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specialization of programming languages

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

In my daily blog-roll, I came across this posting by Griffin Caprio on Domain Specific Languages = The Long Tail of Programming Languages? ( Part 2 ). Griffin gives a good analogy for software engineers and their specialization of programming languages compared to the music industry where artists specialize in styles/genres to all produce very different, but great things.

I relate to this completely — as someone who has always called themself a “software engineer” when the need arises, I couldn’t agree more with his assessment of choosing the right tools and specializing when needed.

As much as I hate to admit it, a teacher at Georgia Tech, the revered (and often loathed) professor who had the hardest (read: weed-out) class, stressed that the more tools you have in your programming toolbelt, the more specialized and exact the tools, the better software developer/engineer you’ll be. I agree.

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Vote for Ted Gore for President

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Well, you can’t actually vote for Ted Gore for president, but what you can do is go check out his submission to the Global Student Animation Awards, and vote for (rate) his entry:  Nike ID Conception in the Audience Choice Award for Motion Design.

Then, one day when he runs for president, vote for him then, too.

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in honor of the spaceship

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Spaceship Discovery returned home today, and in honor of that, I’m wearing my vintage Columbia Space Shuttle 3/4 t-shirt. I am so indie-hip that it hurts sometimes. It really does.

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What You Get for the Money Episode 322

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Thanks to Rez and Omar for their sheer l33tness in having a mythtv-recorded, transcoded, ipod video ready format movie of the entire episode including all 15 minutes of Jodi, Jameson, and my fame ready for bittorrent downloading.

All that nonsense above means that you can watch it here. Thanks guys!

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Our 15 Minutes of Fame

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

As you might recall, I posted a while back about HGTV filming our place for their show, “What You Get For the Money.”

Well, we just got a call last week, and our segment will air on the newest episode — Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 10:30 pm on HGTV.

Fire up your Tivos (and mythTV boxen)!

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