Much like cookie monster, I am reviewing new career options myself. Seriously, I’m sooo much more than just a tech guy (And I prefer the term “geekery enthusiast”, ahem… )
Stay tuned!
Oh, and please help get cookie monster on SNL!
Or Keynote, for that matter.
Great “things to avoid” presentation. And great rule of thumb: A killer one hour presentation takes 30 hours of prep. Phew.
via Lifehacker .
Great list of animated films for us, ahem… adults from the always hilarious and entertaining defective yeti (whose blog you should totally be reading if you aren’t already).
Was actually surprised at the number of these I hadn’t seen (and some I’d never heard of). Adding to the list of things to watch now.
Oh, and just a personal one from me. Wallace and Gromit The Curse of the Wererabbit totally needs to be in there.
The always enlightening Umair Haque has a great HBR article on focusing on worst practices . Some good ideas. I notice how companies like Zappos (and even Google) avoid this by internalizing some of these ideas intuitively.
Really like it. Can think of a number of places I’ve worked at that would do well to take the advice on a strategy day or day out (and myself for that matter in reflection and repose.).
You know, one of the things I love best about the Rails community is its sense of fun and how damn helpful everyone is in helping you learn in novel (and yet, really useful) ways. Cause, seriously? Programming shouldn’t be as hard as your first year comp sci class made it out to be.
Enter Rails for Zombies . Check it out, sign up and get learnin'.
Brrraaaaiiinnnnnzzzz…
Well, I got rid of my TV a few year ago and don’t miss it at all (though bittorrent a few choice shows here and there), but kinda loved this history of TV in the catchphrases of the popular shows of the times. It’s a bit uncanny actually. Thankfully, the full lists of the quotes and their shows are below the video (thankfully, because for me at least, I’d only seen “How I Met Your Mother” after Futurama in the list. Scary. Guess I gotta up my show watching.)
Really love this tough-love talk on metrics for your startup and how you should implement and kill features based on what they do to the bottom line. Awesome, if ugly (and annoying it does a bit of sales pitch, but hey).
via Ringo .
Fact is, managing code is difficult, even with git and github .
The fact git makes branching and merging so cheap and easy creates a new problem. Go away and work on something else for a while, leave a project and come back or even get distracted with prioritizing another feature or an urgent production hotfix and suddenly, you’ve got a problem. Add in a team environment and you’d better have something agreed.
I love getting packages in the mail too so I totally get xkcd 576 (hint, hint.. ok, even more I love sending random packages to friends while I’m abroad).
A kiwi developer did a little work to make it happen and has been having it auto-tweet all the things it sends. Kinda cool. Wondering what is going to the be most interesting/coolest/weirdest/nastiest things he’s going to get.
