I wasn’t able to post one daily entry yesterday because the net connection was down at Lex and Flori’s place. Here’s the make up post.



Zed Shaw
is (in)famous within online dev circles for two things: his rant on Rails (which didn’t even spare Dave Thomas :D ) and his talk at CUSEC about how the corporate world screws with developers. He has retracted the former so here’s the latter instead:


Zed Shaw – The ACL is Dead from CUSEC on Vimeo.

It’s funny, informative, and depressing. A definite “must watch” for every developer who works or plans to work in the corporate world.

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