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January 28, 2005
[Design Patterns] Design Pattern Joke
If you’re looking for a good old fashioned geek chuckle and some food for thought in regards to over-engineering check out this post on SlashDot:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33602&cid=3636102
Comment Highlights:
"programmers being so smart that they practically obfuscate the code with "good" design" -Evil Pete
"over-abstracting and over-design-pattern-ing is a real problem, even though those aren't real words" -JamieF
"you're wishing you'd abstracted just a little bit more at the outset.", "the boss is always going to ask for something that you didn't expect. twice." -spongman
"There are a number of differences between programming and software engineering. This has been one of them." -Pseudonym
"Too much of a good thing might not end up also being a good thing?!" -Arrgh
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at 07:08 PM | Comments (280)
January 26, 2005
[Tools] Killer HTTP Monitor / Throttle Control
Throw out your Netconnection debugger! If you’re looking for a way to test and debug all your http request and track exactly what’s coming in and going out of your browser and applications (cookies, xml, remoting calls, redirects, caching, etc) look no further then Charles:
Feature Highlights:
HTTP Monitor
Every request and response is recorded from your browser, applications and even Flash
Bandwidth Throttle Control
Simulates various download speeds
Blacklist
Blocks specified sites / applications from making request (such as spyware)
For a complete list of features check out:
http://www.xk72.com/charles/features.html
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at 06:28 AM | Comments (436)
January 18, 2005
[Job Op] Odopod Designers / Developers
Odopod is hiring. Their San Francisco studio is busy and needs talented people ASAP!!
They're looking for both Senior Designers & Advanced ActionScripters to work on a wide range of projects. People who can play both roles are even better. Some of their clients include Nike, Red Bull, Target, Yahoo! and Kodak.
Send inquiries to: work@odopod.com with links to work examples and complete contact information. Also, you must live in San Francisco or be planning to move there. Please no phone calls.
Good Luck and let them know where you saw the post!
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at 08:09 PM | Comments (516)