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Facebook Was My Idea

By TechKnow | October 20, 2010

Facebook wasn’t my idea necessarily, I’m just borrowing Microsoft’s Windows 7 ad campaign to make the point that most of Facebook’s features are not original to Facebook. And as such, most features in Facebook are borrowed, lifted, cut and pasted, inspired, and based on features from other sites. Flash-based games, image sharing, status updates, location-based [...]

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Mushroom Life Cycle

By TechKnow | September 4, 2010

I’m not too big into all this social media networking virality stuff, but I been known to occasionally use The Twitter. Here are some snippets from conversations that I’ve had on The Twitter. If you like to say hi, reply the reply button at juixe and techknow. V-Day Victory!!! @techknow: I like the day after [...]

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Retweet August 2010

By TechKnow | August 9, 2010

From time to time I blast tweets on software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else I’m working through. 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 Programming is more about [...]

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Retweet May 2010

By TechKnow | July 5, 2010

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 Tests? We ain’t [...]

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PHP Creator is a Terrible Coder

By TechKnow | April 23, 2010

Rasmus Lerdorf, the Danish creator of the PHP programming language, recently tweeted the following bit of hubris. For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another – Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :) That sounds like something that DHH would say, who also [...]

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Zombie Code

By TechKnow | March 14, 2010

In this conversation tweet snippet I rant about dead code when someone noted that in a Murphy’s Law sort of way, you don’t need dead code until you delete it. Thank goodness for version control systems. Zombie Code @techknow: It is a dead end maintaining dead code, unused, and unreachable code. @archiloque There is something [...]

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