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Aug 6th, 2008
TCO: what hardware are you factoring for?
Aug 4th, 2008
Rounded Corners 211 - Geek or fail
Aug 2nd, 2008
Rounded Corners 210 - Over Caffeinated
Jul 30th, 2008
The Password Heist, starring Terry Childs and Handsome Newsom
Jul 30th, 2008
Pawnd
Jul 29th, 2008
Rounded Corners 209 - Sitting on a server gathering spam.
Jul 27th, 2008
Rounded Corners 208 - U gotta walk with ur chin @ about 45 degree angle
Jul 25th, 2008
The bizarre SF passwords saga
Jul 25th, 2008
Axis and REST/WebArch: never or just not right now?
Jul 24th, 2008
Focus on the user’s mental model
Jul 23rd, 2008
Java does the iPhone dance
Jul 23rd, 2008
Rounded Corners 207 - The only thing that can act like Chuck Norris is Chuck Norris
Jul 23rd, 2008
Two easy rules to live by
Jul 23rd, 2008
Drizzle, smaller database for larger data sets
Jul 22nd, 2008
We’re disappointed in how this thing is testing …
Jul 22nd, 2008
Annoying surveys and slimmer UIs
Jul 21st, 2008
I can has I-lots-of-letters-N?
Jul 17th, 2008
Confirmed: I’m an ignorant mainstream user
Jul 16th, 2008
It’s not closed unless I want it changed
Jul 15th, 2008
Open source LoJack for your laptop
Jul 15th, 2008
The grim PC survival time
Jul 15th, 2008
File under “wasn’t expecting this to happen”
Jul 15th, 2008
Upgrading to WordPress 2.6
Jul 10th, 2008
Thsrs, The Shorter Thesaurus
Jul 10th, 2008
10-70
Jul 8th, 2008
REST in the front, RPC in the back
Jul 6th, 2008
Overhea(r)d
Jul 6th, 2008
Removing unnecessaries
Jul 6th, 2008
Smart spam and new comment policy
Jul 6th, 2008
Random images
Jul 3rd, 2008
Rounded Corners 206 - TGIF (almost)
Jul 1st, 2008
How SOA declared success
Jun 29th, 2008
CSS Sucked my Soul
Jun 28th, 2008
This blog optimized for …
Jun 27th, 2008
“perhaps giving away CDs isn’t the best idea after all”
Jun 27th, 2008
What’s keeping me busy?
Jun 26th, 2008
Hey Microsoft, how you doing over there?
Jun 25th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 205 (A little more affordance, please)
Jun 23rd, 2008
Rounded Corners - 204 (Git Day)
Jun 5th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 203 (Always be shipping)
May 20th, 2008
Finally Divorced Verizon
May 5th, 2008
Unicode dominating the Web?
May 5th, 2008
Distributed Twitter Client in 20 lines of code
Apr 30th, 2008
Git forking for fun and profit
Apr 27th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 202 (SaaS + open disclosure)
Apr 19th, 2008
How many payments in a 4-payment plan?
Apr 16th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 201 (I can has Shawarma?)
Apr 15th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 202 (Ruby roundup)
Apr 14th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 201 (Twinkle, twinkle little twit)
Apr 13th, 2008
Google/Firefox, please go easy on the trigger
Apr 11th, 2008
Git it is
Apr 6th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 200 (Freedom to choose)
Apr 5th, 2008
What’s on your Mac
Mar 27th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 199 (Waste management)
Mar 25th, 2008
Best practices for implementing CPTP 1.0 in HOA deployments
Mar 23rd, 2008
Rounded Corners - 198 (Less is the new black)
Mar 20th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 197 (Not a moment too soon)
Mar 19th, 2008
Early x-mas gift
Mar 18th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 196 (The only key you need is F5)
Mar 15th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 196 (Down for everyone, or just me?)
Mar 12th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 195 (… give way to torn edges)
Mar 11th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 194 (If it helps you feel better …)
Mar 3rd, 2008
Rounded Corners - 193
Feb 28th, 2008
svn checkout, rake setup
Feb 26th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 192 (Socializing)
Feb 26th, 2008
The Original Digg Keyboard
Feb 21st, 2008
Rounded Corners - 191 (Downloaded from the Internet)
Feb 20th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 190 (The other operating system)
Feb 17th, 2008
Gem RDoc on Leopard
Feb 12th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 189 (The finer points)
Feb 5th, 2008
New love, first impressions
Feb 2nd, 2008
And they say fashion goes in cycles
Jan 30th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 188 (Catching up)
Jan 30th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 187 (Breathing new life into …)
Jan 28th, 2008
Ruby In Practice: REST, SOAP, WebSphere MQ and SalesForce
Jan 18th, 2008
REST IDL, substance over style
Jan 18th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 186 (Green on JRuby)
Jan 15th, 2008
Want!
Jan 14th, 2008
ABEND
Jan 13th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 185 (Full of Gems)
Jan 7th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 184 (The Mythical Bridge Engineer)
Jan 4th, 2008
Rounded Corners - 183 (The better COBOL)
Jan 3rd, 2008
Rounded Corners - 182 (Find your cult)
Jan 2nd, 2008
Rounded Corners - 181 (Breakups are hard)
Jan 2nd, 2008
C2EE: How You Stand to Benefit
Dec 30th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 180 (Tea-Pot Controversies, 2007)
Dec 29th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 179 (Stick figures)
Dec 19th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 178 (IDE day)
Dec 18th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 177 (A subset of 7%)
Dec 17th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 176 (Specs and frameworks)
Dec 17th, 2007
Web Architectures and HTTP Mediocrity
Dec 17th, 2007
DeHorrible: RESTifying SimpleDB
Dec 16th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 175 (Trial and error)
Dec 14th, 2007
if_modified, second round
Dec 14th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 174 (SimpleDB overload)
Dec 13th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 173 (Beautiful code)
Dec 13th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 173 (The open-source edition)
Dec 12th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 172 (Interfaces)
Dec 11th, 2007
json_request: handling JSON request in Rails 2.0
Dec 11th, 2007
OK, I’ll bite
Dec 10th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 171 (Sex it up)
Dec 6th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 170 (For certain values of normal)
Nov 30th, 2007
So sorry about that: all comments were moderated, and notifications were off
Nov 30th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 169 (All your ___ belongs to us)
Nov 22nd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 168 (Happy Thanksgiving)
Nov 20th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 167 (All talk, no ads)
Nov 19th, 2007
Atlanta Markers
Nov 16th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 166 (open.rest.map { })
Nov 8th, 2007
Buildr goes Apache, and see you next week at ApacheCon
Nov 8th, 2007
Sartorially Orientated Architects
Nov 2nd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 165 (Cultural)
Oct 29th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 164 (Shopping)
Oct 23rd, 2007
Rails fixies: JSON as input, See Other and [].to_xml
Oct 15th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 163 (Serendipity)
Oct 10th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 162 (foobar)
Oct 9th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 161 (Credits)
Oct 9th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 160 (Resourced)
Oct 8th, 2007
n-Tier Apps and Client-Side Caching
Oct 8th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 159 (As seen on TV)
Oct 5th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 158 (Upside down thinking)
Oct 5th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 157 (The funnies)
Oct 4th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 156 (The next generation)
Oct 3rd, 2007
Not all keys created equal
Oct 3rd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 155 (N>1)
Sep 30th, 2007
WideFinder, Ruby Pic, and Scaling Up, Out and Away
Sep 30th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 154 (Simon says)
Sep 28th, 2007
Pi-cture this: Pi-calculus, Ruby and WideFinder
Sep 26th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 153 (Divide by zero)
Sep 23rd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 152 (Rails heavy)
Sep 21st, 2007
Rounded Corners - 151 (Life is messy)
Sep 20th, 2007
Read Consistency: Dumb Databases, Smart Services
Sep 17th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 150 (OPTIONS)
Sep 15th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 149 (We didn’t think this would be a problem)
Sep 14th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 148 (Magic trick)
Sep 14th, 2007
RESTful Web Services: the book you already decided to read
Sep 13th, 2007
Cool by Association, an illustrated cheatsheet
Sep 12th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 147 (Don’t let your users run wild on the Web)
Sep 12th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 146 (Second derivative)
Sep 12th, 2007
Conflicting Reads and Writes
Sep 11th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 145 (Rainbows and … more of the same)
Sep 10th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 144 (Slight of hand)
Sep 7th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 143 (Kool-Kid-Aid)
Sep 6th, 2007
Office 2.0 conf, how to (not) make a presentation
Sep 6th, 2007
Office 2.0 conf, and why document standards are a blast to the past
Sep 6th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 142 (If you can’t beat them …)
Sep 5th, 2007
if_modified: infinite cache size and optimistic locks
Sep 5th, 2007
restfully_yours: good things happen to those who rest
Sep 5th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 141 (Around and around and around …)
Sep 3rd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 140 (Aging with grace)
Sep 2nd, 2007
CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS
Aug 29th, 2007
be_accepted, be_created, be_forbidden, be_found
Aug 29th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 139 (StainRank)
Aug 27th, 2007
Dis or Dat (Mercurial and OpenID)
Aug 26th, 2007
Dis or Dat (on Java)
Aug 26th, 2007
Performance art on comp.compression
Aug 26th, 2007
To ESB or not to ESB?
Aug 24th, 2007
Vanity licenses and just saying “no”
Aug 23rd, 2007
One eye on the browser, one eye on the console
Aug 23rd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 138 (Snap!)
Aug 23rd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 137 (Old dogs, new tricks)
Aug 21st, 2007
Rounded Corners - 136 (The fluffy edition)
Aug 19th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 135 (Slow down for pedestrians)
Aug 18th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 134 (Sky not, I repeat not, falling down!)
Aug 18th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 133 (Don’t be too clever)
Aug 17th, 2007
One line publishing
Aug 16th, 2007
The Simple Publishing Protocol
Aug 15th, 2007
Why so many company’s can’t get e-mail right
Aug 11th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 132 (Gods and entropy)
Aug 8th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 131 (In no particular order)
Aug 2nd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 130 (Cats & Dogs)
Aug 1st, 2007
Like the world needs another Verizon rant
Jul 31st, 2007
SOA governance according to Dilbert
Jul 30th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 129 (Technochasm)
Jul 25th, 2007
Pick 5: Favorite Firefox extensions I recently picked and can’t live without
Jul 20th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 128 (lolcathost)
Jul 18th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 127 (Quotes away!)
Jul 16th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 126 (Comments and style)
Jul 10th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 125 (the funnies)
Jul 6th, 2007
Build Testing For The Rest Of Us
Jul 3rd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 124 (Five kinds of wrong)
Jul 2nd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 123
Jun 28th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 122
Jun 25th, 2007
Rounded Corners - Is Back (121)
Jun 21st, 2007
There might be a Dell in my future
Jun 9th, 2007
Learning from failure
Jun 6th, 2007
Rake hack: I’m not sleeping, just caught in a circular dependency
Jun 5th, 2007
Flat Arrays and Symbol Options
Jun 3rd, 2007
If REST is functional, why not its description?
Jun 2nd, 2007
Feed picks
May 25th, 2007
REST this, REST that
May 18th, 2007
If Java influenced WS-*, can REST influence Java?
May 17th, 2007
Off to Portland
May 15th, 2007
Virtual XP on Linux
May 14th, 2007
Rails Envy
May 13th, 2007
The inevitable migration of framework coders
May 10th, 2007
WADL Poll
May 10th, 2007
And now for something totally different
May 8th, 2007
JavaFX: Pass. Maybe in 2.0.
May 7th, 2007
Patience, Buildr docs coming up
May 3rd, 2007
Buildr, or when Ruby is faster than Java
Apr 27th, 2007
The distance between blogging and Twitter
Apr 18th, 2007
Introducing Buildr, or how we cured our Maven blues
Apr 11th, 2007
How will Web Services work with a Web of Services?
Apr 10th, 2007
Can you catch a silver bullet?
Apr 6th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 120
Apr 6th, 2007
Does the world need another markup definition language?
Apr 2nd, 2007
Tumbling along, bytesized.labnotes.org
Mar 30th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 119
Mar 28th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 118
Mar 27th, 2007
Inverse Learning Curve
Mar 27th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 117
Mar 26th, 2007
WTF?!?!
Mar 24th, 2007
Faith-based IT and Snake-Oil Architecture
Mar 24th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 116
Mar 23rd, 2007
Techie sikret handshake and Earthlink woes
Mar 22nd, 2007
Cajun-style crabcakes
Mar 22nd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 115
Mar 16th, 2007
warn_with_color
Mar 16th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 114
Mar 15th, 2007
The Counter: build your own burger
Mar 15th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 113
Mar 15th, 2007
JSON Assessment Questionnaire: Are you ready to make the transition?
Mar 12th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 112
Mar 10th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 111
Mar 9th, 2007
SQL DSL
Mar 8th, 2007
The Dutch boy and embracing constraints
Mar 7th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 110
Mar 6th, 2007
Motorcycle service
Mar 3rd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 109
Mar 2nd, 2007
Learning from FizzBuzz: the developer pysche and code reuse
Feb 28th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 108
Feb 28th, 2007
Dear Valued Customer …
Feb 27th, 2007
WS-Configuration
Feb 27th, 2007
Validating XML documents with Ruby code
Feb 21st, 2007
Rounded Corners - 107
Feb 20th, 2007
Verizon: We take usability seriously
Feb 19th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 106
Feb 14th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 105
Feb 11th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 104
Feb 10th, 2007
How well do you know Java?
Feb 9th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 103
Feb 8th, 2007
Timing is everything
Feb 7th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 102
Feb 6th, 2007
AT&T, can you please stop stalking me
Feb 6th, 2007
method_missing: best saved for last
Feb 1st, 2007
Friendly XML, trusted XML and parity bits
Jan 31st, 2007
Rounded Corners - 101
Jan 30th, 2007
I don’t do partial feeds …
Jan 30th, 2007
RSpec better than sliced bread with olive tapenade
Jan 30th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 100
Jan 30th, 2007
SFRuby.org
Jan 29th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 99
Jan 26th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 98
Jan 24th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 97
Jan 24th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 96
Jan 18th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 95
Jan 13th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 94
Jan 12th, 2007
Solid State Disk Changes The Game
Jan 11th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 93
Jan 9th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 92
Jan 8th, 2007
Six tips for building better Web apps with Rails
Jan 6th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 91
Jan 4th, 2007
Rounded Corners - 90
Jan 3rd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 89
Jan 3rd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 88
Jan 2nd, 2007
Rounded Corners - 87
Jan 1st, 2007
2PC or not 2PC
Dec 31st, 2006
Rounded Corners - 86
Dec 30th, 2006
More on the Java/Ruby cross-over
Dec 30th, 2006
Ruby: A Better Build for Java
Dec 29th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 85
Dec 28th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 84
Dec 27th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 83
Dec 26th, 2006
In defense of verbosity
Dec 26th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 82
Dec 26th, 2006
One is easier than the other
Dec 24th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 81
Dec 23rd, 2006
New Year ReSolutions
Dec 22nd, 2006
Rounded Corners - 80
Dec 21st, 2006
Rounded Corners - 79
Dec 19th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 78
Dec 18th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 77
Dec 17th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 76
Dec 15th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 75
Dec 13th, 2006
Blogstitution-Free Zone
Dec 12th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 74
Dec 12th, 2006
Go easy on the type checking
Dec 12th, 2006
Trivia Tag
Dec 12th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 73
Dec 11th, 2006
A Tale of Three Boxes
Dec 10th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 72
Dec 8th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 71
Dec 7th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 70
Dec 2nd, 2006
Six ways to be more productive
Dec 1st, 2006
Rounded Corners - 69
Dec 1st, 2006
Proof reading is more important than composition
Dec 1st, 2006
Rounded Corners - 68
Nov 29th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 67
Nov 27th, 2006
HTTP as a Three Tier Protocol
Nov 23rd, 2006
Rounded Corners - 66
Nov 22nd, 2006
Rounded Corners - 65
Nov 18th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 64
Nov 16th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 63
Nov 15th, 2006
Commitment, Trust and Discipline
Nov 14th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 62
Nov 14th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 61
Nov 13th, 2006
Starting With An Idea …
Nov 13th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 60
Nov 12th, 2006
Espresso
Nov 9th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 59
Nov 8th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 58
Nov 7th, 2006
The Wave Function of SOAP and REST
Nov 6th, 2006
Yes it’s REST, yes it’s a service
Nov 6th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 57
Nov 5th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 56
Nov 3rd, 2006
Rounded Corners - 55
Nov 3rd, 2006
The joys of upgrading your Linux box
Oct 29th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 54
Oct 27th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 53
Oct 25th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 52
Oct 25th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 51
Oct 18th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 50
Oct 18th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 49
Oct 17th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 48
Oct 17th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 47
Oct 16th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 46
Oct 15th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 45
Oct 13th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 44
Oct 10th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 43
Oct 9th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 42
Oct 7th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 41
Oct 5th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 40
Oct 4th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 39
Oct 4th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 38
Oct 4th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 37
Oct 3rd, 2006
If only iTunes was as good as NetFlix
Oct 3rd, 2006
Rounded Corners - 36
Oct 2nd, 2006
Google Reader: switching over from BlogLines
Oct 2nd, 2006
Rounded Corners - 35
Oct 1st, 2006
Rounded Corners - 34
Sep 28th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 33
Sep 27th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 32
Sep 26th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 31
Sep 25th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 30
Sep 21st, 2006
Rounded Corners - 29
Sep 20th, 2006
Rounded Corners - 28
Sep 20th, 2006