Author Archives: Tom Vaughan

New Developer Law

NEW LAW FOR DEVELOPERS: If you throw an exception about some connection being refused, you'd better damn well put what connection you were attempting to make in the exception message. What inspired this law?  Thanks for asking.

The Cheated Frogs of Vim

We're still too small of a company to have more than 1 or 2 logical groupings of the development team, and before today they've been basically "the web team" and "everyone else."  Of course, there's a lot of cross-pollination and everything nowadays ultimately manifests itself somehow as "'web". Still, the "everyone else" paint brush was wearing thin.  In addition to the "web team", we had "the scale team" (a.k.a "Ops R&D") and "the AMI team" and "the core team" and "the report team". . .but most of those were "teams" averaged size 1 and their membership varied from iteration-to-iteration.