“A list is only as strong as its weakest link.” — Donald Knuth
SoftwareBloat TV – Episode 2
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Viddler video.Reviewing Stuart Halloway’s Programming Clojure, introducing the delicious social bookmarking engine, sharing a cool slideshow presentation on The Presentation Secrets Of Steve Jobs, demonstrating Node.js and MacRabbit’s CSSEdit.
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“Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.” — Russell Simmons
My first real language was Pascal. My first few programs were written in Basic, but even then it felt like a toy language. Many of the techniques that I learned from Basic applied directly to Pascal though — control structures like loops, conditional statements, operator precedence and so on. Just like mathematics is built upon fundamental axioms like the Well-ordering principle, programming is built upon these fundamental techniques. They’re constant, they don’t vary from language to language. (more…)
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. — Peter Drucker
Yammer is a web app that lets you “connect and share with the people in your company or organization”. It’s basically Twitter for your intranet.
We use it to fire off quick messages about the progress we’ve made and the challenges we’re facing on our projects. Using the Yammer API we’ve been able to tie Git into the system so that notifications are sent out after each commit which contain the commiter, the commit message, and a hash tag associating the Yammer message with the git repository name. (more…)