Silly Rhymes

I ordered a copy of Trace Beaulieu's Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children as a gift for as an unyet to be named niece or nephew.

Trace said Len Peralta had done the illustrating, and you can appreciate Len's geek a week trading card series here.

I'm particularly fond of the Felicia Day card.

Geeky

I found this Tiobe Software programming community index fascinating.  I wouldn't have guessed C and C++ outdistanced C#.  Or that Groovy was all the way down at 36.  I might have guessed VB.NET was .263%, but I know at least two people who can program in VB.NET, so that puts me well above that number in my "community".

Thoughtworks has an interesting pdf talking about the state of software as they see it.  The death of Java?  Really?  I don't see it.  Then again, my company loves Java, and I don't always trust their technical direction. Is that a horrible thing for a manager to say?  I trust MY technical direction and I'm part of the company, so perhaps that suffices.

These HTML5Rocks slides, which are written in HTML5/CSS3 and both explain and demo the HTML5 features, are cool.  I recommend Chrome if you're headed over there to check them out. I just finished Brian Hogan's HTML5 and CSS3 - the book and the web site complement each other nicely.

Tall Brad sent me this link about spelling autocorrect humiliating people.  People should be humiliated if they can't spell.  Enjoy.

Danny MacAskill video from my parents.  BIKE GEEK!  Sweeeeet...  Background music is Wax and Wire by Loch Lomond.  Even sweeter.


What kind of nut pays money to bike up Mount Lemmon?
(pilfered from Google)

Kyle is searching for flatulence deodorizers. He found one.

Configuration Developer

I read this amusing article about new developer jargon at Global Nerdy yesterday. Then today, I spent a good chunk of time messing around with configurations for a piece of third party software, odbc settings, oracle instant client settings (tnsnames/et al), and the like. That officially puts me in the category of Configuration Developer. Doh! I'm glad I'm digging through the SCJP Exam book so I can feel like I'm actually doing a bit of real code.

I really like banana banana banana, duck, ghetto code, and Jimmy.

• Programmer Jargon
• eWeek's slide show version

Kill -9

I'm stealing a link from John Duprey because if you're a developer, Kill -9 is pretty damn funny (though not language appropriate at work).

My Life is a Movie!

I've been issued a Bourne Ultimatum!

"The installation script has a minimal set of requirements:

o Bourne shell in /bin/sh (if your Bourne shell is not located there you

may need to edit the first line of the install file)."

Speck - Conventional Lover

Pooteewheet and I both chuckled when we heard Speck's "Conventional Lover" (lyrics) on Rock Band II. Very Shakespearian title. Pete. Sarah. Did you play it during your wedding? I have posted a video (just the vocals for the most part) and lyrics below as I thought both Mean Mr. Mustard and Kyle might enjoy them.



Who left you hanging on that peg all alone?
You look near mint to me babe and I wanna make you my own
I wanna be your captain, my Pon Farr is a-risin'
So step on over here girl, my love is enterprisin'

Let me be your conventional lover
Let me show you some conventional love
I don't mean to boast, I don't mean to brag (ooh love long and prosper)
But I'm a man whose only issues all come in mylar bags

Let me be your conventional lover
Let me give you my conventional love
I'll give you my heart, I'll treat you nice (ooh love long and prosper)
And the games that I play only have twenty-sided dice

They're polyhedral!

Let's hit the dealer's room and get you something fine
That collectors bust of Cthulhu reminds me of how you blow my mind
Now let me take you dancing in my best Starfleet dress uniform
You'll want to tap my mana once you've seen me perform

Let me be your conventional lover
Let me show you some conventional love
I don't mean to boast, I don't mean to brag (ooh love long and prosper)
But I'm a man whose only issues all come in mylar bags

Let me be your conventional lover
Let me give you my conventional love
I'll give you my heart, I'll treat you nice (ooh love long and prosper)
And the games that I play only have twenty-sided dice

Uh oh
Saving throw!

And when we get to mating, I'll always treat you kind
I'll never bend you too far back or ever crease your spine
But there's one thing I won't promise, there's one thing I won't do
Can't leave you in the box babe, this collector is coming through

Let me be your conventional lover
Let me show you some conventional love
I don't mean to boast, I don't mean to brag (ooh love long and prosper)
But I'm a man whose only issues all come in mylar bags

Let me be your conventional lover
Let me give you my conventional love
I'll give you my heart, I'll treat you nice (ooh love long and prosper)
And the games that I play only have twenty-sided dice

Let me be your conventional lover
Let me give you my conventional love
I'll give you my heart, I'll treat you fine
And I'll make sweet love to you while we're watching Deep Space Nine