Once upon a time, a student asked his music teacher the most difficult philosophical question in all of music and received wisdom. T’Challa: “Teacher, there are so many instruments to pick from, which one is the best?”Mrs. Ngudu: “Which is the best? You are the best instrument, T’Challa. All the music comes from you! Do […]
Category: Overlooked Resources
Overlooked Resources: A Really GOOD Favicon Generator and Checker
There are a number of slightly conflicting favicon standards and each system works a slightly different way. Having done searches at various times for reliable generators, I never found a good one until I accidentally saw an excellent one linked from an SO answer. It handles all the formats, and can check which systems will […]
James Mickens: Life as a Developer
Below is a somewhat whimsical talk given by James Mickens last year titled Life as a Developer: My Code Does Not Work Because I am a Victim of Complex Societal Factors That are Beyond My Control. (If you recall, Mickens is the guy who did the insane/awesome Monitorama talk about the cloud a few years […]
Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy
This is an excellent presentation of the “soft tech talk” type given by Rich Hickey about the difference between a thing being “easy” in the sense that it is near to our experience and it actually being “simple” in the sense that understanding the idea does not force us to understand a lot of other […]
Fred Brooks: Design Requirements
This overlooked resource is a talk that Fred Brooks gave to a very small audience June 4, 2007 — the first day of the WSOM Design Requirements Workshop. He does not discuss requirements or elicitation of requirements (which is what everybody else talked about) but rather discusses design as a process and how that is […]