14 Mar 2008

Administrative Debris

“I hold that simplicity is the most important attribute of design,” I say. To which Tufte would reply, “No, you don’t.”

tomayko.com   13:13

08 Jan 2007

What Mongrel Isn't (Or, Write Your Own Damn Web Server)

“All you have to do is change the internal processing, add 200 more methods to the HTTP parser, serve Bittorrent over Ethernet, and have it save Korean orphans while eating a Mango in the back seat of an El Camino driven by twenty midget clowns.”

mongrel.rubyforge.org   09:08

03 Jan 2007

infoworld.com   16:27

08 Dec 2006

KISS (or why MS CS students have a bad time in interviews ...)

“Yet for some strange reason, the MScCS students seem to value fancy algorithms over working algorithms.”

iosn.net   00:42

13 Mar 2006

discuss.joelonsoftware.com   08:04

28 Jun 2005

Generics Considered Harmful

Ouch! It would have been so much cooler if Java would have just dropped static typing completely.. :)

weblogs.java.net   23:28

12 Apr 2005

Radical Simplification

Everything I ever wanted to say about the current state of software development in ~50 slides. Thanks, Sam.

intertwingly.net   08:00

08 Mar 2005

Abstractions vs Patterns

Sam Ruby trying to put a definition to the word “simple”. Seriously, it’s not as easy to define as you think.

intertwingly.net   02:12