Tim’s Blog
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On Terminology
I should have written this a long time ago. One of the most universal lessons I’ve learned as a consultant is to be careful with terminology and jargon. Context, industry, experience all play a factor in how people will interpret what you say. At one client in particular, it got so bad that I regularly…
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Chad Fowler’s Keynote
Chad Fowler’s keynote at Codemash was excellent, and well timed to get me through the week. While I have really enjoyed my time there, and learned a lot the last 2 year’s attending, I run into a lot of attitudes that are hard for me to handle. Simply put, I work in multiple dev communities…
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Pre-Codemash 2011 Thoughts
I’m looking forward to Codemash this year. Thanks again to my work for sending me. Founders like Jeff Blankenburg do a great job putting this conference together. Last year, I concentrated on TDD/BDD, Silverlight, ORM, Ruby sessions with a few others thrown in for fun. This year, I’m still going through the schedule. I’d like…
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Christmas to Myself
Archer: Season 1 comes out this week! I watched the entire season on Netflix three times this fall…
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Remote Time Capsule Logging With Snow Leopard
There is a field for a remote IP when configuring the logging of a time capsule. It is intended to have the device log to a Mac on your LAN, so you can view the logs via the console program. There is some work on the other end to let snow leopard listen to those…
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