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I Don’t Know

by chad on Jan 15, 2011 • No Comments
I had the pleasure of watching Scott Chacon keynote at CodeMash this week. He spoke about how Github “manages” its development team and product development. I enjoyed the talk, and encourage you to download his slides if you weren’t...
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Dead-End Jobs: Are You Suffering From Stockholm Syndrome?

by chad on Dec 29, 2010 • No Comments
Have you heard of Stockholm Syndrome? It’s a name given to the condition wherein hostages develop positive feelings toward their captors despite being held in negative, unfavorable and even life-threatening conditions. Victims of Stockh...
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23 travel tips to make long trips more enjoyable

by chad on Sep 10, 2010 • No Comments
I travel a lot. Not the most of anyone I know, but enough to have found myself inconvenienced plenty of times and to have learned ways to make life more comfortable on the road. Here are a few tips that I’ve collected over...
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Change of Status

by Igor Minar on Aug 8, 2010 • No Comments
$ sqlplus -s SQL> connect hr@oracle.com/hr SQL> UPDATE employees SET current = false WHERE email = "Igor.Minar@oracle.com"; SQL> COMMIT; SQL> disconnect SQL> exit $ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "firstName":"Igor", "la...
Igor Minar / Publishers

Change of Status

by Igor Minar on Aug 8, 2010 • No Comments
$ sqlplus -s SQL> connect hr@oracle.com/hr SQL> UPDATE employees SET current = false WHERE email = "Igor.Minar@oracle.com"; SQL> COMMIT; SQL> disconnect SQL> exit $ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "firstName":"Igor", "la...
Igor Minar / Publishers

Thanks for All the Fish

by Igor Minar on Aug 3, 2010 • No Comments
Hi guys, Most of you don't know, but today is the 3rd birthday of wikis.sun.com. In 2007 a bunch of us decided that it was worth it to boldly go where no man has gone before and on August 3, 2007 we launched wikis.sun.com. At that time very few corpo...
Igor Minar / Publishers

Thanks for All the Fish

by Igor Minar on Aug 3, 2010 • No Comments
Hi guys, Most of you don't know, but today is the 3rd birthday of wikis.sun.com. In 2007 a bunch of us decided that it was worth it to boldly go where no man has gone before and on August 3, 2007 we launched wikis.sun.com. At that time very few corpo...
Chad Fowler / Publishers

My Friend John was Shot – Please Help

by chad on Nov 4, 2009 • No Comments

Click here to lend your support to: Help John recover and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !

My friend and fellow Rails developer John Lannon, lead developer at http://resonantvibes.com, was mugged last night while picking up dinner for his wife. He didn’t have anything on him to give to the robbers and...

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Toward an Agile Career Development Methodology

by chad on Sep 4, 2009 • No Comments

Since finishing The Passionate Programmer I’ve been putting a lot of thought into how to package the advice from the book into something more structured, serial, and prescriptive.

The Amazon reviews for the book are almost all glowingly positive with the occasional piece of constructive criticism. Here’s one such excerpt from an otherwise positive review...

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Upcoming Travel and Speaking Engagements

by chad on Aug 4, 2009 • 1 Comment
I gave myself a little break this spring and early summer, but the pace is about to pick up again. The rest of the year is looking pretty busy. Here’s what the rest of this year looks like so far. If you’re...
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How Learning a Second Language Changed My Life

by chad on Aug 2, 2009 • 1 Comment

There’s an old joke I heard in India which goes something like this:

What do you call a person who speaks many languages? Multilingual

What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual

What do you call a person who speaks one language? American

Sad, but usually true. I got fairly deep into my adult life without...

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Productivity tip: Let Derek Sivers Take Notes for You

by chad on Jul 1, 2009 • No Comments

I just finished reading the inspiring The E-Myth Revisited, which like my own first book My Job Went to India suffers from an incredibly bad name.

This is definitely one of the most practically useful and potentially career-changing business books I’ve read. As I started getting toward the end, I realized that I should...

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