Art and Commentary

Companies don’t necessarily hire a “java programmer” or “ruby programmer”. Really serious companies hire “great developers”, “passionate developers”. If you don’t care about what you do, you will end up in some commodity software factory with little to no incentive to grow up in your career. Real developers are master craftsmen. Enjoy what you do, learn a lot, endlessly, and you should not have any difficulties finding a job

Fabio Akita via Dmitry Belitsky

Getting frozen, or fixed, header and footer rows in a table is a
frustrating exercise, especially if you need to support Internet
Explorer 7. In searching for solutions to what you would think would
be a common problem, I discovered two plug-ins for jQuery that ease
the pain of displaying tables with such features:

• Flexigrid
  Offers a ton of features, but is maintained by a lone developer who
  barely has a web presence at all.
• DataTables
  Lots of configuration options for dynamically loading, searching,
  sorting, and even summarizing data; however, it does not offer a
  built-in solution for frozen header/footers.

http://bartsblackboard.com/

Michael K. expresses a lot of what I’ve been mulling over for the last few months in the The great demise of the file: I want to manage my own data. I want to preserve it myself. I don’t want to depend on another application and its developers to continue to access the stuff I write and the photos I take. Will their apps be there for me in a year? Five years? Ten? Twenty?

Files – plain, jpeg’s, png’s, mp3’s – they’ll be around, as easy to find and use as they have been for the last twenty-five years.

Succinctly states what so many veteran programmers working in the
Microsoft world miss:

Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.