I tried that MAMP installer once. Im pretty sure it gave me the MUMPs. No, maybe it was just a toothache, but I forget. It was so long ago. Then, there was this one time that I installed LAMP, and that left me with a big LUMP. on my shin – I banged it on the corner of the server case in the dark while getting a glass of water at 2:00 am. Then I tried that WAMP installer-thing on a Windows OS? Yep- you guessed it. My co-workers repeatedly informed that the mere suggestion of the use of a WAMP installer could elevate my WIMP levels substantially. Well, needless to say… I need no additional assistance with that!So. “Whats my point?” …ask you? I leave you with three of my favorite quotes;1 “Named must your fear be, before banish it you can.”-Jedi Master Yoda, Star Wars Trilogy2 ” Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.”-Jedi Master Yoda, Star Wars Trilogy3 “view the source, Luke!”-whooamijebus, that still makes me laugh out loud. I think I have dain bramage or something.:P
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August 16, 2011Chronicles of Conflict: the History of Adobe vs. Apple — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
March 15, 2011The Genesis of Adobe
In the beginning, Xerox PARC created the graphical desktop. The personal computer was yet formless and empty, and darkness was upon the face of its software development. And then the money of Xerox moved to and fro upon the waters of innovation and PARC said, let there be icons and windows and Ethernet and SmallTalk object oriented development. And lo, there was a $15,000 workstation, and Xerox saw the Alto, and that it was good.
And then Steve Jobs saw the Alto, and he convinced Xerox to invest a million dollars in Apple. And Jobs said that Apple would commercialize Xerox’ technology and make the company rich on its investment. And thus Apple created Macintosh, which then attracted engineers from Xerox who joined Apple in order to work on products that might actually turn into something a person might actually see in the real world and not just in a PARC lab.
via Chronicles of Conflict: the History of Adobe vs. Apple — RoughlyDrafted Magazine.
Google goes to the tape to get lost emails back – Google 24/7 – Fortune Tech
March 1, 2011Google goes to the tape to get lost emails back
Posted by Seth Weintraub
February 28, 2011 10:36 PM
I wasn’t even aware they still used tape backups.
via Google goes to the tape to get lost emails back – Google 24/7 – Fortune Tech.
MF Bliki: TwoHardThings
February 8, 2011There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
–Phil Karlton
Long a favorite saying of mine(Martin Fowler), one for which I couldnt find a satisfactory URL.
There is also a variation on this that says there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Steveys Blog Rants: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns
December 10, 2010Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns Theyve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs: theyre the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! Thats what I say!— Humpty Dumpty
via Steveys Blog Rants: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns.
Sean Corfield pointed me to this one [http://corfield.org].
Hilarious.
Web Designers vs. Web Developers Infographic
November 13, 2010Apache Ant User Manual
September 17, 2010Look for Ant in Anger under Developing with Ant.
Looking forward to becoming a ‘petulant prima-donna’!
One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
September 9, 20101983 – Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything hes ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence. Build times suffer. Skynets motives for performing the service remain unclear but spokespeople from the future say “there is nothing to be concerned about, baby,” in an Austrian accented monotones. There is some speculation that Skynet is nothing more than a pretentious buffer overrun.
via One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.
The Joy of Technology – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
August 30, 2010Not to be outdone by upstart web apps, Microsoft Word quits when I edit a document, and none of the standard fixes help. Word has not been updated for the Macintosh for years, of course, and it runs in emulation on Intel Macs, but I am used to that. Updating the Normal template was the last thing I did before Word started eating its own head.
Mmm, that’s good coffee.
via The Joy of Technology – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report.
