- Sybil Myoshin Taylor
My good friend Sybil died today, a few months after she found out she had leukemia. She was about 80, I think, and she'd been jetting around Germany last fall when she started tiring more easily usual. She came home, got her diagnosis, fought [ ... ]
- Career Fairs, Part 2: How Can Startups Get Noticed?
I wrote the other day about what I think Comp Sci majors are doing wrong at career fairs and how they should be distinguishing themselves from their peers. There's a fun debate in the comments about whether I gave the right advice. [ ... ]
- So You're Coming to a Career Fair
Computer science students need to learn how to distinguish themselves.
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- Third Normal Form and Ultimate Truth
I have an opinion: most people learned about relational databases as if RDBMSes were designed to store the ultimate truth about some data. They figured that once the schema had been properly diagrammed and normalized, then they could [ ... ]
- Philly MongoDB User Group: Python, MongoDB, and Asynchronous Web Frameworks
Photo (C) Parent5446 I'll be recapping last week's talk on Python, MongoDB, and Asynchronous Web Frameworks this Thursday at 7pm, in Philadelphia, at the Philly MongoDB User Group's inaugural meetup. We'll be at the Devnuts office, at [ ... ]
- Slides from my talk on asynchronous web frameworks, Python, and MongoDB
Here's the slides for the talk I gave at the NYC Python Meetup tonight, on asynchronous web frameworks, Python, and MongoDB. Direct link. Embedded: Python, async web frameworks, and MongoDB View more PowerPoint from emptysquare
- Andrea Bruce, "Uncovering the Sadness of Young Deaths"
Photo: Andrea Bruce A photo essay by Andrea Bruce for the NY Times, on infant deaths in Afghanistan. The chiaroscuro lighting she uses (or finds naturally, in huts with small windows) links her to Renaissance religious painters like [ ... ]
- This Thursday: a talk on Python, MongoDB, and asynchronous web frameworks
This Thursday in NYC I'm talking about Python, MongoDB, and asynchronous web frameworks at a meetup called For the Love of Python: Wine tasting, Red velvet cupcakes, and Tech Talks. The talk is a work in progress. To be strictly accurate, I [ ... ]
- Photos of Old Animals
The Times the other day linked to an excellent photo project, Isa Leshko's "Elderly Animals". The Times says, Ms. Leshko was inspired to carry out her project after spending a year caring for her mother, who has Alzheimer’s disease [ ... ]