Posts in category 'Technology'

• The perils of rounding; or, Careful with that Axe, Eugene (April 9, 2021)
• Stanford's Machine Learning Course (October 28, 2020)
• Does the Apple Watch 6 oximeter matter? (September 21, 2020)
• Taking and Passing the CISSP examination (January 18, 2020)
• Transitioning to being a Programmer (February 18, 2018)
• Fournier, The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Book Review) (September 2, 2017)
• Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Book Review) (August 25, 2017)
• Turco, The Conversational Firm (Book Review) (July 1, 2017)
• Niven and Lamorte, Objectives and Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement with OKRs (Book Review) (May 20, 2017)
• Christina Wodtke, Radical Focus (Book Review) (April 8, 2017)
• Moving from WordPress to Middleman, Part II: Multiple categories per post (February 5, 2015)
• Moving from WordPress to Middleman, Part I: ActiveRecord modeling of WordPress (January 30, 2015)
• Jeff Gothelf, Lean UX (Book Review) (April 24, 2013)
• Boxen workflow - notes to self (February 21, 2013)
• OS/X, Puppet (and boxen) and installing new software versions from DMGs (VirtualBox for me) (February 19, 2013)
• Technology resolutions for the New Year (December 30, 2011)
• ZOMG! Windows! (December 17, 2011)
• ASUS AiGuru SV1T Skype VideoPhone - Worst consumer electronics product of 2011 (and 2010 and maybe 2009) (December 14, 2011)
• Comcast drives me nuts (September 28, 2011)
• Another reason to dislike the Ruby 1.9 Hash syntax (July 9, 2011)
• Russ Olsen's Eloquent Ruby, and the teaching of Ruby (March 5, 2011)
• Rapid software development with my 8-year-old (February 28, 2011)
• Page numbers for the Kindle - Thank god (February 13, 2011)
• Application delivery on mobile devices: App Store/Native vs. Browser/HTML5 (February 3, 2011)
• Forced password changes (December 29, 2010)
• LinkedIn Groups: Low-quality discussions (December 1, 2010)
• 3rd-party logins: Use Twitter, not Facebook (December 1, 2010)
• Wonder when Heroku will get off Amazon's EC2? (November 14, 2010)
• Wesabe vs. Mint: Reasons why Wesabe failed (October 4, 2010)
• Wow, Microsoft has problems! (September 23, 2010)
• You can now disconnect from the Internet (September 23, 2010)
• Windows Live (September 23, 2010)
• Great Amazon.com customer service experience (September 20, 2010)
• Comcast customer service - no sense of irony (September 5, 2010)
• New Kindle DX annoyances (July 2, 2010)
• Running the gem doc server at startup on OS/X (June 18, 2010)
• Bruegger's free wifi terms of service -- Usenet? (June 15, 2010)
• ATT still hasn't figured out what business it's in (June 9, 2010)
• Ruby inherited callback runs before subclass is loaded (September 22, 2009)
• Good example of antiquity of some Core Ruby classes (September 22, 2009)
• Nice post at Geezeo regarding BeatThat! (March 3, 2009)
• About the Kindle (March 2, 2009)
• DNS failover: Short TTL vs Multiple A Records? (December 1, 2008)
• Know your compact fluorescent bulbs (September 9, 2008)
• Managing Two Network Providers: Using a PePlink Balance 30 (August 15, 2008)
• Teaching Ruby and Ruby on Rails again at Harvard (August 7, 2008)
• Reviews of BeatThat.com (August 7, 2008)
• Indispensible Mac App: iCDc (May 24, 2008)
• Capistrano logging (May 15, 2008)
• And another thing about the new Apple Wireless Keyboard (May 6, 2008)
• The MacBook Air: After three weeks (May 3, 2008)
• Amazon EC2 Elastic IP addresses: Watch out (April 5, 2008)
• Fascinating article on Cybersyn in the New York Times (March 28, 2008)
• ISO 9000 (March 25, 2008)
• Norman's Law (March 6, 2008)
• Developer Abuse - Microsoft SQL Server Version (March 5, 2008)
• Nice review of new Flanagan/Matz Ruby book from Boston Ruby Group's Brian DeLacey (March 3, 2008)
• No Vision, All Drive (Book Review) (February 25, 2008)
• Knowing what your competitors are up to (February 21, 2008)
• OttoBib: Great idea, too bad it doesn't work right (February 21, 2008)
• Ruby: JRuby vs. Groovy (February 20, 2008)
• Obama on sort algorithms (February 15, 2008)
• How to measure code quality (February 12, 2008)
• How to ring a phone on a 3Com NBX (February 11, 2008)
• Children are the ultimate startup (February 3, 2008)
• Wide is the new drop shadow (February 2, 2008)
• Does this mean I don't have to pay taxes? (January 25, 2008)
• Fifteen Years of Progress (January 24, 2008)
• How did Ranters come to say these naughty words? (January 16, 2008)
• Most annoying prophylactic dialog of all time? (January 15, 2008)
• Thank you, MySQL (January 7, 2008)
• Managing passwords with PasswordMaker: Know your settings! (December 31, 2007)
• Management and the bugs database (December 7, 2007)
• The March of Progress (December 5, 2007)
• And how did I vote? (December 3, 2007)
• Vote for Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge Competitors (December 3, 2007)
• Software that just isn't right (December 1, 2007)
• Facebook Beacon as a reminder of what you've already given up (November 30, 2007)
• Holiday gift recommendations (November 25, 2007)
• Pro Active Record (Book Review) (November 9, 2007)
• Listening to John Resig at JQueryCamp (October 27, 2007)
• One way to get a twitter ticker for lecture . . . (October 24, 2007)
• Google Feedfetcher: Please get http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/3474891.rss more frequently! (October 23, 2007)
• Product idea; or maybe it already exists? (October 23, 2007)
• Naughty words in license key? (October 18, 2007)
• My Nerd Score (October 12, 2007)
• RightScale and Amazon's EC2, S3, etc. (October 4, 2007)
• Amazon Web Services - EC2 - Wow! (September 28, 2007)
• WordPress: How to enable comments on *pages* (September 23, 2007)
• Obnoxious popup strategy of mlb.com (September 23, 2007)
• Rails vs. PHP (September 23, 2007)
• Apple's shift to music-by-subscription? (September 5, 2007)
• Tweaks to scaffolding for adding "child" rows (August 30, 2007)
• Google Docs: Generate XHTML! (August 29, 2007)
• Ruby HTML parser with event callbacks? (August 29, 2007)
• Distributed media - through vendors or standards? (August 22, 2007)
• Pragmatic Programmer Dave Thomas writes history of Michigan State (August 17, 2007)
• Yet (yet) another Boston Ruby on Rails shop (August 17, 2007)
• Sorting Google search results by date? (August 17, 2007)
• The Google (August 17, 2007)
• Another interesting Boston area web-based product (August 15, 2007)
• Yet Another Great Ruby on Rails job (August 15, 2007)
• Brontes is hiring Ruby on Rails developers (et al.) (August 15, 2007)
• But John, what does 7fff mean? (August 10, 2007)
• Use ssh tunnel to provide access across a firewall (August 10, 2007)
• Facebook Java client is Java 1.5? Blech (August 10, 2007)