March 2008
13 posts
Paul's LRUG talk about "re-routing" Rails →
“And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it...”
– Apsley Cherry-Garrard in The Worst Journey in the World
“Your organization is going to spend a lot more on somebody - you or somebody...”
– Kent Beck via Mike Roberts.
Hannah puts her head above the parapet and posts... →
BBC's iPlayer DRM cracked again →
Paul’s hackery makes it onto boingboing.
“[…] in talking with employees, I seldom focus on numbers but instead on...”
– Excerpt from an interview with Kris Gopalakrishnan, Cofounder and CEO of Infosys Technologies ($3.1 Billion revenue, 80,000 employees) in the March edition of the Harvard Business Review (via a blog post from Jonathan Rasmusson).
Unanswered Big Questions →
Part of National Science & Engineering Week
Paul cracks open the BBC iPlayer →
“Make it OK to challenge an idea or two, the good ideas can withstand it and the...”
– Brad Bird, writer/director of the Incredibles.
“Don’t take their solution method for a problem definition.”
– Are Your Lights On? by Donald C. Gause & Gerald M. Weinberg
“You can never be sure you have a correct [problem] definition, but don’t...”
– Are Your Lights On? by Donald C. Gause & Gerald M. Weinberg
Apple doesn’t get it →
Apparently: “If you want to sell apps for the iPhone you gotta give Apple 30%”.