At Railscamp on the weekend, we were surrounded by the beautiful area around Piccadilly. You can see some of the photos on my Flickr stream. One of the things that I noticed though, was the beautiful wetland on the lower end of the property we were on. It had the sign you see below on [...]
I spent the weekend Railscamp amongst a clan of engineers who write Ruby On Rails. It was a really enjoyable time and once again and I’d like to thank Sebastian, Keith and all the other people in the Ruby community who made it possible. During the weekend, we worked on a few various coding projects [...]
I’m at Railscamp, which is fairly exciting. One of the core things about this event is that there’s no Internet access provided. So, I’ll be taking a 2 day break from the blog. Enjoy your weekend and see you on Monday!
The internet is a pretty amazing place. Yesterday, after posting about the West Wing and the idea of Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc, Katy Stevens pinged back with a tweet that she was pretty close to writing slash/fan fiction. I haven’t really investigated fan fiction that much; I used to know someone who read the [...]
I was watching an episode of the West Wing the other day and was reminded of the saying “Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.” The saying essentially means this: Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for “after this, therefore because of this,” is a logical fallacy (of the questionable cause variety) that states, “Since that event [...]
I’ve been thinking lately about the concept of Commanders Intent, and why it’s an important concept to keep in mind when thinking about how you service your customers. None of this is new, but it’s one of those ‘always green’ concepts that I thought bore importance to mention again. Chip and Dan Heath explained the [...]
I’m pretty excited to be heading along to the famous Rails Camp again, which is on this weekend. It’s in Adelaide this time, in Piccadilly. I’m not much of a engineer, but I’m looking forward to once again trying to get my head around the aspects or writing code in Ruby. I haven’t managed to [...]
Intrapreneur – it’s a funny term that pops up from time to time which I’ve always liked. It describe what it sounds like – someone who acts like an entrepreneur within an organisation. More importantly, it continues to be something you find at many progressive organizations with a culture that encourages and supports innovation, creativity [...]
I was having a conversation with Dad the other day about Amazon and why they had been such a successful company (more) recently. Our conversation stemmed from a conversation about companies investing in the right things for future growth, which is why Amazon was brought up – because they were famously unprofitable for many years. [...]
Yesterday’s post talked about solving the little problems you might have in an organisation at the beginning of the work you’d really like to do. It referenced a great thread on Hacker News, which had a huge conversation on it that stretched from how people bill for their services to what the difference is between [...]