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Testing

jsled — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 03:11:44 +0000

Testing.

This is primarily a test in order to get some content, such that I can…

rebuild site
fetch page
hack CSS
create stylesheet for basic site.

It just needs to NOT be fugly.

reflection, rating and ‘regating

jsled — Mon, 26 May 2003 07:00:00 +0000

I’ve continued to work pretty hard, but it looks like the initial burden of creating a 1.0 system is done. Now we’re in that wonderful time of reflection, rating, and looking forward to the future.

reflection

There are plenty of things that go wrong when creating a software system. Testing being the biggest failure — without a major internal impetus to TestFirst. We’ve been encouraged to start doing TestFirst Development in our next milestone, and I’m jumping on the bandwagon. It seems tailored to fast-paced, [short-attention span], younger developers … but as one of those, I welcome the lessons to be learned.

rating

We just went through our first-quarter engineering assessment. I scored well. Some of the best developers I’ve met didn’t. It’s kinda f’ed up.

[agg]regating

I’ve started playing with NewsMonster over this holiday weekend. It’s a standalone-java site-aggregator engine with a Mozilla-based front-end. I’ve set up a bunch of feeds in it, and hopefully it’ll break me from having Slashdork as my consistently-open browser window… it’s gotten me to want to blog more [as evidenced by this post], but perhaps more importantly to make the BlogPlugin I’ve talked about for a while.

working hard

jsled — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 07:00:00 +0000

I’ve been working quite hard, and a bit of a toll is being incurred. But mostly on cool new projects that I keep thinking up. There’s something about hard creative work that fuels other creative impulses. As I’m ” such a geek”, as Mary said the other day, they’re mostly technical, but some not. I hope in the coming months to have some time to outlay them here and into the wider world.

One day, too, I’ll be a good programmer. Due to test-first practices and making refactoring my bitch, it hasn’t slowed others on the project down too much … but one day I’ll be able to get the DesignThatIsNowClear on the first go-round, rather than the third. Here’s to the future.

SF

jsled — Sat, 01 Mar 2003 07:00:00 +0000

Quote of the Day: “Yup, nothing says “protagonist” like going into a berserker rage over pork chops.”

So, we’ve moved into San Francisco. The City. Ah. Yeah. And freaky people have kids. Oh, the humanity.

lots of fun

jsled — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 07:00:00 +0000

Awesome video for some new J5 song — The Format —

Startups rule. It’s very hard to find a place where the work is so exciting, you know the whole company, and every day, hour and minute of your efforts has a tangible effect on others. The only problem is that every day, hour and minute of your efforts has a tangible effect on others. When you’re young and stupid, you think that you can’t and shouldn’t stop. It doesn’t quite help that you may totally enjoy what you’re doing, day-to-day, and not want to leave … because that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. Especially when you have to move to San Francisco and stuff.

Oh well.

It is a lot of fun.