Thu 28 February, 2008

Seems the Ubuntu Arizona Team is planning a Phoenix conference for September 2008.
Welcome to the Arizona LoCo Team Open Source Conference planning page. The idea of this conference is to educate and promote open source in the state of Arizona. Please visit this link to make comments or suggest ideas for this event.
See also this
We are planning an Open Source Conference to take place in Phoenix and tentatively planned for September of 2008. Please visit the wiki page we’ve set up for this to look over initial planning ideas. Then make comments or submit ideas on this forum page.
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Now you can dress agile while you code agile!
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“ I don’t answer those humiliating questions. But whichever one it is, I look good in ‘em! ”
Barack Obama in response to ‘boxers or briefs?’
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“ Most people don’t know what they want unless they see it in context. ”
Dan Ariely
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add to furlTue 26 February, 2008

After two months of hassle, finally my OLPC got though German customs.

Sentia was the goddess who oversaw children’s mental development. It is also said it was the goddess who gave awareness to the young child.
Tweaks I did and will do are, as usual, on vuxu.
It’s a really nice thing, but it wouldn’t hurt if it was quicker and had more RAM.
NP: DJ Acucrack—Return of the Optimizer
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ZOMG! Ruby has a feature that can be misused!
It’s like the mother in the film A Christmas Story, warning Ralphie about the Red Ryder B.B. gun.
“You’ll shoot your eye out!”
Open classes is a feature.
Get over it.
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As much as I would absolutely hate to see Obama or Hillary win the White House in November, a very large part of me would just love to see John McCain get screwed by McCain-Feingold. That would be some sweet justice.
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IM
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“ It’s not the peel, it’s the ‘nana. ”
Bollo
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Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein write the perfect song
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“ I hope he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx soon. ”
John McCain on Fidel Castro
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There's a new restaurant that's opened up near us called the Snellville Diner. We keep saying, "We need to try the Snellville Diner," but so far we haven't gotten over there. And now, I don't know if we ever will. They had a health inspection on Feb. 18 and they got a 29 out of 100!!! What the hell?!? How do you get 29 out of 100? Correction: how do you get a 29 out of 100 and stay open?
They had a follow-up inspection yesterday and this time they scored a stellar 62. From reading the inspection reports, not only were there problems from the first inspection that weren't dealt with, there were new problems. Several of the problems dealt with not washing hands after hitting the restroom and improper handling of things like raw chicken and other things that are going to end up killing someone.
You can read the reports for yourself here. But the two egregious reports are
After the crappy BBQ place that was in that location before closed up, I was happy to see something new opening up. But if they are off to such an awful start, I doubt it's going to last. I can tell you it's going to take about 6 health inspections with 100's on them before I'd be willing to try it.
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真正让我开始觉得心里踏实是以程序员为职业之后。我的职业之路起步于Java,做的是服务器端的开发。跨平台的Java让我的目光不在局限于微软的平台,而服务器端的开发,让我有机会更加关注软件设计本身,而并非花哨的表现形式。随着开发越做越多,我逐渐开始摸索到了一些共性的东西,对自己的程序人生充满了信心。
走不同的路,得到的结果差异会很大。从上面提到的我个人的经历反映出在不同的技术社区内的不同倾向。记得有人说过,微软社区更倾向于探究底层实现,而Java社区更关注设计架构。其实,差别并不只这些,比如,微软的技术社区倾向于追踪新技术,因为几乎差不多每隔几年,微软就要把自己的东西推翻了重来,从DOS到Windows,再到.NET的变化,而Java社区的人则是在一个稳定的基础上不断的发展。微软是为了商业上的发展,所以,它要不断推陈出新,而Java也有变化,比如EJB到without EJB,但决定因素多半是技术上的,而非商业上的。
如我前面所说,微软社区有很多人关注的是一些细节上的实现,所以,造成的结果是他们不得不在茂密的技术丛林中不断摸索,而无暇顾及其它。我们公司内部,有一个技能列表,上面记录着哪些人会哪些东西,比如Java、.NET、Ruby等等,这样方便做项目时进行资源调配。其中有一个有趣的现象,只拥有一项技能的开发人员大多都属于.NET阵营。而Java阵营的人,经过最初的探索,会发现原来自己学到的东西是可以用在很多其它的地方,于是他们的触角开始伸向其它地方,比如JavaEye这个以Java命名的网站上会有很多关于Ruby的讨论、关于函数式编程的讨论、关于Erlang的讨论,这些东西少有会对Java开发本身产生直接的帮助。
如果已经从最初的阶段突围而出,或许,这些差异并不重要,因为我们做事靠的是自己的方法和一些共性的东西。但对于刚开始成为程序员的人来说,并不知道这些差别的存在,一个人的见识有限时,他会认为自己见到的就是整个的世界,就像我刚开始编程那会儿。
其实,我觉得最适合编程起步的应该是Unix开发。这些年里,很多出自贝尔实验室的书,比如《Unix编程环境》、《程序设计实践》、《C程序设计语言》等等都是在探索软件开发本质的书,而Unix的诞生地正是贝尔实验室。Eric Raymond写过一本《Unix编程艺术》,品味之下,便不难发现,许多随着Unix而生的是做事的方法,而这些方法并不是把人限制在Unix这个具体的平台之上,而更多的是一种通用的软件开发理念,拥有了这些理念,即便进入了一个陌生的领域,只要稍加学习,从前的感觉便会回到身边。
起步固然重要,不过,即便起步并非一帆风顺,如果抱有一个开放的心和一个思考的大脑,最终,都会走上同样的开发之路。
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