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Sep 8 2009

Retweet August 2009

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back.

Software Development

sudo gem install mixico; wishing sudo gem install vacation.
Version control tools need a better way to diff source history than just diffing two versions of a file…
If all bug defects are set to high priority, how are you to know, which one are really really really important ones?
I have 20 bugs marked a high priority, but some are higher than others. In addition to the having a priority and severity on defects we need color code too, ‘high pink’ is lower than ‘high crimson.’
Just remember, a two line fix can cost you a two hundred thousand dollar deal! Any code change to a production system must be tested.
LOL, getting a NullPointerException in a method called initNullValues.
Give me open source or give me piracy!
Let your users help drive the development of your product, not the accountants.

Team Leadership

Sometimes it seems that team meetings are anti-team building!
You can still compare apples to oranges, but it is harder to compare apples to some ill-perceived subjective metric.
Sometimes people tell you whatever you want to hear, because you are not listening to whatever they are trying to say.
People are crazy, and you getting upset about other people’s craziness, will make you crazy.
Not losing is not winning.
Take your competitors and make them your competitive advantage.

Product Placement

I don’t think Apple sponsored #iPhoneDevCamp 3, which is interesting because the iPhone dev camps generate a lot of business for Apple.
One feature implemented in many MS products is to restrict other features unless you upgrade from the home to the super business edition.
Why does Edible Arrangements require an answer to the following question ‘How did you hear about us?’ before I can place an order?
Finally figured out how to cancel @UsWeekly, just typical of a old media company their web site/design/usability makes absolutely no sense!
Facebook adds so many obstacles before you can follow someone… It’s like they don’t really want you to have friends.
Updating and adding new plugins on my WordPress bloggie! Plugins are like bling for blog!
You might have heard of ttyl, maybe of ttyn, but what about ttyat&t? ttyat&t: Talk To You if I get cell reception from AT&T.

Business Planning

When you have lemons don’t just make lemonade, make lemon cake too!
Having your mommy pay for your business plan is not a business plan.
Everyone has a million dollar idea, I have a billion dollar idea, care to invest?
Cash in your million dollar idea!
If content is king, then context is like emperor.

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Sep 7 2009

The Rubyist: August 2009 Edition

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of August 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog.

Ruby

Rails

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Aug 22 2009

Songs in Code

Programming related hashtags don’t make the top trend on Twitter. But last Friday night, when most people are out except geeks, the hashtag #songsincode made it to the top trends on Twitter. As of today, here some of my favorite songs in code.

Songs in Code

@juixe: if(self.getLikes().contains(BIG_BUTTS) && !self.canLie()) {other.getBrothers().deny(false); you.getFace().add(ROUND_THING); you.getSprung()} #songsincode
@techknow: Rhythm instanceof Dancer == true #songsincode
@techknow: 2.times do we_will end; rock_you; face :has => ‘mud’; disgrace you, big #songsincode
@anteaya: if “its” === 1999 then party; end #songsincode
@cessor: for(int i = 99; i >= 0; i–) { Bottle b = _bottlesOfBeerOnTheWall[i]; b.Pass(); } #songsincode #CSharp
@seeflanigan: Love.is_a?(Battlefield) => true #songsincode
@stewdio_org: return “that’s” + ( name.indexOf([ “girl”, “stacey”, “her”, “jane” ]) > 0 ? “” : ” not” ) + ” my name” #songsincode #tingtings
@malvim: try { me.go(“rehab”); } catch { return “No, no, no!”; } #songsincode
@bricriu: if (self.go() { return new Trouble() } else if (self.stay()) { return new Trouble().intValue() * 2} #songsincode
@projektdotnet: int main(void){get_your($body_beat); let_your(blood_flow); return 0;} #songsincode
@NescioPhone: try { margaritaville.Resolve(“Lost”); } catch (Exception woman) { Trace(this.Fault); } #songsincode
@brotzeitbrettl: for(int i=0; i==0; i=1) { we.celebrate(); oh_yeah.allright(); dancing.stop = false; } #songsincode
@chiihime: foreach (night in myDreams) { me.see(you); me.feel(you); }; #songsincode
@joestump: if (IN_YOUR_ARMS && TONIGHT) { die(); } #songsincode
@brentgarner: if($theEnd){$loveYouTake = $loveYouMake;} // #songsincode #beatles
@stewartyu: while(money++) { problems++; } #songsincode
@dustinfineout: if (time.equals(‘hammer’)) { this.touchable = false; } #songsincode
@kevinwo: hold($me, $close++, $tiny_dancer); #songsincode
@llemirtrauts: for(var oclock = 1; oclock <= 12; oclock++){rock();} #songsincode
@abachman: you.dance if you.want_to?; #songsincode
@dbrady: i == sky << eye; i.looking!(@you); i.authorized?(your.mind, :read) == true #songsincode
@zarkon: if (you.loves(somebody)) { them.set(free); } #songsincode
@llemirtrauts: @paynen [money, show, getReady, goGoGo].forEach(function(value, key) {key + for(value);});!stepOnMy(blueSuedeShoes); #songsincode
@jonrimmer: x = ‘Umbrella’; you.Permissions[‘StandUnder’] += self.GetPossession(x + x.Right(4) + x.Right(4) + ‘eh’ * 3) #songsincode
@jverdi: while(true) {if(!this.touch()) {echo “can’t touch this”;}}#songsincode
@tiemez: while(false){ self.giveYouUp(); self.letYouDown(); self.runAround(); self.desertYou(); } #songsincode
@mikemangi: function iWant(){ $rocknroll=’allnite’; $party=’everyday’; keepon($rockn); } #songsincode
@librarythingtim: if(!woman) { cry = false; } #songsincode
@motherwell: if(you.think(sexy) == true && you.want(myBody) == true ) { you.tellMe(so) } #songsincode
@TjoosDude: me.see(you.watch(me.watch(you))); #songsincode
@cameronhunter: (function( you ){ return you.getLove().matches(/bad medicine/) })() #songsincode
@tower10: @paynen function () { walk(this).way(); talk(this).way(); } #songsincode
@eviltabbycat: public interface egyptian {public void walk();} #songsincode
@frenchs: int *chicks = (int*)malloc(sizeof (int)); int *money = null; free(chicks); #songsincode #rusty_c
@joestump: if (HUMPTY_DANCE) { define(‘TRANCE’, true); do_the_hump(); } #songsincode
@paynen: (girls == boys).like(girls.do(boys.like(girls.do(girls.like(boys)))) #songsincode
@beenewilliamr: dc -e'[dsm1laxsr]sj[2/ljxlcxq]st[3*1+ljx lcx]sy[d1=qd2%0=td2%0!=y]sc[100P]sw[0P] se[q]sq[d1700!>qdlm%d0=w d0!=esr1+lax]sa28lcx’ #songsincode
@skatterbean: if not self.check(): self.wreck() #songsincode (thanks do @dreid for the bug fix)
@frenchs: if(!roxanne) { self::turnOnLight(self::RED); } #songsincode
@eegiffin: class HotelCalifornia { void checkOut () { canLeave=false; } } #songsincode
@ald: try { Britney.Sing(); } catch (Exception ex) { throw new Exception(“Oops”); } #songsincode
@herlifeinpixels: while you.find(me, indaclub): me.sipping(bub); if isinstance(you, sexylilthug): you.need = me.got; #songsincode
@dhinojosa: assertTrue(heat.isOn()) #songsincode #glennfrye
@llemirtrauts: [].push(“ah”).push(“good”).push(“real good”);#songsincode
@ara_p: roof.set(“fire”, true); #songsincode
@proxymoron: if(wantTo) { we = dance(); } friends = !dance(); if(friends != dance()) { we.remove(friends); } #songsincode

For some unexplainable reason, I found a lot of developers tweeted/coded the song Dude (Looks Like a Lady) by Aerosmith.

Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

@davglass: var Dude = new Lady();#songsincode
@jrconlin: @davglass Shouldn’t that be: (Lady) new Dude; ? #songsincode
@Slow3000: dude.setLook(Looks.LADY); #songsincode
@krigsi: LooksLike(“Dude”,”Lady”) #songsincode
@ptone: import dude as lady #songsincode
@clindh: looks == (lady)dude; #songsincode

I found these three variants of Jay-Z’s song 99 Problems interesting.

99 Problems

@brotzeitbrettl: echo count($this->problems) == 99; foreach($this->problems as $p) { echo ($p instanceof Bitch) == false); } #songsincode
@peterc: Okay, just one more: # problems.size == 99 && !problems.include?(“bitch”) #songsincode
@tome: en(problems) == 99 and “bitch” not in problems

Some songs, in code, by Michael Jackson.

RIP MJ

@techknow: dianna.setDirty(true) #songsincode
@pud: If (BillieJean.is != my.lover) { BillieJean.justa = ‘girl’; i = 1; } #songsincode
@RobertFischer: !my.isLover(billyJean) && billyJean.claims(my.theOne) && !my.isSon(theKid) #songsincode
@krigsi: if($Annie = ‘OK’) { SmoothCriminal(Hit) } #songsincode

4 comments | tags: code, humor, lol, Programming, songsincode, trend, twitter | posted in Programming, TechKnow

Aug 19 2009

Technology and Politics

Politicians say the darndest things, especially when it comes to technology. Here are some technology related quotes made famous my our elected officials and civil servants.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
– Al Gore/Vice President of the United States

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got…an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
– Ted Stevens/Alaska Senator

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
– Ted Stevens/Alaska Senator

Internet != Big Truck

As broadband deployment and more importantly if you look at the megabyte per second how much information can we get though the pipeline is going to be so important as new and new software technologies are introduced what you are going to see is huge change from how applications are architected with skip logic to video and much more human ways of interacting with these applications rather than binary or COBOL ways to interacting with those applications.
– Vivek Kundra/United States Chief Information Officer

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Aug 17 2009

The 1Kb CSS Grid

I’ve used a variety of layout techniques and technologies, from HTML tables to home grown CSS. I recently started using The 1Kb CSS Grid to layout my web content in a page. With The 1Kb CSS Grid you can specially design your grid CSS by selecting the number of columns, the column width and the gutter width between columns. The width of your grid will be calculated for you but just in case you care, the total width of the grid will be based on the following equation: (Number of Columns x Column Width) + (Number of Columns – 1) * Gutter With

1Kb CSS Grid

For my requirements I found when using The 1Kb CSS Grid that I tend to get more flexibility when I use 12 columns at 60 pixel wide each column and a gutter of only 10 pixels. The total grid width for this layout is 840px. If you peek in the generated grid.css you will find, with our configuration, 12 grid classes, such as grid_1, grid_2, etc. Think of grid_1 as a single column, and grid_2 as a one cell that spans two columns. You can have any number of rows, but each row you only have 12 columns. For example, you can have one grid_12, or three grid_4, or 12 grid_1 per row. Lets see the HTML for a few rows and how they would end up looking.

<div class="row">
  <div class="column grid_12">12</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
  <div class="column grid_6">6</div>
  <div class="column grid_6">6</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
  <div class="column grid_1">1</div>
  <div class="column grid_2">2</div>
  <div class="column grid_4">4</div>
  <div class="column grid_5">5</div>
</div>

Basic Grid Layout

Notice that each row can have any number of grids, as long as the grid count adds up to 12. You can also nest rows

<div class="row">
  <div class="column grid_8">8
    <div class="row">
      <div class="column grid_4">4</div>
      <div class="column grid_4">4</div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="column grid_4">4</div>
</div>

As a tip, just remember that the grid count in the nested row must add up to the parent/containing column grid count. Below is a dramatization of what a CSS grid row with a nested row would look like.

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Aug 16 2009

Retweet July 2009