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Most people who know me know how much I love my dog, Eowyn. She’s been my constant companion for the past two years. She got me out of a bad relationship, taught me how to love another unconditionally, and gave me the confidence, support, and company I needed to mature …
JD Roth over at the Get Rich Slowly Blog published a guest article I wrote — “The Lazy Man’s Guide to Groceries on a Budget.”
I was quoted in an article about work I did while working at Texas A&M University Athletics on their high-availability web infrastructure.
This is required reading for anyone who’s even thinking of offshoring some programming work. However, it’s not the entire story.
I’ve managed several offshore teams from here in the states for clients. There’s two ways the project can go: You can hire someone like me who speaks english and ‘programmer’, has enough of a business mindset to understand your business processes (because why would you write a program that implement’s someone else’s idea of how your business runs?) and has enough of a technical mindset to lay down the technical specifications. This is what the article above recommends. There’s more ways to do it … read on if you’d like to see a discussion of them.
My bestest friend in the whole wide world, Danielle Corsetto, has released her first anthology of her webcomic Girls With Slingshots.
Go buy it. That’s an order.
If you’d like a job working for Texas A&M University, there are several excellent jobs open at the moment. My department is seeking a Microcomputer Specialist, my old position in Athletics is open, and a MS-SQL DBA job in Admissions & Records that I turned down has bumped up it’s
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For those in the know, I used to work for Texas A&M Athletics. These days, I work for The VP for Research Department at Texas A&M. My old job focused mainly on web development, especially web frameworks. My new job is going to focus almost exclusively on linux admin type …
Well, this answers my concerns about how long Mint will stick around. Congrats to the Mint team!
Kottke talked today about a video on Serious Eats featuring Mario Batali on How to Sauce Pasta.
I disagree that this is the only way to sauce pasta, though. The sauce depends on the goal of the sauce. In the case of Mario’s sauce, it’s to feature and accent the pasta. But there’s some sauces, like my family’s spaghetti sauce, that could be featured by themselves and stand up on their own merits — and the pasta simply serves as a base, much like a rice or couscous bed would.
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