grant watson - software engineer

Everything I needed to know, I learned in the 1600s. | 43 Folders
(tags: online books literature philosophy to-read personalgrowth)

Coding Horror: Who Wrote This Crap?
“your program (n): a maze of non-sequiturs littered with clever-clever tricks and irrelevant comments. … my program (n): a gem of algorithmic precision, offering the most sublime balance between compact, efficient coding [...]

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Facebook Pages: A First Look at Facebook Applications Reviews, Facebook Widgets, Facebook News
“Business, bands, etc. can now set up a Facebook Pages page. This is really a pretty solid experience and bug free right out of the gate. This is an easy way to get your brand onto facebook. The features are fairly robust and [...]

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Video: Matthieu Ricard on Finding Happiness Through Mind Training | PickTheBrain
“Buddhist monk, Matthieu Richard (the Dalai Lama’s righthand man), has a fascinating lecture on TED about the nature of happiness and how happiness can be found through mind training.”
(tags: happiness meditation video)

Top 5 Free Tools to Monitor Your Sites Uptime
“These website uptime monitors check the [...]

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5 Ways to Work on Yourself at Work | PickTheBrain
“Be Self-Disciplined, Implement a Productivity System, Develop Your Interpersonal and Networking Skills, Commit to Excellence, Exercise Your Brain”
(tags: work personalgrowth performance productivity gtd relationships)

OpenSocial - Google Code
“OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can [...]

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Coding Horror: The F5 Key Is Not a Build Process
“This points us to one of the most important health metrics on a software development project. How long does it take for you to get a new team member working productively on your project? If the answer is more than one day, you have a problem. [...]

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BBC NEWS | Technology | PC stripper helps spam to spread
“The novel system for getting round Captchas uses images of a woman called “melissa” who invites victims to decipher the scrambled text. Entering the correct text produces another image and another chunk of scrambled text.”
(tags: internet security spam hacks)

blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of [...]

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