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There is so much excellent content in this post that it’s an injustice to just include a bit of it, but here it is anyway. Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook! « The World As Best As I Remember It: “Practice articulating positions you disagree with faithfully and persuasively.  Unless you can do this, you’re implicitly assuming [...]

‘Pitch-free’ group ignites in Charlotte: ‘Fast-paced geek event’ gives speakers five minutes to discuss passions « News from The Mecklenburg Times: “” (Via The Mecklenburg Times.)

A variation on a theme in modern software development.

To me, much of the beauty of contributing to open source is being a member of this kind of community. I enjoyed it so much, I had to write a little bit about it.

The case of the 500-mile email: “‘We can’t send mail more than 500 miles,’ the chairman explained. I choked on my latte. ‘Come again?’ ‘We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles from here,’ he repeated. ‘A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther.’ “

Remember what wonder was like? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

A Letter to My Younger Self: “ Sure, I could go back and tell my teenage self not to give up playing the piano, but would that just leave me in my 30’s dreading another gig in the bar of some hotel waiting for the inevitable tooth-grinding moment some drunk tourist requests ‘Piano Man’ for the [...]

Hello, Charlotte Rubyists! As you may have heard, our organizer and sponsor, Jesse Schoch, has left the Queen City for Northern Virginia early this month. That leaves us with some pretty big shoes to fill if we’d like the group to continue on! I’d like to suggest an organizational meeting for Amelie’s Bakery on Tuesday, [...]

The PhoneGap guys are trying to bring development with web standards to the mobile platform, specifically by leveraging WebKit, which is available and/or used on basically all platforms but the BlackBerry. That seems like a hell of a goal to me.

Anyone who didn’t like this talk must not have had a pulse. The “big idea” of the talk was doing open-source software development on an open-source hardware platform that does something cool! Like flying a freaking blimp to The Flight of the Valkyries!