Category : Blog Babble


21Apr2008

Anyone who has been in software engineering can most likely recognize the old project triangle. The basic premise to this triangle is that in software engineering you may pick only two of the tips of this triangle.

You can create software quickly and cheaply but it will suffer quality.
You can have high quality quickly but it [...]




18Apr2008

No, just kidding. I just haven’t posted any Site Malfunctions in a while so when I received this login error I thought I’d mock them. Muahaha!

EDIT: (April 18, 2008 12:22 PM)
Apparently the problems they are having are more serious than I initially thought. The Last.fm site is down due to problems with the power at [...]




18Apr2008

The song for this Friday goes way back to one of the greatest bands of all time (in my humble opinion). This is A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles. It was the feature song on their album of the same name, A Hard Day’s Night (1964).
It’s been a hard day’s night
And I’ve been working [...]




14Apr2008

Well, anyone who is “in the know” knows that the 2.5 version of WordPress has been out for a while. Ok, but a guy can’t just go updating his blog all willy-nilly. There are plugins that must be checked for compatibility and data to backup and so forth and so on. Yes, now I’m just [...]




27Mar2008

Hey, how do you like the small incremental changes I have been making to the site? What!? You haven’t noticed? Well, that just hurts. After the categories consolidation and organization into tags the footer got a little bit of a face lift. The tag cloud now has a larger, more prominent area to [...]




24Mar2008

To tag heaven. Ah, yes… tags. The teacher’s pet of Web 2.0. The category list on this blog had become rather unwieldy as I just plugged in new categories whenever I did not feel like putting any thought into organization. I never really liked that method and so when WordPress implemented tags I figured I’d [...]




28Feb2008

Do you have mad ninja designing skillz? Do you love the Firefox web browser (who doesn’t)? Well, now is your chance to win some cool cash and prizes plus worldwide recognition! The Mozilla Store is hosting a T-Shirt Design Contest for the upcoming release of the highly anticipated Firefox 3 browser. If chosen, your design [...]




18Feb2008

ZoneAlarm is hosting the Safe and Secure Sweepstakes where you can win some pretty decent prizes. It is quick and harmless to enter; all you have to give them is your name and email address. The prizes include:

$3,000 Visa® Gift Card
Xbox® & $600 Visa® Gift Card
$50 Visa® Gift Card

Plus they have a pretty fun space [...]




12Feb2008

I apologize ahead of time for this soap box, but I have just read the nth forum posting with a response like this. I have been a fairly flexible software engineer for the majority of my career and this means that I use many different programming languages. What language do you need? If I do [...]




17Jan2008

Wow, I loaded up my page this morning and noticed that I had a slight increase in my FeedBurner subscriber stats. By slight increase of course I mean it jumped from around 70 - 80 to 2,887. Wow, talk about a jump in numbers! I checked my web statistics and there isn’t a huge jump [...]