opencomponentry

For a long time now I’ve very badly wanted to work for the goog, but my physical location(washington d.c.) has pretty much elminated that possibility. The recruiters have made it very clear that working for google means moving to CA. It’s such torture looking around at work in this area and hearing [...]

Haha. Of course it’s not the same thing, what’s your point jesse?
Oh nothing, nothing at all. It’s just that there seems to be a disturbing trend among software developers in thinking that knowledge of good software design has anything at all to do with knowledge of interface design. It’s more than disturbing [...]

I did my first solo presentation on some of the new Tapestry 4.1 ajax features this Wednesday for the event at http://www.phillyemergingtech.com/.
To make sure everyone has the benefit of being able to point and laugh at things I’ve put up the associated slides / demo / source for your browsing pleasure. Enjoy it while you [...]

My friend Gabe has finally gotten around to open sourcing his very cool Flickr based screensaver called slickr. If you have windows you really must install this thing at least once.

As might be inferred from the name - this particular screensaver uses the Flickr web service api to fetch images for displaying on your monitor. [...]

Horrible thing to do I know, but this really very nearly brought me to tears laughing.
It wasn’t so much the literal pictures as it was the original reddit link name of “how to decorate your apartment so you never ever get laid ” and then looking at our proud decorator defiantly looking back as if [...]