February 2010
6 posts
I’ve switched over to using Things for my task management, and I love it. I used to use a moleskine with a pretty jacked up taskflow that worked for me in the rare cases that I remembered to use it. The problem with that system was that in order to almost always have my notebook, I kept it in my messenger bag…and never took it out. So I never used it.
So I now I have this moleskine...
MassTexter Follow Up
So, it’s the end of the week, and I thought I would write some follow up information on the masstexter.
I got the masstexter up and working Thursday night; we used it for all of PyCon.
With ten people using it we had a really high response rate—people generally got the message sent to them within seconds of someone sending a message out. I left the code sending the message to...
Python + Django vs. C# + ASP.NET: Productivity... →
Kurt goes into some detail about the stats behind our company’s switch from the .NET stack to a Django stack for our web development.
I love finding out I was a guinea pig for all of this.
Introducing MassText
This past weekend, I was at PyCon. My entire department went, which led to some communication difficulties. While we all had each other’s mobile numbers, text messages and phone calls were requiring a phone tree system, which was both lossy—not everyone got the messages—and really inefficient.
Not to mention irritating.
Programming to the Rescue
Fortunately, Twilio recently...
“Theater doesn’t make for authentic public
discourse.”
– Jon Stewart, in this interview in the Hartford Advocate.
There is an odd comment going around since the iPad demo happened. I’m not sure where it started, but it goes something like this:
If I want a piece of toast, I shouldn’t have to know how to build a toaster.
This is a load of crap, as a computing analogy. If you want to write an email, no one expects you to build a computer, or write an email client. They expect you to be able...