Chad Dickerson

Facebook's evolution with regards to photo storage. - Chad Dickerson

Facebook's evolution with regards to photo storage. - Chad Dickerson

Etsy in Readers Digest! - Chad Dickerson

"Tired of being the last to know when your systems are down? PagerDuty aggregates alerts from any monitoring tool that sends email and calls you if there's a problem." - Chad Dickerson

Nice summary of the Pragmatic Programmer, a must-read for anyone who is serious about programming. - Chad Dickerson

Photo tour of Etsy HQ - Chad Dickerson

Great post from Chris. - Chad Dickerson

Matt Stinchcomb rocks, literally. - Chad Dickerson

Massive On-line Analysis is an environment for massive data mining. MOA is a framework for data stream mining. Includes tools for evaluation and a collection of machine learning algorithms. Related to the WEKA project, also written in Java, while scaling to more demanding problems. - Chad Dickerson

"But blogging is just the tip of the amafessional iceberg. Etsy - a site where people sell what they make – has registered nearly 200,000 sellers, and sales more than doubled in a year, all from people making arts and crafts. Here you will find $35 art works, $10 hand-made gloves, and $5 earrings, most of which are made by amafessionals who for the first time can go to a broader marketplace with the goods they make but could never get to market before the Internet opened it up." - Chad Dickerson

Albert is completely on the money on this one. - Chad Dickerson

At his Agile 2008 keynote in Toronto, "Uncle Bob" came forth with a proposal that the [Agile] Manifesto is due for a fifth value: "Craftsmanship over Crap". As he explained, the value signifies that it is more important to pay attention to good craftsmanship in software development, most notably when writing code, than it is simply to crank out working, but "crappy", code. A week later Bob took the opportunity to clarify his intention, revising the new value he had put forth in Toronto: The problem with my proposal is that it is not a balanced value statement. In the other four statements we value the second item. We just value the first item more. But in my proposed addition, we simply don’t value crap at all. So I hereby change my original proposal, which was made for dramatic effect, to: * Craftsmanship over Execution Most software development teams execute, but they don’t take care. We value execution, but we value craftsmanship more. " - Chad Dickerson