January 2010
3 posts
hiring badass programmers... or, at least......
I’d love to say I know a good programmer when I see him (or her). That would be a lie. The difficulty in predicting the performance of programmers lies in the fact that programming, as human endeavors go, well… it’s a bit odd. We’d like to say (as a group that wants to be taken seriously) that “programming is engineering.” Well, in 2009, even our own beloved...
RubyInline and ImageScience
Quick shout-outs for excellent Ruby tools: ImageScience and RubyInline. We wrestled with RMagic on and off all week and finally punted, moving over to ImageScience with a sigh of relief. We needed a small enhancement to ImageScience which was easily done using RubyInline. Voila. I like it when things are this easy.
Want to write better? Stop using the verb 'to...
Some years ago while studying the occult, I stumbled across Robert Anton Wilson’s Quantum Psychology, which blew my mind all to pieces. I still pull out my dog-eared copy every year or two to reinforce my mind-blowness, and it never disappoints. One major benefit I’ve realized from it, while prosaic, may be of some use to you.
Take this simple advice to start writing better: Stop...