how well you can learn a lot of those things, especially the "less techie" aspects of professional software development. This post is being live blogged from [...]
…because you are not registered for DevTeach Toronto. OK, maybe not in peril. Then again… what are you doing to enhance your skill set? Who are you sharing ideas with? Who or what is challenging the constructs, patterns, and assumptions you rely on everyday? What is breaking your team out of your own echo chamber? Sales statistics say [...]
Here’s a video of Canadian MVP and Regional Director Barry Gervin giving his Canadian hockey jersey to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: http://www.objectsharp.com/devlounge/videos/playvideo.aspx?movie=ef789e34-f309-48ab-961e-9397ced8f59e The best part is when Steve rubs Barry’s head and says "Nice haircut." That’s my head in the bottom-right corner from 0:10 to 0:20.
"The experiment found that out of 576 people questioned this year, 21% were quite happy to reveal their passwords in exchange for candy." The problem with that quote (and the story it comes from) is it characterizes 120 people as complete buffoons with less self-restraint than a 3-year old. The byline for the story states that [...]
Yesterday I launched Internet Dictator, a for-fun site that tells you what to do and then you come back to tell your stories about your "compliance" with the Dictator’s decree. The Dictator makes decrees on Mondays and Thursdays around 10am Eastern / 7am Pacific (+/- a couple hours). Hope you enjoy! Please come join up and [...]
Well, January 15 has come and gone. The domain citizenville.com is still up for grabs. Last chance to throw your hat in the ring. Leave a comment here telling me what you would use it for. I’ll transfer the domain over to the person with my favourite idea.
Steve Jobs’ 2008 Macworld keynote compressed into 60 seconds courtesy of Mahalo Daily:
Seth Godin has a good post on things you can learn from music business: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.html He makes some great points, but two in particular really resonate with my thinking about technology startups: 1. Past performance is no guarantee of future success Every single industry changes and, eventually, fades. Just because you made money doing something a certain way yesterday, [...]
The VB team has released some compelling performance numbers for Visual Basic 2008. A few dramatic ones: VB 2005 (ms) VB 2008 (ms) Build a large multi-project solution (explicit build operation) 1,618,605 57,543 Responsiveness after opening a project 255,551 38,769 Responsiveness after adding a member to a class 327 36 Invoke Intellisense to see a list of types (first time) 1,192 530 Lots more data and some links at the [...]