At a successful wine bar visit (Noir) after a failed attempt at seeing a Bollywood film in Pasadena, our friend Joel, a math professor, began to explain optimal grid packing in terms of how a grocer stacks oranges. If you have an infinite number of oranges, stacking them as a grocer would is, apparently, optimal. [...]
A few minutes north of the Canadian border en route to Vancouver, I randomly pointed out an IHOP by the highway. Jill: “Wow, I guess it really is international.” Love her.
This guy, when asked if people ever approached him with stunts that he just wouldn’t do, replied “Of course! Some people have crazy ideas!”
Silicon Valley 2004 A friend’s startup started layoffs this week. He was working on the servers until 3:00am the day before his Last Big Meeting. It got me thinking. We worry a lot when things crash. When I took this picture, my thought was “Whew! I’m out of that dangerous dotcom phase of my career.” [...]
“OK, everybody back from vacation?” “Hit the button! Hit the button now!” I’ve been working on the JS UI for the facial recognition and tagging system in Picasaweb since early this year. Hope you like it!
Slides and examples for my second OSCON 2008 talk “CSS for High Performance Javascript UI” are now available.
Just finishing my talk with Andrew Hyde on Startup Weekends. Links to the slides and some resources here: oscon2008.html
I’ve created a minimal Google AppEngine example project for an upcoming workshop. Here it is: http://code.google.com/p/aeshell/
Today, Picasa posted about its “Teddy Bear” Easter Egg. The Picasa 1.0 Easter Egg was a pink pig, this one, in fact, as an homage to Invader Zim, which we watched riotously during late-night debugging sessions.
Eugene and I worked together on the original dojo.gfx project, and he’s gone and written a significant post on functional programming which Javascript developers must read and understand thoroughly if they want to move ahead in their technical abilities.