Since the whole internet finds it incredibly important — Google now allows to deploy not only all of your data, but also all of your code on their proprietary, tightly controlled, fully integrated and infinitely scalable platform. As far as I understand it’s inferior to Amazon offering in every way, but one — it has a decent distributed database. May the Python empire rejoice!
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Apr 08
Twitter better than RSS, part 2
As a follow up to my previous post here’s a screenshot of my Google Talk twitter feed:
Most likely it would be easier to have a service that just posts RSS updates to IM, but Twitter’s already there and with its great API there’s a lot of third-party services around it.
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Apr 08
The Case Against The Case Against Passion
Passion is the antithesis of good programming. — I think there is a lot of misunderstanding around the notion. Good programmers need some passion, but great programmers need lots of it. For some reason everyone wants great programmers, largely because they’ve been promoted as having 10x the productivity of a usual programmer. The trick is that a great programmer will likely not be motivated to deal with the usual problems (exactly because of his passion) and likely will even underperform in such a role. My thesis is that passion is just as much important as the software you’re building is creative. Not everyone needs greatness and there’s surely not enough of it to go around. Give it up, people :)
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Apr 08
Twitter better than RSS?
I created today two twitterfeed bots — dzone, which feeds on DZone frontpage and redditprog, which feeds on Reddit Programming. The reason for this, is while I want to be in the stream of news, I don’t want them to accumulate.
What does this mean? TwitterFeed will just check the feed every half an hour and repost it to twitter. However, I’m not subscribed to Twitter via RSS. The only way I get Twitter updates is through Google Talk IM. Which means, that I get updates only when I’m online and they never accumulate in Google Reader (I tend to just delete all entries in a category if it goes over 30).
Getting updates in realtime means that you can also sort through them immediately, which is usually much easier than delaying until later and doing all-at-once. This helps cope with the amount of information I go through every day. I just wish that every news site would provide a twitter bot by default…
P.S. You can follow downgrade via a twitterfeed bot as well.
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Apr 08
Big Big News
Microsoft acquires SpringSource — what could this means for the myriad of Spring users? Certainly most of us will have to follow our thought leader to .NET, but for the stubborn ones it means a long and declining existence in a barren wasteland of a community… Well, Console.PrintLn("Goodbye, Java!");