September 2009 Blog Posts

Ok, Joel Spolsky is a terrific writer.  His latest entry – a sort of semi-review of Coders at Work – is not only praise for, but a bow to, roll-up-the-sleeves programming versus “jargon jagoffs”.  His exuberance on this shows through in one of the greatest lines I’ve read in a blog thus far: Mediocre programmers are, frankly, defensive about this, and they don’t want to admit that they’re not able to write this super-complicated code, so they let the bullies on their team plow away with some godforsaken template architecture in C++ because otherwise they’d have...

It is 2:28am, Sunday, September 13.  The last 48+ hours have been a literal nightmare, if not simply the worst in my life.  Some explainin’: I have had foot surgery again, this time, the right foot.  When I went in, the anesthesiologist was an arrogant TR Knight looking guy who moved me along a little quickly.  He kept bringing up having a nerve block done and asking if that’s what I had last time.  I had no idea, and kept trying to think it through until he said we kind of had to move along, so I just said...