Posts tagged with Rant
Routine
Hm, it's been a while since I last wrote; I tried to keep the post-per-week schedule intact, but work has a way of killing the literary spark at the end of long days, themselves a part of a…
Coffeescript: Joyful and Unreadable
I had an interesting chat with a visiting engineer today about Javascript app frameworks, specifically Backbone.js. Backbone is probably the most popular one out there right now, on account of having excellent documentation and being minimalistic and non-intrusive. They…
More than just Programmers
I came this article yesterday. In brief, it talks about a group of veteran programmers - 20+ years of experience, these guys - who lament about today's programmers lacking the skill to work at low levels of software…
Acquaintance with Rails
It's been a lengthy two months since I decided to sit down and try to learn Ruby on Rails. Having already been through PHP and Python (both Pylons and Django), Rails is one of those technologies that you…
The Fresh Smell of Google+
By now, Google+ has gone through: * 8-9 months' worth of internal dogfooding[1] * a media blitzkrieg * an interactive demo * one round of external beta testing * one round of external beta testers inviting as many friends as possible The general…
The Incessant Whine of Web Designers
I can't be the first person to think that web designers - often, freelancers as a group - spend more time and energy telling everybody else that that their work is important. In particular, it seems like once…
