http://www.jimako.com/blog Looking forward, aware of the past... Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:39:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.  He who laughs last thinks slowest.  Those that live by the sword get shot by those who don't.  Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.  The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting ... http://www.jimako.com/blog/2008/01/25/murphys-lesser-known-laws/ Recently, I needed to cancel some leave to get a jump start on some requirements gathering and design work over the holiday season. It wasn't a real problem as I had not made any real plans -- in fact, I had planned specifically not to schedule any activities or tasks ... http://www.jimako.com/blog/2008/01/25/time-to-take-time-to-take-leave/ Dear God: Help me not be a perfectionist. (Did I spell that correctly?) Help me to relax about insignificant details, beginning tomorrow at 7:41:23 a.m. EST. Help me to not try to run everything -- but, if You need some help, please feel free to ask me. Help me to consider people's feelings, ... http://www.jimako.com/blog/2007/10/18/the-perfectionists-prayer/ Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. --- Anonymous http://www.jimako.com/blog/2007/08/03/peace/ Just a few minutes ago, while I was out at lunch, someone left the following comment on the last post. I was about to delete it but thought better of that action. I did not approve it (as it really does not relate to the post at all) but let ... http://www.jimako.com/blog/2007/06/20/sometimes-i-just-despair-at-some-people/ You know, I am getting to the point where I want to do something for myself. After many, many years developing software, I want to develop something where I own the IP. There are two ways to make money with this sort of thing. One is to try to sell software, ... http://www.jimako.com/blog/2007/05/16/what-to-develop/ After a bit of playing around, I found that I needed a few more features than Wordpress provided, so the site was transferred to Drupal. This CMS requires a bit more work to get going, but boy does it have functionality. If you are a web master, you really should ... http://www.jimako.com/blog/2007/05/16/correction-central-district-vic-web-site-now-driven-by-drupal/ I can't believe that it has been over three months since the last post. I've been really busy, and done a few cool things, but did not stop to write about them. I'll fix that over the next few weeks, and take the time to write down some of my ... http://www.jimako.com/blog/2007/03/19/wow-its-been-a-long-time/ I really like Python, but was not aware of this little hidden easter egg. If you fire up the interactive interpreter, and type "import this", you get this wonderful printout to the console: >>> import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple ... http://www.jimako.com/blog/2006/12/05/the-zen-of-python/ I'm a big fan of Ruby, the language. I'm really impressed with the potential of the Rails framework (although to be honest there seems to be a lot of voodoo going on behind the scenes, which is probably just an indication that I have not yet done enough with this framework ... http://www.jimako.com/blog/2006/11/24/whats-the-logical-next-step-in-web-development/