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Zed Shaw – The ACL is Dead

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.

Steak and strippers, baby!

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.

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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.

The Parable of the Two Programmers

The Parable of the Two Programmers is my first post in one of my other blogs. Even though it was written almost 25 years ago, this “parable” is still applicable to the software industry today.

Once upon a time, unbeknownst to each other, the “Automated Accounting Applications Association” and the “Consolidated Computerized Capital Corporation” decided that they needed the identical program to perform a certain service.

Automated hired a programmer-analyst, Alan, to solve their problem.

Meanwhile, Consolidated decided to ask a newly hired entry-level programmer, Charles, to tackle the job, to see if he was as good as he pretended.

The Parable of the Two Programmers is my first post in one of my other blogs. Even though it was written almost 25 years ago, this “parable” is still applicable to the software industry today.

Unlike normal parables, however, this one covers more than one issue in the industry. These issues will give me enough writing material for about 5 or more posts in the future, thus allowing me to procrastinate on writing for today. :D

In the meantime, just read the story. Try not to get too depressed about the ending, though. :P