Let’s cut to the chase and skip the history and origin of the Manbag and get to the point.
We carry a lot of shit around with us everyday. At a minimum I have a mobile phone, my wallet and car/house keys which can all fit in my pants pockets. Now add in my glasses, a [...]
Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
August 28th, 2007
Totally Obsessed With GTD, Todo List and Any Other Productivity Software.
2 Comments, Productivity, Rants, by jay.Seriously over the past few months I have been so obsessed with finding the perfect GTD/Todo System that I have become less productive. I reached a point that I was downloading the same desktop system or signing up on the same site a few times a week. It’s crazy. I scower the [...]
September 1st, 2006
The Ajax Experience Conference aka The Ajax Extortion Conference
Comments Off, AJAX, Rants, Web2.0, by jay.For about 5 seconds I was excited about The Ajax Experience Conference, not because it’s about Ajax but because it’s in Boston, until I saw the price to attend.
$1,250 If you pre-register before Sept 26.
$1,450 After that.
$1,250!! $1,450!!
For a conference!?
It’s not like this is TechED or the Hooters Waitress convention. [...]
August 23rd, 2006
Web2.0 from a Developer/Blogger Perspective
Comments Off, General, Rants, Web2.0, by jay.Like anything else once a good idea gets out into the public people will fall over themselves trying to mimic what’s already been done. Remember back in the 80’s when video shops were poping up on every street corner. And remember how the shelves were jammed with bad (cheesey) apocalypse movies. Well [...]
At some point durring the day I derailed my thought process and ended up on amazon looking for books on Atom – (dev site: Atom or Wikipedia: Atom).
Essentially Atom is the next version of RSS and I’m just trying to see what’s ahead in technology.
The day started off with me trying to creat a Ajaxified version of Wired’s (Issue 14.09) “Build a Web 2.0 Startup!” from buzzwords article. The gist of it is that you grab some key words from 4 list lists: Market, Hyped Tech, Service and Architecture and then apply them to this sentence:
It’s a [...]
Most articles and posts about the “C# vs VB.NET” argument conclude that the two languages are equal and only differ slightly. Although I agree with this I think the real difference is not the syntax of these languages but the way they are implemented. After 9 months of using VB.NET (on someone eles’s [...]
