Austin Mills: Code, Methodologies, Games, etc.
Posted in Coding, Development Methods on Jun 23rd, 2009
Auren Hoffman has a good post on TechCrunch about how now might be a great time to cherry-pick the best software engineers available, and how it can pay off not only in the short term, but also over the long, to hire high-quality developers and spend money on developing them individually rather than hiring more, [...]
Posted in Coding, Development Methods on Jun 16th, 2008
InfoQ has a great video interview with Randy Shoup, in charge of search at Ebay, where he talks about several things, including their heavy use of partitioning, the unique issues you run into with such a high volume site, and what’s coming up for them.
Btw, I love InfoQ’s interface for presenting not only the video [...]
Posted in Development Methods on Jan 16th, 2007
There have been a couple of notable lists written past year about how to get and keep talented developers — first Joel Spolsky wrote A Field Guide to Developers, and then Rob wrote Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money. They both agreed on Rob’s titular point… money is one of the last considerations that [...]
Posted in Development Methods on Dec 5th, 2006
Suzanne Williams at Venture Law Lines writes “If you want to sell your own proprietary software, make sure you have a strictly enforced policy against using open source.”
If only all my competitors would follow this advice. This advice at first sounded crazy to me, but after reading further I think I understand where she’s coming [...]
Posted in Development Methods on Nov 12th, 2006
I’ve been generally interested in both Ruby and Rails since hearing Dave Thomas speak about them at a conference a year ago, but never really had the time to sit down and focus on them, so apart from skimming through the pickaxe book I can’t say that I’ve done much. A small part of that [...]
Posted in Development Methods, Space on Nov 3rd, 2006
Having been generally interested in space exploration for many years, when a friend of mine suggested a road trip to go to the X-Prize Cup, how could I turn it down? Six of us went and had a blast at the competition itself talking to the various groups and watching the competitions going on, including [...]