I was talking to my friend last night about a bunch of developer/software blogs that i read fairly often now and figured it would work well as a blog post as well (sorry, no humorous videos in this one...). Below is the jest of my email:
Here are a couple posts/blogs that i was talking about. Not sure if you'll get time to read them but i find them interesting.
joel on software - this guy writes really well and, from what i've read so far, he gives me hope that my dream of doing this kind of thing can work.
Coding Horror - Jeff Atwood: another software guy that writes pretty prolifically. He and Joel (the guy above) have a website that they recently released called http://stackoverflow.com/
Ok, so i haven't been paying a lot of attention to this blog for a while, but i thought of a good 'topic' that i think will keep me updating - it's something that i'll be looking at/for anyways, so it should be good. I'm going to try and be my own Digg.com - that is, i'll be posting interesting videos and articles that i find, or my friends find, from all around the web. Generally they'll be funny or insightful videos and/or geeky developer stuff. But i think there'll be enough fun things for anyone.
So to start off i found this interesting interview over at O'Reilly that asks questions to the "project software engineer for the Phoenix Lander Mission". Some pretty interesting stuff. They have to work under some pretty stringent guidelines and ensure that a 700lb object lands on a planet millions of miles away... pretty crazy software/hardware feat!
On a bit of a lighter note, my co-worker Matt sent me a link to this cool website that does a lot of i'm hoping to do in the future - and that is provide lots of entertaining videos and content. So you might want to check out todaysbigthing.com. The one for today is especially cool - stop-motion is a huge internet hot item. Some people are taking the medium to amazing levels. I've embedded the video below in case you want to check out all my other stuff as well:
Continuing on, another co-worker (Clinton), sent me this fun game that grabbed my attention for a while - IndestructoTank A.E. Not a lot to explain, just make sure you hit the ground every now and again or else you run out of gas (not sure how that works, but i didn't make the game!)
Well i think that's enough for my first post on this new topic. I've got a number of videos that i plan on putting up here soon, it's just a matter of time now. Hopefully i can get a couple of people to view the blog and if my friends at work keep coming up with content, then i'll have lots of goodies to share with the masses (or just you 2 people who'll show up randomly - thanks by the way)...
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