Archive for July, 2008

My favorite bar hobby…

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Some people fold napkins into charming oragami. I bullshit. It’s fun, and great practice my future in academia.

Schemaless

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Damien Katz:
Static typing in OO languages isn’t the solution to software complexity, rather it’s an enabler of it. Static typing is like giving a drunk a bunch of breath mints and saying “Don’t drive drunk. But if you must, use these breath mints in case you get pulled over.”
I’m still trying to make sense of […]

Koppel on new journalism…

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Ted Koppel’s China work for Discovery is going to redefine television journalism. It’s just on another level…a very refreshing level.

CouchDB is just what I’ve been dreaming about…

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

I’ve been fantasizing about a flexible object store to act as the back-end for web applications. The best approach I could muster was trying to come up with a flexible, pluggable SQLAlchemy model as a start. That’s a lot harder than I anticipated, and I’ve been stumped for a few months now.
No mas. Having played […]

The next 10 million users won’t wear a beard…

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Seriously.

Underneath this flabby exterior lies an enormous lack of character…