Consumption Junction
Let’s start with a basic equation:
3 * 2000 = 1 * 6000.
We agree? Great. Let’s move on …
European Summer Lunacy
Janssen Pharmaceutica is based in Beerse, Belgium. Each year, throughout an entire summer month, the production and research division is shut down; it’s crickets from conveyors to labs. The original reason was probably due to regular maintenance; the story as of my last stay in 2000 was due solely to it being vacation time.
Network abuse
Spent the last days filling holes in my online profile. It’s ironic, I always say people should eat their own dog food when I’m guilty on all counts myself.
Looking for a place to happen.
I’ve been a jack of all trades since 1996. The choice at the start of my career was simple: generalize or specialize. I generalized out of curiosity and boredom prevention. Now I wonder, is that approach a mistake? Is the question of generalizing or specializing still relevant? A friend of mine (Rod) said it perfectly: “People with broad interests are rarely successful.“
Android Inventor is RAD.
The announcement that Google was releasing a “no skills needed” tool set for creating Android applications sent shivers down my spine. Hearing it was MIT material caused a small seizure. It’s scary for us developers to find out that our introverted, caveman empires are made of straw. After all, saying you can program Android applications now means you have the same basic qualifications as Keyboard Cat.
On Sam I Am
I love Dr. Seuss. I suppose that’s a byproduct of every North American childhood. Only recently, however, have I discovered how absolutely brilliant the man was. Nearly every line of every passage in every book can be mapped to everyday life. This random thought is about Green Eggs and Ham; advice on how it can be used in a business context. It’s actually the third version. The first was was too liberal. The second too conservative. This one is Green.
Bootstrapping a Django-with-Mongo project. A Layman’s guide.
Django and Mongo are a great combination for rapid prototyping. I’ve been using these two technologies for a while and thought I would share my notes on how to bootstrap a new project. I wasn’t able to find a single walk-through that covered the various bumps-in-the-road that I was running over; hence this post. The process that follows was written for Ubuntu 10.04 (amd64) but should translate to other flavors.
Joseph Gysels
I met Jo in the summer of 2001 at the Rejean Café in Leuven. Although we were drunk so it could have also easily been 2002. Today would have been Jo’s 56th birthday. He died February 24, 2004. To the smartest, most sympathetic yet simultaneously frustrating person I’ve ever had the privilege to call my friend,
