I tend to get excited about the oddest things. One that I’ve been fascinated with for a couple of years now is an open source project called Asterisk, originally created by a company called Digium. Loaded on a Linux system, it gives you a complete PBX phone system comparable to the ones corporations spend tens […]
Growing up, I was fascinated by and drawn to computers at an early age. My family didn’t have the money to get an Apple II like we used in elementary school, so the first personal computer in our house was a cheap IBM PC clone my oldest sister won in high school in 1989. It […]
Here’s a quick post before getting back to my homework… A little known programming language has been getting more attention lately thanks to my favorite programming book publishers, the Pragmatic Programmers, announcing an upcoming book on the subject. It’s called Erlang, and was created by the Ericsson corporation about a decade ago for use in […]
Let’s face it: The barriers to becoming a programmer are extremely low. Whether this is a good or bad thing is debatable, but an almost infinite number of internet resources means that anyone with the time and desire can learn pretty much any programming language. This, my friends, is a problem. You see, a lot […]
Note: _why removed all of his sites and code from the web in August 2009, so the links below won’t work. A good portion of his stuff has been archived at the whymirror project on Github. One of the most interesting, and by far the most entertaining, people in the Ruby community is a mysterious […]
Recently, I’ve been hearing a similar theme about software project management from a couple of difference places. I like it so much that I want to pass it along. When working on a project of any size, people naturally want to reduce or eliminate as many constraints as possible. We assume that adding more time, […]