Matthew DiIulio shares a few good reasons for why “Everyone Needs A Personal Website“.  All are valid, even if simplistic: Using social media for your web presence works wonderfully, but you don’t own and control your content. At any time your social media account could be deleted, and then your long time web presence is … Continue reading Everyone needs a website
This weekend I got my first bar ban. Â I was asked to leave TePee Strictly Rock bar and to never ever come back. Â Which I did and which I won’t. (This post is here mostly for those people who were there on Saturday and who keep asking me what happened.) What happened was an escalation … Continue reading TePee no more …
a good programmer knows they have to do terrible things to their code. Do it because if you don’t, I guarantee you other people will, and when they do, they will either walk away or create a support ticket. I’m not sure which is worse. Jeff Atwood
Just a few weeks after we’ve started using jQuery 2, the news come in of the new major release of jQuery being not too far away: It’s been a long time since we did a major release, and you certainly deserve one. So we’re glad to announce the first alpha of jQuery 3.0! Despite the … Continue reading jQuery 3.0 Alpha release
How Complex Systems Fail – a very concise, yet complete paper on how complex systems fail.  It’s not system or industry specific.  Here are just the bullet points: Complex systems are intrinsically hazardous systems. Complex systems are heavily and successfully defended against failure. Catastrophe requires multiple failures – single point failures are not enough… Complex systems … Continue reading How Complex Systems Fail