Archive for December, 2007
Losing Weight
Losing Weight
Disclaimer: I am not a nutrition expert. I am not a doctor. I can relate my flawed understandings of the world, but it is up to you to confirm them with someone who really is a doctor or a nutrition specialist. They might say I was sort of on the [...]
Blog Post Writing Workflow
07-12-17 Writing Workflow
When writing a blog post, my system (nascent as it is) uses several interesting technologies. This blog posting will discuss what I am using today, why I chose this particular technology stack, and what works / doesn’t work about it.
Updated 2007-12-20: Additional notes appended to the Scrivener and Graphics sections.
Optimizing Performance Across All Levels
It is a well-accepted fact that early optimization is the root of all evil. Early optimization requires extra, often unjustifiable, work. Early optimization tends to decrease the maintainability of code.
At the same time, there is a violently vocal crowd decrying “bolt-on” approaches to performance. Â Performance must be designed in from the start, not [...]
Rent or Own
When do I want to “rent” something, and when do I want to “own” it?First, let’s define those terms for the purpose of this discussion, as they’ve been redefined from their accepted meaning recently. I’ll take the current corporate definitions as the minimal acceptable definitions:
To Rent: To purchase the right to view or [...]
