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Scott Porad writes about why software is hard:

Last week was the end of my position at Nelson Cash. After working with the team there for a year, I was able to see them grow from 4 people meeting up in coffee shops, to 10 people moving into a new studio with custom desks. It was a privilege…

This past week I was working on a Ruby on Rails project where I needed to list out a lot of attributes of an object. The difficult part came in the fact that I didn't want to display the attribute if it wasn't set or was 0.

My mindset on how to use and develop in jQuery has just changed dramatically. I watched Yehuda Katz's video on Evented Programming. Basically the idea he presents boils down to asking:

I don't have much to add to this discussion right now, but I just wanting to point out that the next two years is going to be pretty exciting for the web development community. I think some great frameworks and design patterns will be built around CSS, JS, and API's…

Cringely raises an important point regarding student motivation and its effect on learning. He quotes a reader:

From an article about David Oglivy and his habits as a copywriter.