Back to Management
It’s been nearly 4 years since I left my last post as a CTO. It has been an incredible journey as a developer jumping from one startup to another. I got to see good, bad, and ugly.
Well, the fun is over, I’m back to work:
I just joined MeeGenius as their new CTO.
I think I’m a much better CTO now than I was before thanks to my very expensive journey. I now see all the good things I did, and at the same time, able to correct bad things I did in the past.
Now, back to work…
Bringing Nil’s Behavior from Cocoa
As you may or may not know, but when you send a message to nil in Cocoa, it doesn’t do anything and certainly doesn’t raise any exception. You may or may not agree with the design, but we’ve all programmed just fine with this fact.
Having said that, what if you wanted the same behavior in Ruby?
Is this a good idea?
I can appreciate someone trained in one language/framework trying to make another one behave the same way in another. But rather than trying to change the toolset to accommodate your existing skills, why not broaden your skills by learning the new language/framework? It just may improve you.
The Best Advertisement for C# and VS?
Note: Curb Gem Posting Multi-Part (File)
Record Your Screen For Free
Here’s a simple way to record your screen using Quicktime Player that comes with your Mac.
Installing FreeImage on Mac OS X Lion
I think you all know that I don’t like Macport nor Homebrew as I prefer to compile everything. I also don’t like the fact that ImageScience requires FreeImage. Well, in order to compile and install FreeImage, you have to go modify Makefile.osx. Below is the content and here’s the link to the gist.
This is for Lion since it’s all 64-bit and the SDK is 10.7. You don’t have to worry about the latest Xcode. Just make and sudo make install. That’s all!
Developer’s Life
Bryan on CNN
Geez, What Happened?
Ok, so you may not know, all my sites are running from my data center at home. Yes, I do have a rack of servers I maintain at home. So, when the weird ass snow storm hit my area, the power went down and went down hard. I lost power on Saturday and just got it back. That’s three plus days. Obviously my UPS’s doesn’t last that long and all my sites, including this one, went down.
So, why didn’t I just redirect to my backups at EC2?
The simple answer is that I have a family and had to evacuate them to safety since without electricity, I have no running water. I also got rid of my other remote servers to save some money. Guess the savings weren’t worth it. They’re all coming back.
NeXT vs. Sun
This is quite old, but I nevertheless find this very entertaining. It also made me think about how I’d like to work. Wouldn’t it be great if we all can work in peace without useless meetings and interruptions like these programmers?
