Hopefully this means Monoprice will have them soon.

This post is part of the project: Monoprice Lightning Cables. View the project timeline for more context on this post.

I found the high level RISC vs. CISC overview here to be very useful (even though in the next episode John disclaims it heavily as “high level” and recommends digging in to learn more if you’re interested).

Coding in the real world is about tradeoffs; we have to do the best thing we can with the time, resources, and tools at our disposal. These tradeoffs may not result in an According-to-Hoyle OO (or functional) design, but we’re not writing code to provide examples of programming paradigms or design patterns; we’re writing it to accomplish something and provide value.

Looks like a fun “rainy day” project… (thanks The Verge)

Wednesday is also liquor-store day. While you’ve hopefully delegated the purchasing of wine and booze to your guests, make a trip today for your secret holiday stash.

Some gems in here. (Thanks Mike)

Awesome talk from Eric about the light field and the future of photography.

As previously mentioned, I thoroughly enjoyed Ryan’s talk at Monktoberfest.

If you work on the web, you should be reading Steve Souders’ blog.

I was very gratified to see this posted on the Crowd Favorite intranet (and on a team member’s personal blog). After reading this, watch Theo talk about a career in web operations.

Then think about your career.

I agree with most of the conventions here.

Very flattering to be included in the inaugural Confluence Denver. Glad to see my friends at Xcellent and Double Encore representing as well.