Interesting Links from my feeds - 2009-05-16

• To be (free) or not to be (free) - [In reference to the Ruby community] "In the age of git, anyone can fork anything - and the truth is that the real leaders are the people who got us on git, not the people who speak at conferences."
• The Variable in Work Life Balance
• Miniapp: Hacker Newspaper
• Marketing And Leaders
• Ten Things I Have Learned - "After all, what is required in our field, more than anything else, is the continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success. So professionalism as a lifetime aspiration is a limited goal."

Interesting Links from my feeds - 2009-04-29

• Invert Conway's Law
• Transparency is Bunk
• circos - visualizing the genome, among other things
• Ignite Show: Jonathan Kahan on Samurai Swords as Cutting Edge Technology
• What If We Were a World of Doers?
• The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
• Post-It inventor watching Sticky Note Experiments video by Eepybird
• Narrow-minded Data Visualization
• Some Notes on Distributed Key Stores
• Gakudai Cabinet (Tokyo Cabinet): super hyper ultra database manager

Interesting Links from my feeds - 2009-04-09

• Iran’s Nuclear Future
• The Eight Levels of Programmers
• An Interview with Anders Hejlsberg: The Future of Computer Science
• Masterminds of Programming
• PDFMiner
• Why Perforce is more scalable than Git
• Understanding Git Conceptually
• git ready

Intersting Links from Hacker News - 2008-02-07

• Fall of the MS empire
• Add "pwn" before youtube in the url of any youtube video to download it
• The Economy According To Mint
• Memcached Tech Talk with Mark Zuckerberg
• Git - Intro to Rebase
• Augmented Reality - FLARToolKit Demo
• I am not saying that I am a genius but I fit almost all of this. I only disagree with the part about relationships. I am very happy and have not lost interest in mine. ;)
• Ceiling Height Can Affect How A Person Thinks, Feels And Acts
• CouchDB and Me

Intersting Links from Hacker News - 2008-01-28

• The power of small teams
• Apparently MochiKit has build in support for deferreds which I have only seen in the Twisted Python framework which is pretty sweet.
• Maatkit makes MySQL easier and safer to manage. This might suck or be super cool but it seemed interesting.
• Principal-agent problem
• Being more than programmers. (this yielded the link above)
• Consistency and availability in Amazon’s Dynamo
• Exchange vs Open Source
• Why Software Engineering Sucks
• Hack && Ship
• Teen goalie designs pads to trick shots
• It would be cool to have this for buffalo
• Crazy dashboard of now
• Why bad taste rules in business endeavors, and why that's a problem for creative industries.
• Innovate Like Chris Rock
• Hilarious
• Great info about the pilot that landed in the Hudson

Quote me on this:

There is a long and drawn out story that I was going to write about but I will let the reader create a story around my quote.

A technologist is more than the sum of their potential documentation.

Goals for 2009

Dan posted his 2009 goals and I thought that I better get mine out there before it's February.

- Stop failing at blogging regularly.
- Get down to 200lbs from my current 268lbs.
- Read the rest of the O'Reilly perl books by the end of June.
- Learn Python in the second half of the year.
- Learn CouchDB.
- Be able to play 3 songs on my violin which I currently have no idea how to play.
- Read 30 other books. (This is my first books goal so I am starting low.)