{"id":1381,"date":"2011-05-23T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2011-05-22T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T20:48:04","slug":"retweet-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2011\/05\/23\/retweet-april-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweet April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/techknow\">techknow<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/juixe\">juixe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Software Development<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thread.sleep(28800000);<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t need a PHD in PHP to be a great Web Developer.<\/li>\n<li>Not Another Expression Language.  There should be one expression language to rule them all.<\/li>\n<li>I am not afraid of rolling up my sleeves and debugger.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a thin line between feature and bug.<\/li>\n<li>Code is a blunt instrument.<\/li>\n<li>We ain&#8217;t afraid of no code block.<\/li>\n<li>Web designers are modern day alchemists.<\/li>\n<li>If developers are a dime a dozen, then product idea people are a silver dollar a dozen.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t read romance novels or non-fiction before going to bed, I read programming language technical specifications.<\/li>\n<li>New Name For Rock Band: Death By SQL Injection<\/li>\n<li>Let there be code.<\/li>\n<li>Just code it.<\/li>\n<li>Code the future.<\/li>\n<li>Crack the code.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be a code donkey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Team Dynamics<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you a value creator, subtractor, divider, or multiplier?<\/li>\n<li>AWS failure is the perfect storm to the cloud.<\/li>\n<li>Stress is excess, we don&#8217;t need it in our lives.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t buy the scrappy mentality.<\/li>\n<li>Scale your thought process.<\/li>\n<li>The right time is right now.<\/li>\n<li>Strive to do what you do well better.<\/li>\n<li>People don&#8217;t scale and multi-task as well as computers do.<\/li>\n<li>Give a man a thought, and he will think for a day.  Teach a man to think, and he will think for himself.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t want someone to reinvent the wheel, you need someone that makes it turn!<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has great ideas, what is needed is great execution of great ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Product Placement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is Automattic, the company behind WordPress, working on an ad network?  With millions of WP blogs out there, maybe it should.<\/li>\n<li>Jiffy Lube peeps are great at up selling you on add-on services.<\/li>\n<li>Forget HAL 3000, I&#8217;m afraid of my iPhone 3000.  &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry Dave, but I&#8217;m afraid you can&#8217;t do that and I&#8217;ve notified the authorities.<\/li>\n<li>Google announcing that better ads are coming to GMail is like the power company announcing that a better billing system is coming.<\/li>\n<li>I feel like I get more snail mail spam than email spam.  I wonder if GMail can also filter out my snail mail spam.<\/li>\n<li>If you add up all the zero-day holes in Adobe products, you get a lot of days spent patching and upgrading buggy software.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The Valley<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welcome to the Blubble 2.0.<\/li>\n<li>The trouble with the blubble.<\/li>\n<li>I think we are in a #bubble when a website for listing free crap is valued at multiple millions of dollars.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t pivot while you pitch.<\/li>\n<li>How do you monetize the bubble?<\/li>\n<li>Ah, Silicon Valley, the land of vanity startups, founders with ADD, fan boi VCs, me-to products, one trick apps, companies on pivot mode&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Bubbles are like snow flakes, there are no two alike, so we can conclude that this tech bubble I&#8217;d different from previous ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>General Technologist<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If Arthur Miller were alive today he would have written a sequel to Death of a Salesman called Death of a Social Media Marketing Ninja.<\/li>\n<li>You know your service or product is successful if GOOG wants to buy you for a billion dollars, FB copies you, and if MSFT doesn&#8217;t get it.<\/li>\n<li>Any lawmaker who proposes any bill related to technology should be able to correctly setup a wifi router, Facebook privacy settings, &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>My iPhone knows too much about me.  I think I want a dumb phone, instead of a scheming evil genius phone that is tracking my every move.<\/li>\n<li>If TinyUrl was a utilities company it would force upgrade everybody to use smart grid meter and charge us extra to use green friendly links.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter management seem to play musical chairs with titles.  It seems like everyone at the company has had a turn at being CEO.<\/li>\n<li>There are different degrees of open in open platforms, from marketing buzzword open to data portability open.<\/li>\n<li>What I learned by reading Rework by 37signals: Emulate drug dealing celebrity chefs and up sale the by-products of what you do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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