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Thoughts from KalamazooX Conference #kalx

Posted in Business, Code, Implementation, News & Notes, tagged , , , , , on Monday, Apr 27, 2009 | Comments Off

I attended KalamazooX over the weekend, which was a great combination of design, business, and technical presentations.  As someone who has transitioned from a programmer into marketing & strategy consulting, it was nice to see content that wasn’t just staring at code.  I believe some of the slides are up online, but here are some [...]

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Heroku Out of Beta – Fast, Easy & Cheap Ruby Hosting

Posted in Business, Code, Hosting, News & Notes, tagged , , , , , , on Friday, Apr 24, 2009 | Comments Off

Heroku, who we previously covered here and here, offers quick and easy Ruby hosting.  Today their service came out of beta, with a commercial, paid version of it’s service.  Web developers can focus on development, leaving deployment, hosting and scaling of the application to Heroku.  Meant to provide affordable services which easily scale, packages start [...]

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Scrum, Agile, Extreme – when programmers get ahold of a thesaurus.

Posted in Code, News & Notes, tagged , , , , , , on Friday, Feb 27, 2009 | Comments Off

Computer people just love to name things.   The server guy who names all his machines after Star Wars characters competes with the network guy who names all his routers and switches after Star Trek characters to see who has the more obscure references.  Usually the Desktop guy wins with his collection of Windows PCs named [...]

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What were they expecting?

Posted in Code, News & Notes, tagged , , , , , , on Thursday, Feb 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Succeed at managing your customers expectation and you can never fail.  Fail to manage your customers expectations and you can never succeed. ~ me
This is one of my all time favorite universal lessons I have gleaned from business.  There isn’t really any part of my life that involves other people which doesn’t benefit from the [...]

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JSON and the Argonauts

Posted in Code, News & Notes, Opinion, tagged , , , , , , , , , on Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The Greeks sure were fond of super-hero team titles.  There was Jason, commander of the Argo and her crew of the best of the best, pitted against irresistible forces beyond moral man’s endurance.   What does this have to do with JSON, the JavaScript Object Notation standard used by the web 2.0’s best of the best [...]

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For ‘Bleeding Edge’ prepare to pay in blood

Posted in Code, News & Notes, tagged , , , , , , on Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you are in software development, take a good hard look at the code you are writing right now.  If the string of Roman characters resemble Java or .Net or C/C++ then I have some wonderfully awful predictions about the next ten years of your life; That language is your scarlet letter and will follow/define [...]

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CodeMash Jam Session

Posted in Code, tagged , , on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 | Comments Off

CodeMash Jam Session on Vimeo « SazbeanBefore there was Rock Band, people spent time playing actual instruments.  This pickup band were amazing musicians independently, but riffing off each other they were just outstanding.

more about “CodeMash Jam Session on Vimeo“, posted with vodpod

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CodeMash 2009 – Friday Morning Sessions

Posted in Code, tagged , , , , on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 | Comments Off

The guy who wrote Rails was clearly brilliant.  He just didn’t have alot of real world experience ~ Joe O’Brien, talking about the limitations of testing within Rails
So Joe O’Brien, from EdgeCase, is one of those really exciting presenters to watch because it is a certainty that both you and him are both going to [...]

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CodeMash – Thursday Afternoon sessions

Posted in Code, tagged , , , on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Remember fear is the mind killer, so just get over it and learn Functional Programming ~ Kevin Smith talking about Erlang
The two afternoon sessions, Erlang the Basics and Functional Concepts for OOP Developers, were one – two punches to the gut, in a good way.  If you tried to read a Functional Programming tutorial, maybe [...]

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CodeMash 2009 – Thursday Morning Sessions

Posted in Code, tagged , , , , on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Whould you want your surgeon to have a dull knife? ~ Nathaniel Schutta defending dynamic languages like Ruby as ’sharper tools’
Travel issues prevented me from seeing the very early sessions of CodeMash, which was a shame because I was very interested in Eric Meyer’s talk on how JavaScript Will Save Us All!  (I added the [...]

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CodeMash 2009

Posted in Code, tagged on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 | Comments Off

So I will be attending the 2009 CodeMash conference in wintery Sandusky Ohio (no more wintery than Ann Arbor Michigan I suppose).  If any of our readers will be in attendance, send me a ping via email (aaron@sazbean.com) or twitter (aaronworsham)
I will be on the clock for another company, so I can’t update the blog [...]

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Best of 2008 – To lead programmers, you must be humble

Posted in Code on Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 | Comments Off

I’m tired of talking about how great I am.  What about you, what do you think of me?
There may have been a point in time when someone understood all that there was to understand about computers.  Early on there may have been one person who could stand above his fellow scientists and claim to be [...]

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