Archive for September, 2007
One Nice Big Gestalt Blogs RSS Feed
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
This evening I thought I’d try an experiment. I wanted an easier way to subscribe to all the blog feeds of my fellow co-workers at Gestalt. I think I found a decent way to do that. I tagged all the feeds I know of today using del.icio.us (cool service, still hate the name) with “gestalt-llc-blogs” and then created a simple Yahoo! Pipes application based on the del.icio.us RSS feed. This means that as more people at Gestalt start blogs (and they will), they’ll have a way to easily add their RSS feed to one nice big RSS feed of all the Gestalt blogs. At least I think that should work. We’ll see if my 30 minutes worth of inspiration makes sense in the morning.
Oh yeah, the one nice big Gestalt blogs RSS feed can be found here.
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Google Finds Search
Monday, September 17, 2007
It always seemed odd to me that Google Reader never had search functionality. I mean, what is the one feature you’d expect a Google app to have built-in from the start? Apparently not search. I’m a little slow, haven’t been in Google Reader much lately and completely missed the new search bar at the top of the Google Reader app. Very cool. Now I can actually find nuggets of pure gold in old posts that I tag and star in Reader.
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Quote from EC: “Because of science progress.”
Monday, September 17, 2007
My six year old son’s response a couple days ago to my question of, “How do you know aliens aren’t real?”
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Fewer Moving Parts Means Fewer Broken Pieces
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Fewer moving parts means fewer broken pieces
When every other start requires a brand new thesis
-David Bazan, Fewer Broken Pieces
Why does this David Bazan song keep running through my head as I work with software development teams on a daily basis? Smaller teams normally translate to fewer problems. And when you have a new mix of team members, you pretty much start over from scratch in terms of chemistry, trust and all that other touchy feely stuff. A new team charter forms, not unlike a new thesis.
Maybe Paul Graham’s essay on Holding a Program in One’s Head plays into this line of thinking. Graham points out that the lone coder can accomplish some amazing results, especially when compared to a large team of software developers. Then again, what about the “wisdom of crowds”
Clearly, I’m confused and tired right now. Anyway, I’m going to catch David Bazan in concert tomorrow night. I haven’t been to a concert in probably two years. I’m hoping this concert restores my faith in the concert going crowds these days. I stopped going to concerts mainly because far too many people seemed to be more interested in chatting (screaming, really) with their friends than taking in the music. It makes for a wonderful experience – not.
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Quote from EC: “I’m not a little kid in Mexico!”
Thursday, September 6, 2007
My, then five year old, son’s response to his Grandfather’s offer of a cup of coffee. To begin to understand this one, you’d have to have seen the Will Ferrell movie Kicking and Screaming
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