jan.varwig

Ironically, “I want to be a manager” is just about the worst sentiment a would-be manager could possibly express, because the statement has absolutely nothing to do with leadership. A leader doesn’t fixate on management, which is after all just a bureaucratic framework that attempts to simulate leadership through process and protocol.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/05/not-managing-software-developers.html

also

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/moores-law-is-crap.html

In Ajax vs. REST I wrote about my ideas for a RESTful inplace editor.

Well, after a day playing around with jQuery, I present REST in Place Read the rest of this entry »

A small shop I’ve been writing for for fathers pharmacy was a welcome playground for modeling my domain RESTful. During my ventures, two big issues had me thinking quite hard for a while and there’s still no proper solution available. One of them was a DRY implementation of controllers for nested resources which I’ll describe later, the other one was the outdated inplace editor plugin in Rails.

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