Here’s an ad created by the ad agency 2008Scandinavia for “Teknograd Mac Support” in which the graphic is a Mac OS X desktop with icons arranged to form images:
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If you’re a Ruby on Rails developer, there are a couple of events you might be interested in…
Manageability.org asks the question “Is Chandler’s Demise Evidence that Dynamic Languages Can’t Scale?”. For a quick reply, I’ll quote a Reddit comment: “Even if it was, such a badly-managed project wouldn’t be a good example.” Software projects have failed long before the current dynamic language hoopla — see Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood’s article, The Long, [...]
John Resig writes about how much money he made writing his book Pro JavaScript Techniques (which, as of this writing, boasts a five-star rating on Amazon.com): after collecting a $7500 advance, which applied against future profits, it took him a year’s worth of sales for him to make an additional $246.30 in profit.
He also writes [...]
Based on an item from the game Portal, it’s the casemod of the moment: The Weighted Companion PC! “The pink heart melts the frozen soul of the lonely modder!”
Registration for PyCon 2008, the 6th annual Python community conference, is now open. PyCon 2008 takes place in Chicago (at the Crowne Plaza Chiago O’Hare hotel) from Friday, March 14th through Sunday, March 16th (with tutorials on Thursday, March 13th and sprints running from Monday, March 17th through Thursday, March 20th).
If someone’s compiling a list of the most off-the-wall out-of-touch-with-reality tech blogger posts of the year, I want to nominate Robert Graham’s post at Errata Security titled Why the OLPC Promotes Terrorism. It’s so filled with the type of over-the-top pronouncements that one normally sees on extreme right-wing blogs that I had to reread to make sure that it wasn’t parody, and even now I’m not 100% sure. (Next to this article, Zed’s rant sounds rather restrained…)