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To be honest, I don’t have a specific agenda for what I want to do all that differently, apart from what I’m already trying to do every day:

• identify and destroy small-return bullshit;
• shut off anything that’s noisier than it is useful;
• make brutally fast decisions about what I don’t need to be doing;
• avoid anything that feels like fake sincerity (esp. where it may touch money);
• demand personal focus on making good things;
• put a handful of real people near the center of everything.

All I know right now is that I want to do all of it better. Everything better. Better, better.

The Z2k9 culprit?  Is this really Micro$oft code?

Interesting piece.  Makes me think of football/soccer: two countries (Brazil and Italy) have won 9 of the 18 World Cups.  These teams seem to have worked out formulas for success (players, strategy, tactics, preparation, and the dash of luck).  But they haven’t won all 18, so there are times when some or all the elements were not there, e.g. the players weren’t good enough, the tactics were wrong or incorrectly applied.  Programming is like a team sport: you need the right people, the right techniques and the right management .  Agile may work for some teams, or it might not.

This blog post is about ruby’s callbacks(hooks): what are the available ones,and how practically we can use them?

… 21 Tested and Compared

Having recently done some work on the evolt.org wiki, I decided to write down some of my thoughts about why sometimes wikis are phenomenally successful, and others just never seem to work. Like a lot of similar issues, none of this is rocket science.

… a new addition to the language being created by Apple which adds anonymous functions to the language.

The math is simple. It costs more to make an application with depth and quality. In short order, the App Store effect will prevent the development of these deeper, higher-quality applications for the iPhone. When developers can’t charge a higher price to cover a higher investment, these applications simply won’t be made at all.

There has been much debate in the iPhone developer community about the price of applications for sale in Apple’s App Store. These prices are trending cheaper and cheaper, such that even products of considerable complexity are often available for just $1 or $2.

It’s a command-line tool that automates the generation of custom subclasses. Point it at your .xcdatamodel file and it will spew out four files per entity, two for you, two for the machine.