Juixe Techknow

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

• Worst than coder’s block is coder’s shiny tech infinite loop.
• I got 99 problems and a bug ain’t one.
• I’m a rockstar ninja guru mofo byte code copy editor.
• If you could Myers-Briggs test your code what type would your code be and what type of developer would that make you?
• Are you test driven or bug driven development?
• Spiderman had his spidey sense and I have my buggy sense and it is tingling.
• Software bugs can byte my shiny metal ass.
• Code is a continuum.
• Mo data, mo problems.
• Let there be APIs.
• “Hello, World” is a programmer’s first program. Blog engine is a web developer’s first web app. Consultant’s first product, time management application.
• Duh, #debugging.
• Code is never complete.
• Code less, debug less.
• I’m a bandwagon programmer!
• This is not the code you are looking for.
• I break for bugs.
• My code runs more than you.

Team Dynamics

• Passion is not a fruit, it’s a seed.
• Pitch your passion.
• Self help gurus first help themselves.
• If you are waiting for tomorrow you will always be waiting.
• In the evening be exhausted, in the morning exhilarated.
• Great ideas don’t join country clubs.
• Inside a large risk is a large reward, you just need to know how to unwrap it and then monetize it.
• Meetings begets meetings
• It’s not how the ball is pitched to you, it’s how you hit the ball, duh #winning.
• Replace “what if” with “when and how.”
• The way you think of a problem affects the way you think of the solution.
• Everybody lives in there own bubble, expand yours.

Product Placement

• I’m confused as to which photo service we are all supposed to use this month, flickr, picasa, twitpic, instangram, picplz, plixi, color, etc
• Color app seems like Bump for pictures.
• Why is the director of the FBI emailing my AOL email account from a io domain?
• 3G forecast: partly spotty with chances of AT&T fail.
• Out of all of Apple’s products, Jobs’ best revenue generating product must be the iPhone earbuds. At $30, it has $.50 of material.
• I’ve lost count, would Google Circles be Google’s third or fourth social networking attempt?
• Outlook should have a Save As option to save as a Word document.
• What Google giveth Google taketh away with one change in their algo.
• Ikea has made a killing by selling designer cardboard.

Quotes

• Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That’s how much that paper is worth. – Linus Torvalds
• Seeing companies promote their Facebook fan page in advertisements reminds me of when companies promoted their AOL keyword. – @bencasnocha
• Every software package expands until it can send email. – Zawinski’s Law
• One great rock show can change the world. – School of Rock

Questions

• How many tweets does it take change a light bulb and start trending?
• Do you live in the moment or in a hurry to get to the next moment?
• Is #SXSW the equivalent to #Woodstock but for social media experts and tech hipsters?
• Forget Scientology, what Hollywood religion is Charlie Sheen practicing where he is a warlock and lives with goddesses?
• If William of Occam worked at Gillette how many blades would Occam’s razor have?
• Is Chris Brown the next Dennis Rodman?

The Valley

• There is a “lifestyle business” bubble.
• To VCs, startup founders are like dogs to be sorted by pedigree.
• Is it a bubble if you can’t afford to invest in a seed round?
• Everybody is scared of a little bubble.
• Forget about building a better mouse trap, think about building a better people trap.
• Some party like a rock star, I party like a VC.

Technologist

• Single sign-on is something that should be native in the browser.
• Love thy neighbors, like thy Facebook friends, and retweet they twitter followers.
• People like liking.
• Tell me what smart phone you have and I’ll tell you everything about you, especially of you have it unlocked.
• Terms of Service do not void your constitutional rights.
• Love thy neighbors, like thy Facebook friends, and retweet they twitter followers.
• If there ever is a a zombie attack just remember that the Googleplex has the biggest brains, Hollywood and Washington not so big.

Tweeple

• Mr. Zuckerberg, tear down this walled garden.
• Mr. Jobs, fix my iPhone.
• I think Aaron Sorkin should write a treatment for a movie based on Stuxnet.
• Jeff Bezos to serialize his brain and store it Amazon’s cloud and allow developers to access it via an API.

Japanese Earthquake

• My heart goes out to the Fukushima 50 and all the search and rescue workers.
• I have the same feeling, level of disbelief and sense of magnitude, about Japan now as I did about New York after September 11.
• Earthquake + Tsunami + Nuclear + Meltdown = (Me Praying for the People of Japan)^8.7
• Wow, the Japan quake at 8.9 is 700x stronger than the Haiti earthquake.
• There is no match to the “shock and awe” that Mother Nature can produce in matter of minutes.
• I <3 Japan
• Stay strong Japan! If there is any country that can recover from two nuclear bombs, multiple Godzilla attacks, and a 8.9 quake Japan can.