I just saw this over at Russell Beattie’s site. Now, I don’t read regularly read a paper that carries Boondocks, but when I do, I find it to be one of the more spot on and intelligent strips out there.
Here’s today’s strip:
Funny, right?
Well, too bad you won’t see it if you read the Chicago [...]
Part 3 of a 3 part series…
What a difference a few years make in this business. One day you don’t have positions open for the all people you want to hire. And the next you are challenged with finding enough people that are the proper fit for your organization.
But how do you determine the proper [...]
Part 2 of a 3 part series…
What are the hallmarks of a great engineer?
A great engineer is characterized by their intelligence, versatility, creativity, loyalty, passion, experience, vision, dedication, composure, humility, and ability. While most of these are self-explanatory, each bears a bit of explanation in the context of being a great engineer.
Intelligence, for an engineer, [...]
Part 1 of a 3 part series…
The importance of hiring great engineers can not be overstated.
The engineer is the lifeblood of today’s corporation. If your company is dependent on revenue that is generated in whole or in part on systems developed in-house, then you are running a software company. It doesn’t matter if you are [...]
I’ve re-enabled comments on unto.net.
I deleted all of the old comments and added some new anti-spam measures to prevent blog spamming. Those measures aren’t sophisticated, but should be enough to at least get the spammers to read this post before they try to find a work-around. So to the potential comment-spammers, I say this:
The comment [...]
A week ago I was killing some time waiting for M’s flight and I noticed a URL in my referrer logs from a site I was unfamiliar with. The link was to a fun technical piece I wrote and I was curious to see why, so I followed the referrer back to the source. But [...]
The fact of the matter is this — this country has both laws and a process by which we create those laws. And as far as we are able to respect that process we are to respect the laws that are manifested as a result.
However, when that process is subverted, then those laws are unjust. [...]
In case you hadn’t heard about it, Amazon recently introduced an all-you-can-eat expedited shipping plan called “Amazon Prime.”
At first I held back signing up for it, figuring that I often qualify for free shipping anyway. And people that buy a lot from Amazon knew the secret — that standard shipping often arrives in two days, [...]
A9 just released a new version of the A9 Toolbar. In addition to all the old useful features, such as fast searches, annotating web pages, managing bookmarks, site info, etc., this version adds a feature that many of our users have been asking for — the ability to turn the history on or off with [...]
I made some modifications to the layout. Mostly to reduce the page weight and migrate toward strict HTML and CSS compliance.
Also, because I read Russell Beattie Notebook on an almost daily basis and love the clean design he chose.
And as usual, I haven’t even looked at it in I.E. So more changes are sure to [...]
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