mortals wear shoes
[Garak takes a drink of root beer]
Quark: What do you think?
Garak: It’s vile.
Quark: I know. It’s so bubbly and cloying and happy.
Garak: Just like the Federation.
Quark: And you know what’s really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it.
Garak: It’s insidious.
Quark: Just like the Federation.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - [...]
The movers are here. Packing is on-going. Everything will soon be in a container heading off the island and across the ocean. My wife and kids are flying to her mother’s tonight, and I fly out in a couple of days (we got tickets on different flights due to some cancellations).
Thank dog [...]
In virtually everything to do with software, there is often some kind of metaphor used to describe it. Often, these are taken from the building or manufacturing industries (even some of our titles are taken from these: Architect, Engineer, etc.) and many times different metaphors seem to suit different situations better. If you [...]
I’ve been playing with Google’s App Engine as part of their beta and I started thinking about what benefit Google got from it. Presumably, there will be some kind of monetary payback as those apps which exceed their “free” limit then start paying, but at the prices they are charging it seems unlikely that [...]
MJ recently wrote about the Wise Fool, as a contrast to the Wisdom of Crowds. However, I’d like to ramble for a bit on why the Wise Fool is a great thing to have in a software development team.
Developers solve problems. This is their raison d’etre. If you have a technological itch [...]
MJ writes about the iPhone for games:
The tools for building are readily available and free (though there’s a £50 charge for the certificate)
Due to the App Store distribution, the customers are accessible and many of them are looking for new software to load
The hype machine is already built
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I think this outlook on the existing mobile [...]