Archive for November, 2004

My hovercraf
t is full of eels: Assistant Orange Peelers
The author raises a very good point. I don’t believe you can be successful (or perhaps, its more difficult to be successful) if you break software develop
ment down into a series of specializations. Although a developer may have more training and intimate knowledge in a [...]

The software company I work for, GenoLogics Life Sciences Software, is looking for a few qualified software develo
pers.
We definately do J2EE and would encourage all qualified applicants willing to relocate to the very livable Vancouver Island, British Columbia. We’re a gro
wing (and fairly technologically progressive) software company with a strong focus on biotech management [...]

We’ve come up with the idea of having a book club at work.
We’re still a small company in start-up mode and see such an idea as a way to encourge personal growth and knowledge sharing through the organization.
The book club is going to target both developers and those on the marketing/business side. To start [...]

Why I put my phone number on my blog
Robert Scoble, of Microsoft, just posted an interesting story that came about as a result of him posting his cell phone number on his blog.
Turns out that a producer of ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover (a pretty cool show I must say) was wondering if Microsoft would be [...]

When will the music industry do it right?
Mark Cuban makes some very good points on the current state of the music industry and what he thinks could be done to increase revenues, legitimicize p2p d
ownloads and remain sustainable.
I think that many of his points are valid and we’ll see if there is any headway made [...]

Salaries in NW up in techland
Now being someone who lives in the NW (actually, Victoria, BC but still below the 49th parallel), this is the kind of information I like to see. I was for
tunate enough to come out of University and land a job with an up and coming startup. Sure there [...]




  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...

  • An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...

  • Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...





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    • Meetings all day, no time to hit the gym. Guess I better go now.... 6:30am.
    • Played around with Fring for a couple minutes tonight, Skype seemed to work (if only to call a test account of mine). 3G would be nice! :)
    • Watched nick and norahs tonight. Have to admit that it was pretty funny. Two weeks until W, wonder what that's going to be like.
    • Locly is a pretty sweet location-based app for the iPhone. Should have busted it out last week in Seattle.

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