December 2009
4 posts
Metaphor, Storytelling, and Agreement in Software...
How many times have you heard something like this? You know the drill:
Stakeholder: “We need to fix sort order. Let’s make sure that results we can’t show an image for are deprioritized.”
Developer: “Can do.”
Time passes. Software is written. Then:
Developer: “I’m finished. The results without photos are at the end of the list.”
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Geek Bucket List
Ok, maybe Bucket List is a bit of a stretch.
But if I had oodles of free time I’d do the following geeky things:
Lisp. Really learn it this time. No. Really.
Smalltalk too.
Build and install an active solar system and a solar hot water heater on my house.
Do an iPhone app. Yay, Objective-C!
What’s on your list?
Hiring Internet Talent and the Future of...
As CTO, I seem to be getting the recurring question, “Can you (hotelicopter) find the tech-savvy talent you need in Charlottesville?” It’s a valid question. Long gone are the days of Kesmai, EA, Mr. Goodbucks, and the beloved Value America. These days, we have influx of spooks, a smattering of biotech companies, and in the IT/Internet world… a whole buncha...
Kicking and Screaming into Programming in the...
I’m not sure if it’s a fine line or a broad one between programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large, but at hotelicopter, we’ve definitely stepped over that line. Along the way, in a very short amount of time (6 months, give or take), we’ve begun moving to the cloud (aws), adopted distributed source code control (git), automated deployment (capistrano),...