Compass is a stylesheet authoring tool that uses the Sass stylesheet language to make your stylesheets smaller and your web site easier to maintain. Compass provides ports of the best of breed css frameworks that you can use without forcing you to use their presentational class names. It’s a new way of thinking about stylesheets that must be seen in action!
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Gary's company has an "enterprise" application, and like any enterprise application, it was built to be all things for all people, by people that didn't have a clear picture of which things it was supposed to be to whom. While a customer could, in theory, install and configure it on their own, pretty much everyone paid for a consultant to handle the setup for them. Gary was one of those consultants.
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I love VIM and I recently stumbled upon a feature that you probably know
from TextMate: Skip the Closing bracket when typing.
inoremap ( ()
inoremap ) strpart(getline('.'), col('.')-1, 1) == ")" ? "\" : ")"
This just skips the closing bracket and you can go on typing without
having to leave insert mode or do some awkward Emacs movements.
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Those who don’t have a to-do list probably feel they should, because they’re swamped and feeling overwhelmed.
I’m here to suggest: kill your to-do list.
Good read. Especially If you are stuck somewhere in the middle of your Allen Bible (like me).
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We’re always talking about tough clients, bad clients and boring clients. But what about the great clients who are simply having a hard time? When you work remotely, it can be difficult to tell when clients or colleagues — good or otherwise — are having serious trouble achieving a task you need them to do.
A must-read for every freelance worker / artist.
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Unlike Microsoft in the early days, these guys move fast, and they add real additional value along the way.
Good essay on the parallels between iPad and the first Macs. (via Slashdot)
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How many hours a week should a full-time programmer program? Trying to program anywhere near 40 wears me out. On a good week, I can do 20. Often, it is around 10 or 15. I'm talking about your programming session at the console, typing — including, of course, stopping and thinking for a minute, but not meetings, reading programming books, notes, specifications, etc., which by comparison feel like lunch breaks. I rarely get called to meetings (which is good) but that means to keep my brain from overheating I spend several hours a week surfing the web (usually reading tech news but also a few stops on Facebook, email, etc.).
Good to see that I am not the only one being distracted. Also a must read: the latest issue of WIRED (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/st_essay_distraction/).>
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As an exercise, I want to write a Hello World program in C simple enough that I can disassemble it and be able to explain all of the assembly to myself.
This should be easy, right?
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While attending PHPUK conference in London, I noticed how much talk there is about PHP 5.3 and “when to upgrade?”, there was even a presentation about that. Because I have been using PHP 5.3 for more than half a year, I decided to share my views on this topic. This topic is very important as the earlier PHP 5.3 is adopted, the sooner second iteration of frameworks can be released
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At GitHub we don’t have a project tracker or todo list – we just all work on whatever is most interesting to us. No standup meetings, burndown charts or points to assign. No chickens or pigs. It’s sort of the open source software style of business – everyone itches thier own scratch. Inexplicably, it works really well and keeps everyone engaged, new features appearing quickly and bugs fixed rather fast. No managers, directors, PMs or departments – and it’s the most agile, focused and efficient team I’ve ever worked with. Maybe we should write a book about it.
Interesting (and amusing) interview with scott chacon of github.
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