August 2011
1 post
“To be wise is not to know particular facts but to know without excessive...”
– John Meacham
May 2011
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March 2011
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Programming is not a craft « DanNorth.net →
Dan likes comment #143. I do too.
November 2010
2 posts
“My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding on...”
– Maria Montessori - From Childhood to Adolescence
September 2010
1 post
Live band in my neighbor’s back yard. Gotta...
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
0 posts
“Team vision and discipline over individuals and interactions (or processes and...”
– Kent Beck
From the Startup Lessons Learned Conference
Lessons Learned: Thank you
May 2010
2 posts
Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing →
February 2010
2 posts
“Writing respectable code is REALLY EFFING HARD.”
– Pain. Or, Why Learning to Code is like Learning Chinese. — Save Me From B-School
Uncle Bob Martin on Scrum's Inherent Shortcomings →
January 2010
1 post
Ten Rules for Web Startups →
December 2009
3 posts
“If Agile is the teachings of Jesus, Scrum is every abuse ever perpetrated in his...”
– The Best and the Worst Tech of the Decade - O’Reilly Radar
Programmers Anonymous →
Are you obsessed with getting your next “fix of problem solving”? Is this addiction hurting your family and friends. Call us now at 555-SUS-TAIN. Our programming addiction counselors are standing by, ready to help you get back to a sustainable pace.
November 2009
2 posts
Our Greatest Fear
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of god.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing...
October 2009
7 posts
Are you an expert or an advanced beginner? →
RFPs Will Kill Us All →
How I built my Minimum Viable Product →
The Y Combinator Startup School 2009 Summary →
What Startups Are Really Like →
WatchItay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors
Love Kleiber’s expressions.
Which is most like you? Which do you aspire to be like?
September 2009
6 posts
“We know more now than we ever did about what good is, and we need more people...”
– Ward Cunningham visits New Relic
Founder Of Fit Fuel On What You Can Learn From His... →
This is a good read for entrepreneurs.
WatchElizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.com
Christopher Alexander and the QWAN →
From People to Programming →
August 2009
5 posts
The Leading Cause of Startup Death →
WatchHow Google creates leaders
Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried... →
Seeking →
My vision of Agile →
Spot on!
July 2009
11 posts
Sustainable Pace at Dogfish Head →
“When anything new is created, be it a website, a service, or a web markup...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule →
Restructuring IT: A Different Look at the... →
“Simplicity doesn’t necessarily mean removing the complex; it means...”
– Presentation Zen: Simplicity, complexity, and the wagasa
The Pyramid Method: A Simple Strategy For Becoming... →
“Software engineering is an idea whose time has come and
gone.”
– Tom DeMarco
If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to... →
Built to Fail: How companies like Google, IDEO,... →
“Nine times out of ten, when you think an application was ridiculously easy to...”
– Benjamin Pollack Every entrepreneur who wants to build “a social networking site like Facebook for [their favorite niche group of users]” with a bootstrap budget of $100k should read this article.
June 2009
6 posts
Construct Your CSS | WYSIWYG Layout Editor,... →
Let's make the web faster →
A nice resource on ways to speed up web sites and apps.
The Interview Question You Should Always Ask →
“Running a start-up is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for...”
– Paul Graham (via Inc.)