If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. — Dalai Lama Over the past couple of years I’ve been trying to put into words my thoughts regarding the type of company where I’d like to work. There are companies I would not consider working for — their …
Category Archive: philosophy
Aug 31
Quick thought on programming and distractions
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” — Buddha Too often it’s easy to spend hours days weeks far too long reading blogs and wilfing doing research. Looking for that perfect tool. Looking for a wonderful library. Looking for a new technique. Looking, looking, looking. Almost like Hans Guck-in-die-Luft, …
Oct 08
Semantic Web
I have been doing some site scraping of late. And as a result, I have really come to appreciate the semantic web. It’d make life infinitely easier for grabbing data. Of course there are other, better reasons for using the semantic web, but right now, it’d make a difference in my life.
Sep 02
A language a year
The Pragmatic Programmers have proposed that developers learn a language a year. I agree that it’s very important to keep abreast of changes in IT and that by learning new languages we can keep our minds sharp and bring new ways of doing things into old languages. However, I have to wonder if this learning …
Aug 27
Programming philosophy in the oddest of places
Today’s thought for the day from A Word A Day is: Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) This struck me as being very much the idea behind defensive programming. Because we don’t know what sort of events life will throw at a programme, we need for it …
