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Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
I think it’s a pretty apt visual metaphor for the difference between your application’s design and the actual implementation.
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It’ll be really amusing to Flash developers, but I think that nerds of all stripes who like action movies will love Animator vs. Animation.
By now, you’ve probably heard that three — possibly four — undersea internet cables have been cut, and you’ve probably heard the conspiracy theories. Perhaps it’s just a fluke — such things do happen in complex systems — but I am reminded of the words of James Bond archvillain Auric Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
(Initially I thought it was James Bond who said it, but it’s actually Goldfinger’s line. Still, it’s an impressive line if you say it in a Sean Connery-esque voice.)
Here’s a snippet from an article in The Christian Science Monitor titled Résumé Advice for the Over-50 Crowd:
Does your résumé look weathered? Has it grown to three or four pages over time? Is your first job after high school graduation still listed? Are you still displaying the date you graduated from college?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, she says, it’s time to redo your résumé.
In his latest article on Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood talks about the importance of getting your database under version control and links to K. Scott Allen’s series of articles on the topic:
Lucky me, I’ve got Rails migrations, which are suitable for small teams. Other development platforms will require different approaches, some of which are covered by Allen’s articles. If there’s a topic that’s screaming for a book or website, this is it!
After reading Bill Burke’s article, Dynamic Languages: Rationalizations and Myths, you might also want to look at Patrick Logan’s articles, Dynamic Languages: Should the Tools Suck? and Deeper Dynamics.