The Soul of Software
The good folks at Tropical Ruby have released the video of my keynote, The Soul of Software. In this talk I start with the premise that the Ruby wave may have…
Wax on, Wax off
Zed’s post on mastery is great, as usual. I have only this to add: that while mastery transcends rules, no one achieves mastery without first acquiring discipline. The masters, who…
Simplicity is Complicated
The favorite rhetorical fallback of politicians of every stripe is “it’s for the children”. Anything can be justified in terms of making things better for children if you frame it…
Rock’em Sock’em Ockham
Inspired by “this talk by Jim Weirich”:http://mtnwestrubyconf2008.confreaks.com/15weirich.html: !/images/rockoutockout.jpg! Image by “scottfeldstein”:http://flickr.com/photos/scottfeldstein/, “some rights reserved”:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en. (For the shaving nerds, this poster features the Merkur Hefty Classic, a razor I recently acquired…