Thursday September 25, 2003

Not Atom

The project formerly known as Pie/Echo/Atom is undergoing another Final Name Vote. Jump into the scrum and voice your opinion - even if you don't have one!
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Tuesday September 23, 2003

It's so good to be bad

Within the last 24 hours I've seen two excellent writeups on how/what the author learned from failure. Good stuff, inspiring in fact.
( Sep 23 2003, 09:11:43 AM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

Thursday September 18, 2003

Re: The offshoring debate

Thanks to Rafe for the link to this article.
( Sep 18 2003, 03:13:28 PM ) News Permalink [Trackback]

Thursday September 11, 2003

Coming soon to an office near you

... I hope ... if you live or work in the Twin Cities MN area. That is to say, my current contract will be ending on the 24th and I'm on the hunt for gainful employment. If you are hiring, or know anyone who is, please contact me at lance AT brainopolis.com.
( Sep 11 2003, 08:29:33 AM ) Personal Permalink [Trackback]

Saturday September 06, 2003

Re: It's a boy

Several people (okay, just Dave) have asked to see what my boy looks like. Here you are:

Sorry, that's the best picture we have at the moment. ( Sep 06 2003, 04:11:22 PM ) Personal Permalink Comments [5] [Trackback]

Friday September 05, 2003

On Loathing Singletons

Norman Richards posts on the ever-popular topic the evil that is singletons. I've never understood these discussions (that is, no one has ever presented what I see to be a compelling point), and here Norman grants a HUGE caveat:

Most of the time, it doesn't matter (performance and memory issues aside) if multiple instances of the object existed.

What?! You can't set performance and memory issues aside. Now, I get what Norman is saying: Don't use Singletons for Singleton's sake. It's like any tool, used inappropriately its, uh, inappropriate, maybe even dangerous. A Factory may be more appropriate, but it also may be overdesign; one thing I've liked about XtremeProgramming, YAGNI, applies here.

Or maybe I'm just tired of people pointing out all the stupid things I do. Maybe its the contradictory recommendations found across the web. Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet this morning.
( Sep 05 2003, 07:48:04 AM ) Technology Permalink Comments [7] [Trackback]

Wednesday September 03, 2003

Circle Blog

Cameron posts on Anthony blogging about Cedric's response to Joe's column. And now I will blog about Cameron, by pointing to my comment at Cedric's:

"Roller (has) a fundamental design flaw that prevents them from scaling" - that was true. In the not-yet-released version this has been addressed. Not to say there aren't more lurking, though.

Every time someone has pointed at something wrong with Roller, we've said "yup, you may be right". We looked at it some more and said "yup, you were right". And then we did our level best to fix it. I'm sorry FreeRoller's performance has been so disappointing. The chief underlying cause has been addressed, and Roller 0.9.8 performs much better (under artificial load conditions anyway).

We continue working to make Roller faster, and to make Roller better. Some people see Roller as a product, me, I see it as a hobby. Everybody wants to be better at their hobby.
( Sep 03 2003, 08:10:00 PM ) Roller Permalink [Trackback]

Forgotten Blogiversary

Thanks to Niel Eyde for reminding me, I'd forgotten my anniversary as well. Maybe not forgotten, just had more pressing concerns (I have thought about posting this post before - just not when I was near a computer). In any case, blogging and Roller saved my sanity one year and 13 days ago.
( Sep 03 2003, 08:29:26 AM ) Personal Permalink Comments [1] [Trackback] [Link]

For further reading on today's posts:

Blogging Roller : Lance : We continue working to make Roller faster, and to make Roller better. Some people see Roller as a product, me, I see it as a hobby. Everybody wants to be better at their hobby.