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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Recruiting the Top 1 Percent
Joel Spolsky recently wrote a guest editorial on Inc.om. It was a good read, and I happen to agree with him on most points. One of the main points is a top developer is often 10 times more valuable than … Continue reading
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Programming — Old and New
I’ve been around software and technology for a long time now. My early days were filled with coding in Assembler. From there, I graduated to C/C++, then Java, .NET, and lately Ruby. There are a few others in there as … Continue reading
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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
This is a great tool to keep around. A picture is almost always better when you are trying to get your point across, and this one page gives you lots of examples.
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Google, where’s the love?
Google Developer Day is coming May 31. It’s a global event held in 10 cities at the same time, but note there is only one location in the US, and it’s nowhere near Boston. There is a decent cluster in … Continue reading
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Ruby scaling
According to the lead developer at Twitter, Ruby doesn’t scale easily. While I agree there are issues with scaling in Ruby, it can be done. The issues are just different. Where I think people get in trouble is to depend … Continue reading
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Welcoming Declan to the world
My son, Declan, was born March 31, 2007. Declan is my wife and I’s third child. The twins, Cameron and Zoe, are very excited. We are all a little sleep deprived, but that is to be expected. The great thing … Continue reading
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Hello world!
This is my first post of many. Why Big Dave? First of all, when you are 6’5″ tall, people tend to classify you as big. Pretty soon I was always being referred to as “Big Dave”. It’s interesting that even … Continue reading
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