Posts Tagged ‘jb’
If You Don’t Think You Need It, You Haven’t Seen Greatness | TechCrunch
“If you don’t think you need a position and that position has a well-known title like product manager, product marketer, etc, it’s far more likely that you’ve just never seen or worked with greatness at that position.”
via If You Don’t Think You Need It, You Haven’t Seen Greatness | TechCrunch.
TTOR :: Vim Creep
It all started out innocently enough. You experimented with it once or twice in your first year of college, but Nano and Pico were easier—closer to what you had already been using during high school on the Windows machines and Macs. But as time went on and you got more experience under your belt in the college-level computer science courses, you started to notice something: All of the really great programmers—the kind who churned out 4 line solutions for an assignment that took you 10 pages of code to complete; the kind who produced ridiculously over-featured class projects in a day while you struggled with just the basics for weeks—none of them used Nano or Pico.
via TTOR :: Vim Creep.
What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies – Instagram Engineering
What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies – Instagram Engineering.
Detailed description of architecture and technology.
Team Geek – O’Reilly Media
In this highly entertaining book, Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman cover basic patterns and anti-patterns for working with other people, teams, and users while trying to develop software.
Software Inventory – Joel on Software
The trouble is that 90% of the things in the feature backlog will never get implemented, ever. So every minute you spent writing down, designing, thinking about, or discussing features that are never going to get implemented is just time wasted. When I hear about product teams that regularly have “backlog grooming” sessions, in which they carefully waste a tiny amount of time and mental energy every day or every week thinking about every single feature which will never be implemented, I want to poke my eyes out.
via Software Inventory – Joel on Software.
Great article on why bug databases can be a drain, how feature backlogs can get out of hand and how undeployed features are costing you.
Planning a Cassandra Cluster Deployment
Planning a Cassandra Cluster Deployment | DataStax Cassandra 1.0 Documentation.
With exact advice for running on EC2.
