“Why aren’t more of us using YAML with Java and Groovy?” From SnakeYAML and Groovy, my latest post on Inside the Machine.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George
Santayana, (c/o Wikipedia) Sometimes I want to remember the …

From the Exploration chapter of Brain Rules: Researchers have shown that some regions of the adult brain stay as
malleable as a baby’s brain, …

Seth Godin’s recent post entitled Make a decision reminded me of a quote from
Psycho-Cybernetics that I wrote about a little while ago. I think …

Neal Ford says Twitter Matters. I disagree. The problem with Twitter is that it’s not censored in any way, so you get a
lot of noise. In order …

Yesterday I was trying to determine which version(s) of the iPhone SDK I had
installed so I could decide whether to download the newest version of …

From this post on Joel
Spolsky’s blog: Zawinski didn’t do many unit tests. They “sound great in principle. Given a
leisurely …

“In Groovy, you can create mocks & stubs using native language features, so
you can forget about learning a mock framework.” From Who …

I recently started reading Brain Rules, and one thing I’ve learned is that exercise boosts brain
power in addition to a host of other things. …

Before you automate something, learn to do it manually.