no buzzwords allowed
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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!”);
WP plugins (like the others already have — FF extensions, Eclipse plugins, Google Gadgets, WARs …) should have a solid structure so that the management of the plugins could be automated. One click install, update notifications or automatic updates, public repositories and other cool features can be built upon this.