Star Wars

I think there are a few things that every parent hopes to be able to share with their children. It could be your love of a sport team. I have been successful in teaching (brainwashing) my children to love the Pittsburgh Steelers.

As my kids have gotten older, I was looking forward to the day when they were old enough to experience Star Wars. I still remember sitting inside the theater at 6 years old and experiencing the opening scene of Star Wars. It was an amazing experience as a 6 year old. I had never seen anything like it.

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How I lost 30lbs and kept it off

Over the last year and a half I have focused on improving my health. I can't say I was significantly over weight, but each year it was a little too easy to add a pound or two. Over the last 10 years my weight has bounce around, anywhere from 185 to 210, at 5' 9".

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Twitter is a Corporate API →

Dave Winer has some interesting thoughts on the reality of attaching your future to an API like Twitter's. It has always surprised me the number of applications that were being build completely tied to a companies future that was not yet established.

Twitter had been telling developers, for years, that they should develop all kinds of clients. That was when Twitter was just a website and had no clients of its own.

Smart developers will not just conclude that Twitter is unsafe to build on, but also any company that is operating in the Twitter model. If they are running a website, and trying to attract a lot of users, and are going in the direction of advertising, you'd be a fool to think they won't do the same as Twitter has.

Of course Twitter is not alone here, they just happen to be the a recent big organization that changed their direction regarding APIs. Nothing new, we should not act so surprised.

Working with the Medium

Software engineering is a relatively new engineering discipline. I tend to think that software development is closer to a practice than an engineering discipline. Just like medicine and law, the industry is ever changing and evolving, and sometimes we don't know what we are doing. The process around software development can come in many forms, Waterfall, CMMI, Scrum, Lean, etc.

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Fear, The Enemy of Shipping

Shipping, provides clarity. What ever it is you are working on it does not really exist until you ship it. It could be a piece of software, a photograph, an paper, or an idea. It does not really exist or really matter to anyone until you release it.

This is what we each strive for, to share our ideas, our art, our work. But what keeps us from shipping? What did you not ship today? What are you holding on to?

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