Blogging from TextMate

I was reading a sample chapter of TextMate Power Editing for the Mac about all the bundles in TextMate. Of course, the one for html is really nice and solves almost everything that I hate about writing a blog post. Looking through the rest of the bundles, what do I see? One for blogging. I’m [...]

I Should Start Networking

My last post got a trackback, which is really cool, especially considering my posting frequency . It also happens to be an awesome post jam-packed with juicy stuff, titled Canada’s Mojo Rising. It’s from Austin Hill, which I talked a bit about in my last post, and it’s about the emerging tech entrepreneurship in [...]

SE humour: XP and Waterfall

Extreme Programming (XP) is a revolutionary software development methodology in which programmers write code whilst skiing down mountains, parachuting out of airplanes, being chased by rapacious sharks, or participating in any of a wide variety of other extreme sports.
Extreme Programming – Uncyclopedia
There’s a lot of fun stuff at the uncyclopedia. Check it out. Also [...]

Relaunch coming

In the last few months, I have accumulated quite a lot of blogging material. I will get on a weekly posting schedule.
My first post next week will be a retrospective of CUSEC 2006, a conference on software engineering here in Montreal. We have mr. Rails himself, David Heinemeier Hansson, talking and also my favorite blogger, [...]

Switch

I just bought an iMac. Seriously. About one hour ago. I think I was possessed by some kind of demon at the time. I mean, there is no way I can rationally justify this purchase. So I bought an iPod to go with it. There is a deal this summer for student (free ipod mini [...]

Time

No, I’m not going to complain that I’ve been too busy to update my blog. Anyway, it seems I post once a month. But I’m going to complain that I’m lacking time to read everything I would like to. For example, I haven’t read the eXtreme Programming mailing list on yahoo groups for more than [...]

Djief

Once again, I start a blog and leave it to rot for a few weeks. Actually, I started a new post two weeks ago about Lean Software Developement by Mary and Tom Poppendiek, telling how great of a book it is. However I did not like the few sentences I had written. It did not [...]

2 weeks with ASP.Net

I inherited some of the worst code I have ever seen. Part of the problem, according to the original coder, is ASP.Net strange ways of doing things. The real problem is that he didn’t really try to understand how the framework actually works. This led to him creating a method called EnsureStart() that is the [...]

Undergraduation

Undergraduation

The social sciences are also fairly bogus, because they’re so much influenced by intellectual fashions. If a physicist met a colleague from 100 years ago, he could teach him some new things; if a psychologist met a colleague from 100 years ago, they’d just get into an ideological argument.
That was too funny to pass on. [...]

Djief, the untold story

the forest wallaby Dorcopsis muelleri (or Djief in Meybrat language)
CAR May 03 webnews
I have been using djief as a nickname for about 8 years now thinking it meant nothing. Guess I was wrong. Djief is apparently a wallaby, a marsupial from the western half of New Guinea.