Just another person trying to be a developer
- Twitter Updates for 2008-05-20
- Setting up -lots- wordpress blogs at the office with @joshsharp. #
- To completely -original-, in the words of LCD Soundsystem, “Twitter, I love you but you’re bringing me down”. #
- To *be* completely… #
- @noony Rubi eh? Interesting. I have found ‘rubi’ in wikipedia http://snurl.com/29ufr
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- Twitter Updates for 2008-05-19
- Just made coffee for the office. Cappuccino stencils FTW! #
- @joshsharp @rosshill @aDB 25 minutes for me
# - listening to audiobytes for autobots. Hit and miss IMHO. #
- Eeek. All my memory are belong to firefox. #
- Bringing sexy back….to pdfs #
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- Twitter Updates for 2008-05-18
- Back from camping and house cleaing. Cleaning FTW! #
- After all these years Rove is still not funny. #
- @bck I believe it’s part of their optimisations, and all users getting to see it. I like it #
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- Twitter Updates for 2008-05-17
- Im camping in the rain, why i do not know #
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- Twitter Updates for 2008-05-16
- @NathanaelB Camtasia has my vote, lots of features. http://snurl.com/292cu #
- People don’t still use windows 98, thats just a scary story told around the campfire. Right? #
- @sebconn Jesus, mary and joseph, those poor children #
- @noony It will be a cold day in hell before I get in car controlled by a windows OS. BSOD OH SHIIIIIIT!!!! <crash> #
- @noony I would have said that up until a year ago, until I rear ended another at low speed. DRIVING FAIL #
- @smperris I love seeing an old box with Win95/98, lets me reminisce. I get over it -very- quickly. #
- @smperris I pity you:-). Tech support is the plight of all tech savvy family members. "Yes dad, I’ll have a look at your computer" (crap!) #
- @lu_lu um….. #
- @smperris I try to remain evasive, don’t get caught on the phone trobuleshooting. They always ambush me when I visit - damn them. #
- @smperris I’m lucky I have brothers that live at home who are tech minded. As you say, phone troubleshooting is as fun as extracting teeth #
- @joshsharp because he would freeze to death. It always happens with Queenslanders #
- @noony I’m jealous, I wanted to do physics. Good luck and all that. #
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- Twitter Updates for 2008-05-15
- Man I got the shakes sooo bad. Just give me a twitter hit. #
- Facebook; friend of paedophiles, stalkers and weirdos everywhere #
- @noony amen to that. my conveyancer was a moron #
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- Twitter Updates for 2008-05-14
- @bck Now you just have to decide which beer. Tough decision, so many good beers #
- @joshsharp I right there with you brother…unfortunately #
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- (Tech) evangelism in the 21st century
The other day I decided to add an about page to the blog, something I had hastily removed when setting wordpress up. My group, neigh, swarm of readers demanded it, they wanted to know something about the man behind such witty and insightful prose. So I set about to do just that, create an about page.
Now I don’t know about you, but I am a fairly modest guy, and I find it hard to write or in fact say anything too self promoting or self confident. But confidence begets confidence, so thats what I tried to do.
Type type type, type type type and voila we have an about page. Here is an excerpt:
…. By day a mild mannered web developer, by night a coding evangelist…
I followed the tried and true formula for an aspiring kick-arse-part-time-tech-writer person who is describing themselves; be a little serious, be self deprecating, be sarcastic, be funny and be an evangelist of something. I dwelt on the word evangelist and thought to myself “am I an evangelist?” and moreover “what is an evangelist?”. Everyone else appears to be an evangelist, evangelism is the term du jour for self description. Why can’t I? Now I thought might be a good time to do some research.
Now don’t take me for a fool (though many that know would say that is an apt description), I don’t go chucking words around that I don’t have at least a rudimentary understanding of. In the case however I thought I better get the dictionary definition, just to make sure I wasn’t mislabeling myself. So to borrow the definition from Merriam-Webster:
evangelist
Main Entry:
evan·ge·list
Pronunciation:
\i-ˈvan-jə-list\
Function:
noun
Date:
13th century1: often capitalized : a writer of any of the four Gospels
2: a person who evangelizes; specifically : a Protestant minister or layman who preaches at special services
3: an enthusiastic advocate <an evangelist for physical fitness>Now 1 and 2 are out, I have not preached in a long while, and despite my extensive writings on this blog and my years in the public school system I have yet to compose a Gospel. 3 however seemed to fit the bill, I am enthusiastic about coding, and I advocate good coding practices.
To confirm myself as a righteous evangelist I went for a tech slant via wikipedia.
What’s this?…A technical or technology evangelist is a person who attempts to build a critical mass of support for a given technology in order to establish it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects…
Doubt started to creep in. Had I made a terrible mistake labeling myself as an evangelist. Could I rightfully claim the title of evangelist? Alas, it was not to be. My conscience got the best of me. I quickly amended my about page to ‘coding enthusiast’.
Now if you are still reading at this point, you may be asking what’s the point. And I would say good point, asking what the point is….um?
The point is I would say evangelist is a label oft misplaced. You may argue it is just semantics, but without semantics the world and blog-o-sphere would be a crazy place.Wait for the next installment to see the ‘compendium of evangelists’, maybe.
- Twitter I love you, but we need to see other people
Twitter, I know we’ve been going out for a while. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve had some great times, some great conversations. You’re smart and succinct, you get your point across with a minimum of fuss. Your not like the other girls, myspace….airhead, and facebook. Facebook used to be so skinny but then she got fat, and forced me to keep inviting all her friends over.
What’s that? You say our relationship has never been stronger. That may be so now but what about in 6 months or 12 months? I think it’s better if we break it off and see other people. I hear brightkite is single.
- Semantic wordpress tagging
Greatest. Wordpress plugin. Ever.
