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Name: David Welton
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5 Sep 2008 »

What If Modern Advertisers Created the Stop Sign?

I found this here:

http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=291

It's particularly entertaining for me, as I started my programming career at an ad agency.

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Syndicated 2008-09-05 13:24:00 (Updated 2008-09-05 13:28:32) from David's Computer Stuff Journal

3 Sep 2008 »

The worst of HR

Since we're considering a move back to the US, I've been idling perusing job ads; a number of which seek "rock star" this and "ninja" that, which sound ludicrous, to put it in polite terms. On the other side of the coin, once an HR department has you in their clutches, you cease to be a person, and are a "resource", as in "we had two resources working on the problem".

Maybe they should just come out and say they are looking for "rock star resources".

Syndicated 2008-09-03 11:59:00 (Updated 2008-09-03 12:04:00) from David's Computer Stuff Journal

2 Sep 2008 »

Potential sweet spot for Erlang web apps

I bumped into this while reading various things:

http://beebole.com/blog/2008/09/02/web-application-on-erlang/

And was interested, because it fits nicely with a half-formed idea of my own: Erlang is never going to be a nice language for doing HTML templates, but getting JSON into and out of it is pretty easy, so it could potentially work very well where your application is divided between Javascript for all the template/rendering/frontend duties, and Erlang on the server, with something like Mnesia, Couchdb or Postgres as the data store. That sort of application wasn't really possible several years ago, but with the right target audience, you could probably get away with doing an app that requires Javascript to function these days.

Syndicated 2008-09-02 20:26:00 (Updated 2008-09-02 20:30:54) from David's Computer Stuff Journal

2 Sep 2008 »

Babies, Parents and Home Offices - Advice?

I'm back to working at home after completing a recent contract, much faster than the client expected, I'm proud to say, as I was able to leverage some open source software to do exactly what they needed.

While I love being able to see Helen and Ilenia more during the day, it also brings up that old question of Adam Smith's: the division of labor. It's pretty difficult to concentrate at all with a baby in the house, despite having an office with a door. When she's noisy, she's really noisy, and there's nothing like the yowl of an unhappy baby to get a parent's attention, even if he's not the one currently taking care of her. Also, perhaps most importantly: she's adorable and full of smiles for me, and loves to play... as do I, certainly more so than working! Since she won't take a bottle yet (well, I did succeed once, but it's not easily repeatable), my wife is still the one Helen's primarily attached to, but even so, needs some time when I take care of the baby so she can do her stuff too.

I'm curious what sorts of arrangements other people have worked out? Fortunately, one option would simply be to spend the time with Ilenia and Helen and forget about work for the most part, but that's pretty extreme. It's not as if I don't have computer time, but the biggest problem is the constant interruptions, which make it difficult to do more than read and write a little bit. Serious coding requiring concentration is pretty much only for late at night or early mornings these days.

Syndicated 2008-09-02 18:00:00 (Updated 2008-09-02 18:29:07) from David's Computer Stuff Journal

31 Aug 2008 »

Vienna, Austria

If all goes according to plan, Helen, Ilenia and I will be in Vienna, Austria sometime in the next week or two, to register our daughter as a US citizen. As always, we're interested in meeting anyone local for alcohol/food/coffee/whatever, within the limits of our time there. Send email with a mobile number if you're interested in meeting up at some point.

I'm not exactly a frequent traveler, but Ilenia and I both really enjoy meeting people when we go places, so I signed up for this to see if it helps put me in contact with people, either in places I go, or people visiting Innsbruck:

http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/davidnwelton

Syndicated 2008-08-31 10:52:00 (Updated 2008-08-31 11:03:50) from David's Computer Stuff Journal

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