A More Poetic Version
Lin Yutang, a Chinese writer, was more poetic in guarding his TODO list. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in...
View ArticleNon-interactive RVM Install
I’m setting up scripts to start up a Web app on an Amazon Web Services instance in the cloud. I’m starting with the latest Ubuntu image. Ideally, I could just launch an instance with the proper user...
View ArticleThe Presidential Tech Teams
The Obama and Romney campaigns’ technology teams are interesting reflections of the candidates themselves. I’m not sure they were the difference between winning and losing, but I am sure they...
View ArticleNon-Interactive RVM Installation, Improved
In my previous post on Non-Interactive RVM Installation, I described a problem (RVM in a script prompting for input) and a solution (redirect output to the null device). It wasn’t elegant, but it...
View ArticleI Thought It Was Just Me
Lately I have been moving away from programming, a career I’ve been doing for over forty years. It’s been my only career, so it’s not easy. In fact, it’s bewildering. Yesterday I wrote an little rant...
View ArticleA Rant on 42
My IEEE card came in the mail today—Senior Member, valued member for 42 years. Huh. That’s a while. Maybe it’s not time to join a startup. The song playing in the coffee house is older than most...
View ArticleTODO Projects
GOALS ToDo Full and Life Balance include projects as a way to group tasks. A benefit of this approach is disabling work projects while on vacation. Even on vacation there are things I need to be...
View Article10 Minute Test Plan
A very good article on writing test plans in the IEEE Software magazine, 10-Minute Test Plan. I can get behind this, it is a size and scale appropriate to the software I write, non-life critical,...
View ArticleZAML – Side Project Launch
Today I’m publicly launching a side project, ZAML. It’s like a bowl of fortune cookies with a daily featured fortune. If you don’t like today’s fortune, take another. And another. There are...
View ArticleToo Clever by Half
My first cut at ZAML tried to minimize Amazon S3 (cloud storage) costs. There was just one full HTML page with a fragment stored for each quote. Javascript fetched the quote and inserted it into the...
View ArticleComputer Glasses—Desktop or Laptop?
I have a pair of prescription glasses just for the computer. But I notice I don’t wear them anymore, preferring a pair of progressive bifocals. So I tried to figure out why. Well, the computer glasses...
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