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Who Moved My Cheese? The New WordPress Admin Interface26 comments

engtech wrote 1 year ago: Two of my blogging heroes and inspiration Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky have joined together on a ne … more →

Tags: WordPress, technology, Akismet, Akismet Bug, User Interfaces, WordPress Admin

The Canary in the Coal Mine of Open Source Code Re-use3 comments

engtech wrote 1 year ago: Don’t reinvent the wheel. Like all advice it’s much easier to say then it is to do, par … more →

Tags: Humor, Software, technology, code reuse, Open Source Software

Why Open Source Software Sucks - Software Simplicity Isn't Simple15 comments

engtech wrote 1 year ago: Aside: Hosted software would be something like Gmail, while installable software would be something … more →

Tags: technology, rails, Ruby, Joel Spolsky, Ruby on Rails, Jeff Atwood, 37signals, simplicity, Minimalism

People Are Computers Too - How Improving Applications Can Improve Your Life2 comments

engtech wrote 1 year ago: This week I’ve been talking about code profiling and how if you want to analyze the performan … more →

Tags: Increasing Productivity and Simplifying Your Life, technology, Computers, efficiency, Getting to Done, lifehacks, Time Efficiency, Time Management

Book Review: Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers6 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: I heard about Programmers at Work in the blog buzz surrounding the release of Founders at Work. Prog … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, technology

Favorite Quotations from Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers8 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: Coding Horror has a post asking people what their favorite programming quotations are. He throws a s … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, technology

How I Learned to Shoot the Engineers and Ship the Product (by guest blogger Andy Lawrence)28 comments

Guest Blogger wrote 2 years ago: This post is by a guest blogger. Andy Lawrence aka andyxl is the Head of the School of Physics and a … more →

Tags: technology

Getting Started with Google Code Hosting, Subversion, and TortoiseSVN without feeling like an Idiot18 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: I’ve been using Google’s open source project hosting to distribute my Tag Cloud Generato … more →

Tags: technology

The Missing Curriculum for Programmers and High Tech Workers18 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: I’ve been thinking about what I learned in University and more importantly what I’ve lea … more →

Tags: technology

What’s a URL to do? – How to Save URLs8 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: The World Wide Web is an apt analogy. We’re all spiders spinning threads of links. Some people … more →

Tags: Web 2.0 and Social Media, technology

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engtech wrote 2 years ago: Every blogger knows that when you put your email address on your About Me page you get a certain amo … more →

Tags: Links, technology

Getting to Simple - Engineers Have No Idea How Normal Human Beings Interact With Their Environments26 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: One of the best known programming axioms is KISS — Keep It Simple, Stupid [wiki]. It is someth … more →

Tags: Increasing Productivity and Simplifying Your Life, technology

Programming Advice for Newbs2 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: Chuck Jazdzewski has excellent Fatherly Advice for New Programmers (source). I’ve had an essay … more →

Tags: Links, technology

Hacking for Hollywood - Programming in the movies6 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: drivl.com is an entertainment site by seomoz.org. I think the content is written intentionally to sp … more →

Tags: Movies, technology

How to be a Programmer with 10 Simple Books (GGG5)17 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: (Continued from Gift Guide for Geeks Part 4 – Comic books) (Start at Gift Guide for Geeks Par … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Geeking out, technology

How Google does web-based code reviews with Mondrian1 comment

engtech wrote 2 years ago: Niall has a good post describing an internal Google tool for web-based code reviews built by the sam … more →

Tags: Links, technology

programmers vs biologists vs evolution (hello world)9 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: Some geek grab bag. I’ve talked about programmers vs developers, but what about programmers vs … more →

Tags: Humor, technology

Book Review: JPod by Douglas Coupland5 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: Jpod is the sequel (in spirit) to Microserfs. The mid-nineties fast forwards to the mid-naughts and … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Games, technology

Quotes and Quotations from JPod by Douglas Coupland4 comments

engtech wrote 2 years ago: This is a list of my favorite quotes and quotations from JPod by Douglas Coupland. Related Posts Bo … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Games, technology


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