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In the Pradipta 416

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Bill

For what its worth, I was one of the Pradipta 416, a group of 416 recipients of an email seeking a Ruby on Rails developer. Trouble is, we weren’t BCCed, so it became a huge email thread and spawned a … Continue reading →

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Follow the process?

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Bill

I have been making my living for the last 20+ years following processes.  Unfortunately, I have not seen that processes have been maintained, evaluated, and evolved as they should be.  My theory is this: no one collects any metrics anymore, … Continue reading →

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Advanced Rails Studio

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Bill

advrailsdallas_5 Originally uploaded by pragdave. This past week I attended the Advanced Rails Studio in Dallas and had a fabulous time. The picture you see is from our lunch outside on Friday — I am in mid-gesture at the near … Continue reading →

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GeoKit: Going International?

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Bill

We have been asked whether GeoKit could be made to support UK addresses and this is something that we’re interested in doing.  I must admit that I was incompletely uninformed as to how different these addresses really are.  Just have … Continue reading →

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GeoKit: More Syntactic Sugar

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Bill

We just checked in code which improves the readability of GeoKit’s finders. Its quite obvious from the code, so just take a look at these examples: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … Continue reading →

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GeoKit: Some Minor Feature Tweaks

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Bill

In the last couple of days, I added a couple of minor feature tweaks. First, the finders will now all accept optional :units and :formula keys to enable you to override the units and formula used by the model by … Continue reading →

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GeoKit Examples

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Bill

On Friday when GeoKit was released, I wrote a pretty lame write-up.  I am fixing that now with some live examples.  I’m working on them as I write this, but you can check now or come back later.  They are … Continue reading →

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Asshole or Maverick?

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Bill

I was amused recently when I read two of Guy Kawasaki’s recent book reviews.  The two books reviewed are The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t and Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original … Continue reading →

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