Does email make you less productive? Tim Ferris says yes and suggests checking your email a couple times a day.
In 2005, a psychiatrist at King’s College in London administered IQ tests to three groups: the first did nothing but perform the IQ test, the second was distracted by e-mail and ringing phones, and the third [...]
Mongrel being the four-legged variety, not the ruby server.
I heard about the dog food recall last night but it wasn’t until this morning that I checked the list (which is very long) and found that my dog’s wet food was on it. Thankfully once I checked the product codes his food was fine.
I recently started [...]
As depressing as voting ‘irregularities’ are, don’t let it stop you from voting.
If you’re on the fence here are the congressmen who voted for and against Net Neutrality, a law that prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others (the ‘NOES’ are the bad guys). Here are the senators, as it was [...]
How hard is to build a voting machine that dosen’t crash as soon as you turn it on?
Voting Problems Crop Up on Election Day
I guess all the half-decent developers are doing web dev
Other than doctors or scientists I’d say there’s no other industry than web development that requires more continuous education. I probably spend about 25% of my work week either learning something new or looking something up (usually the latter!)
I used to make treks to the bookstore but lately I’ve been buying stuff online, the first [...]
And that’s just one dude…
Danyel Molenaar, a project manager for the Dutch Independent Regulator of Post and Telecommunications, said the man had rented 35 servers for around 14,000 Australian dollars (US$10,493; euro8,256) each per month from a small Internet service provider in the Netherlands to carry out the alleged spam campaign.
So the spammer gets arrested [...]
My web application planning usually includes the outline from the client proposal as a feature list and a series of hand drawn diagrams (with many eraser marks), sometimes the diagrams where converted to adobe illustrator documents if the app was complex enough that the client needed to see the app flow before we begin building. [...]
Google and TextMate come through again.
Found this post on using TextMate for coloring code in blog posts. Works great – except for a couple of tab issues, see post blow the comments should be aligned and the bottom ‘if’ statement is kinda wacky – I swear in my code it’s all indented properly!
Now [...]
My initial exuberance with Django has been tempered a bit by trying to get it to run on a production server. Getting Rails to run was a snap compared to getting Django to run on a Plesk server.
Once I realized I had to install an earlier version of mod-python (3.1.4) and finally got it running [...]