App with an Action-Movie UX

I have this very mundane need: an application to fill the SD card that goes into a digital picture frame. You know, don't show photos that were on it last time, show all the photos that are new since last time, show higher-rated photos more than lower-rated ones, etc.

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Review of American Gods

American GodsAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A good page-turner, but ironically for a book that is about the fate of gods, the stakes felt extremely low. Gaiman very quickly establishes a porous boundary between life and death for mortals and then, later, establishes the same …

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"Moneycode" not "Developernomics": My Hunch as to the Distribution of Software Excellence

Part 1: Forbes is wrong about "Developernomics"

Part 2: Why 10x Ticks Me Off

If this subject’s of interest to you, you might enjoy (or despise) the column on the subject I’ve been writing for SD Times for the past decade.

In order to understand my position on …

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The Passing of Pioneers

The passing of pioneers - SD Times: Software Development News.

SD Times has published some brief memories of some of those the industry lost this year.

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Why 10x Ticks Me Off

This is a follow-up to my Friday rant Forbes is wrong about "Developernomics"

First: If the subject's of interest to you, you might enjoy (or despise) the column on the subject I've been writing for SD Times for the past decade. (I can't help but wonder if I wrote in …

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Forbes is wrong about "Developernomics"

Forbes is wrong when it says:

The thing is, software talent is extraordinarily nonlinear...It’s still a kind of black magic...the 10x phenomenon, and the industry’s reliance on it, doesn’t seem to get engineered or managed away. Because the 10xers keep inventing new tools for themselves …

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An Agile Thought Experiment

A team, unaccustomed to but enthusiastic about moving towards agile methodologies, begins an important project. The project has many facets and a number of strong developers, so it seems natural for the developers to concentrate on a single aspect: Adam is associated with the Widget feature, Barbara focuses on the …

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Best 100% Kona Coffees: 2011 Holualoa Coffee Stroll

Not counting Geek Acres, the best 100% Kona coffees were available for tasting during the annual Coffee Stroll.

Tina and I both agreed on the top 3:

  1. Mr. Bean: Complex, bright, great mouthfeel, clean finish -- everything you could want in a coffee.
  2. Sugai: Super mellow and round with a clean …
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OOPSLA Day 2: Explicit Use-Case Representation in Programming Languages

One of the emerging themes at this conference is the need to move “examples” (and their older siblings, scenarios and use-cases) “into the code,” so that examples/stories/scenarios/use-cases, which are tremendously meaningful to the subject-matter experts, are actually traceable directly into the code, which is tremendously meaningful to …

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