March 2009
Announcing Hookah, the Web Hook Event Dispatcher « Web Hooks
The goal of Hookah is to take most of the work out of implementing web hooks. Ideally, Hookah will allow you to have all the features you need for successfully deploying web hooks and only need to add a few lines of code to your app. In fact, one line for each event! On top of that, the interface for Hookah is HTTP, so it’s not that different than directly invoking web hooks and works easily from any language.
webhooks are the last cool things.
February 2009
10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
by 2 othersI realized that instead of complaining, I could help by pointing to some papers which are easily available online and which (to me at least) point to some of the most interesting ideas about software. To me, these are classic papers which contain deep
things you oughta knowabout code – the material you work with.
added to the toread list
Rethink – "How do you motivate?"
I personally enjoy and benefit a lot from pair programming. It’s not something I get to do all of the time, but a solid pairing session with a good developer gets me results. I love sharing tricks, and discussing code before it’s written. However, there might be more to it than that.
Hampton and I started to speculate that we work best if someone is just there, keeping you on your toes. Someone to chastise you if you check Facebook, even if they don’t know the first thing about programming. We joked about hiring people to just sit there and watch us code. I laughed!
Well, I’m not laughing any more. I tried it, and it worked.
January 2009
Don't hire a programmer if they don't code for fun
Obviously fun coding projects aren't the only indicator of a rock star, but they're a good way to filter out programmers that just do it for a paycheck.
don't forget that those kind of employee are demanding, they know how to have fun at working (if they do that in their spare time). Give them good food.
November 2008
Code Intensity: SVN Externals are Evil; Use Piston or Braid
by 1 otherthe evil is SVN itself not handling changing of externals (i.e. to/from an external) in basic operations like updates and merges, which may cause a lot of manual work on your end, and break automated builds or similar.
wondering about massively usage of it.
May 2008
Elegant Code » Why Agile Doesn’t Really Work
Build your business practices to embrace change just like your Agile development practices do. Embrace continuous integration of the enterprise, not just your source code.
yes, embrace it
January 2008
Review Board
by 1 otherCode reviews are fun again! ...almost.
more gentleman than Nat's blameall.py