Architects don’t just diagram, they participate. Ryan Baker answers the question “What is a software architect?â€: “The reason an architect should do all of this is not because his code is essential to the engineering of the project. It is because his participation is essential to his understanding of it, which is essential to his ability to guide the project.†This spot-on quote is from Ryan’s comment, so once you’re done reading for post, check the comments for more clarification.
Language wars, III. When it comes to programming languages, the world of Blogs is an infinite fountain of knowledge, opinions and pointless debates. I’m always learning new things about meta-programming, this-driven design or that-driven design, and how we’re just doomed to reinvent Smalltalk and Lisp, not necessarily in that order. At times it’s also entertaining. But when all said and done and the feature comparison matrix ran its course, it comes down to one very simple decision to make: which language will make me feel smarter?
iTune, youSell. The problem with commercials is that it’s very hard to make them stand out, you need to give people time to digest of they drawn in the noise. So you separate them 15 minutes apart, and use a filler, maybe throw in a few sequences of a TV show, or some news bulletin. We call it entertainment, but really it’s just a billable event. Billable events are not just for the TV, take iTunes 7.0 for example. As they say … until something better comes along.
Whereto Gates-Grove law? w.a.g asks: “If you troll the web, do email, and pay a few bills, do you really need an expensive desktop or laptop? If that’s all you do, isn’t most of your hardware’s potential sitting their unused, but paid for?â€
Incompetent people don’t know they are. Duh. Although, the research methodology smells a bit incompetent: asking people to rate themselves relative to average and then comparing it to statistical average?