One time charges are pretty typical when layoffs are announced. They are usually the cost of severance pay for the weeks or months of salary paid to employees who are no longer working. Office space leases are typically long term (multiple years) and accounting rules require they recognize the expected future cost of that now-useless space when the layoff decision is made. In practice, cash won't actually change hands for the office space until rent is due in future months. And companies will work with the landlord to get out of the lease (but often pay some penalty for the privilege).
The topics demonstrate intermediate/advanced web development/tdd concepts in Ruby but the lessons can easily be applied in other languages. There are even a few videos that show this approach with Python and C.
Initially when choosing between Ko or BB I made a small experiment trying to tie them up together. It seemed to require a lot of glue code to actually make things work. I guess I haven't been trying hard enough. Someone ultimately got these two frameworks work in sync with this full-featured Backbone-Knockout bridge: http://kmalakoff.github.com/knockback
Looks quite promising although it doesn't seem to have any users at the moment.
In some ways 'ship spinning' in eve was the iphone equivalent of dragging a screen past its boundary and watching it snap back in place.
Dragging the camera (with a mouse down, move and release) would cause it to rotate around the player's ship until some artificial 'drag' decided the spin should slow to a stop. It was one of those innocent and functionally useless UI features, that is surprisingly satisfying to preform.
One of the best pieces of advice I heard at Startup bootcamp came from Bill Clerico (WePay CEO) when he described building software as a community process. It seemed like an elegant way to say users are what really matter and it applies equally well to commercial, open source and personal projects.
The overthinking it podcast is one of my favorites. A panel generally overthinks movies and other artifacts from pop culture and arrives at some interesting concepts by following Hollywood's 'movie logic'. http://www.overthinkingit.com/category/podcast/otip/
The intelligence of crows has always been my favorite. Joshua Klein talks about a cleaver way to create a mutually beneficial relationship with a species usually considered to be a pest.
I only recently spent enough time with regexs to learn them to the point where I no longer need to consult a reference every time I wanted to write one. Now I wish I had learned regexs sooner. Regexs are fantastical useful and I've noticed a productivity boost not only in writing programs but also for manipulating tools such as grep and emacs.
CS Junior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute looking for a web development internship in the Boston area. Skilled in Python, Django, Java, Linux and more. Email bmcloughlin@wpi.edu for a resume.
