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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Problogger: Speed Posting
Darren Rowse, the Problogger is conducting a nice little exercise in “Speed Posting” where he takes a question from Twitter, and answers it in a post. The catch is he has to write the response in 3 minutes or less. … Continue reading
Daily Photo (2008-04-26)
About to leave for a friends wedding. (The munchkin sneaked into the photo)
Daily Photo (2008-04-25)
At the office…
Comment Issues
I was informed this morning that some folks were having issues with commenting on my blog. Some even thought that comments were disabled. This is probably due to the fact that I am using Disqus to handle the comments on … Continue reading
Consulting Consultants: Why Specialization Can Hurt
Sure, specializing looks like a great road to go down especially on a technology that doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere soon. However, for the sake of this argument lets consider the Microsoft .Net product stack. How many .Net developers do you know? How many really good ones do you know? If I was to venture a guess, I’d say you know a lot of .Net developers. This makes the .Net developer a commodity of sorts. The more people that can do what you do, the worse off you are. Especially if those other folks can do it better than you. Continue reading
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Digg Loses the News, AllTop Takes Over
I don’t know about anyone else out there, but lately I find myself using Digg less and AllTop more. It just seems that I find more real news and commentary on AllTop than I do on Digg these days. Continue reading →