Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'simplicity'

"One of the general design directions for Java over the last several years has been that we had really focused on the extremely high end." - indeed, though i don't think 'tools' is the perfect answer to that problem as Gosling contends. ultimately, it's a

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january 2006 by sogrady

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Log for January, 2006

"What does the business or project do, for whom, in what context?" - interesting thinking, as always, from Havoc

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january 2006 by sogrady

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Mike Kruckenberg: Is MySQL Simple or Complex (or both)?

this is, more or less, the question i asked of Marten Mickos at the Zend Conf

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december 2005 by sogrady

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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Building RESTful Applications with Indigo

"Anyway, the point is that there is more than one way to build services on the Web...We at Microsoft now understand this, I hope eventually the rest of the industry does as well." - excellent news from Dare. be good to see one of the major vendors take th

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december 2005 by sogrady

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developerWorks : Blogs : James Snell

Snell on Ruby v Java; interesting thoughts

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december 2005 by sogrady

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[Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

Linus kills GNOME - at least somewhat unfairly, in my view (via multiple)

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december 2005 by sogrady

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Rails and Django meets in Chicago (Loud Thinking)

Hansson's take on the Rails/Django meetup in Chitown. would that i could have gone

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december 2005 by sogrady

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ACM Queue - Learning from THE WEB - The Web has taught us many lessons about distributed computing, but some of the most important ones have yet to fully take hold.

great summary of some of Bosworth's previous thoughts

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november 2005 by sogrady

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Google Thinks Small - Forbes.com

more on the simplicity, KISS meme from Google

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november 2005 by sogrady

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Zimbra - Blog

go figure - an enterprise company finds a use for REST - FINALLY :) - great stuff, guys (via Mark)

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november 2005 by sogrady

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The Two Things

great anecdote about simplifying a given discipline down to two essential elements (via Dave)

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november 2005 by sogrady

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Log for November, 2005

good post on why the iPod succeeds from Havoc: simplicity

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november 2005 by sogrady

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Sam Ruby: It Just Works

amen sir, amen. let's hear it for apt-get (or Portage, in my case)

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november 2005 by sogrady

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The Zen of Microformats [@lesscode.org]

great breakdown on Microformats from Ryan

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october 2005 by sogrady

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linux-isnt-simple

for me this is about context; some of Christopher's criticisms of Linux are spot on, but for me it comes down to - is Linux more simple and focused than, say, Windows Vista or not? i say it definitely is

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october 2005 by sogrady

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jole’s place ‽ Et tilbageblik

anybody speak Danish? i think this is a good review of my talk, but can't tell

zend conference simplicity
october 2005 by sogrady

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Mechanism Alley ‽ Blog Archive ‽ Zend Conference Notes: Day Three

Manley's wasn't blown away by my talk, and FYI there were no speakers notes included

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october 2005 by sogrady

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PHP to Sleep Past Noon This Weekend

i don't know if PHP is going to sleep past noon this week, but i sure will be ;) - anyhow, appreciate the "brilliantly simple" description of my slides, even if i can't quite see it myself

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october 2005 by sogrady

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Computerworld | Desktop apps coming to the Web: Google

some interesting commentary on Google and its desktop efforts

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october 2005 by sogrady

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Followup/Distraction (Ftrain.com)

wow - talk about taking extreme measures to avoid distraction

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october 2005 by sogrady

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Less as a competitive advantage: My 10 minutes at Web 2.0 - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

simplicity and less code anyone?

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october 2005 by sogrady

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Choose a single layer of cleverness (Loud Thinking)

this sounds very like what Adam discussed at the MySQL users conference; keep the biz logic out of the DB

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september 2005 by sogrady

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Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger

i buy Scoble's argument here for the most part - the point clearly isn't that Windows is broken - but the question is why it took the Longhorn "reset" for MS to figure out that monolithic development isn't the answer

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september 2005 by sogrady

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Bill Gates: less code is only metric [@lesscode.org]

some great commentary in this lesscode thread

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september 2005 by sogrady

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Can software have opinions? (Loud Thinking)

reminds me of my mantra - "tell people what you don't do, as well as what you do"

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august 2005 by sogrady

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The Portland birthday celebration for Rails (Loud Thinking)

"I got to sign a good handful of those with a Less Software tagline"

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august 2005 by sogrady

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Firefox: Doing it for love - Printer friendly - ZDNet UK Insight

"Blake [Ross, the creator of Firefox] says that he hopes with every release of Firefox, we can take away a feature. His motto is to simplify."

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july 2005 by sogrady

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Mini-Microsoft: Recent Random Bits

"Cut the ropes with other external teams that represent "feature synergy" and focus on shipping as much fantastic code as you can possible bang out. We need to be a swift reacting armada, not some bizarrely entangled super-tanker manifestation."

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june 2005 by sogrady

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NewsForge | Linus compares Linux and BSDs

"I often find black-and-white people a bit stupid, truth be told" - amen, sir, amen

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june 2005 by sogrady

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Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger

totally agree: small is the new big

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june 2005 by sogrady

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Caterina.net:

quoting Buckminster Fuller on specialization