Maurice's selected thoughts.

Maurice’s Law of Misplaced Items

maurice — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:58:22 +0000

Maurice’s Law of Misplaced Items basically states that the thing you have misplaced is going to be in the most relatively inconvenient location possible. I had an opportunity to test this just today. I was looking for something and I determined that the housekeeper had mistaken it for garbage. So, there were about four bags [...] No related posts.

Logic Studio 9 on Quad G5 Unsupported but Working

maurice — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:54 +0000

If like me you thought G5 support was dropped to soon in the Logic product line you may be happy to hear that what this means is that Apple won’t answer your questions. I’ve been running Logic 9 on my 4 year old quad G5 for about a week now. Ran some rather heavy projects [...] No related posts.

Delivering and Quitting

maurice — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:11:28 +0000

Sometimes I get confused. When this happens it can take a good smack to the ego to straighten me out. Ego or pride is the primary problem with knowing when to deliver and when to quit. Here are three points I remembered recently. First, “Quitters never win” is completely false. Truth is it depends on [...] No related posts.

Every Interaction is Part of a Story

maurice — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:56:10 +0000

Everyone knows I’m a long time Apple user. So you can imagine there are a lot of interactions with Apple that form a fairly long, and at this point mostly positive story. My ADC membership expired a few weeks ago, so as is usually the case I started poking around the website to click the [...] No related posts.

Lessons Learned or Not

maurice — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:45:00 +0000

I’ve just had a sudden realization. All those years in school looking at the other students thinking why can’t they be smarter and just get the math, science, or whatever – I was wrong. They weren’t the slow ones because they were learning exactly the lesson the curriculum was designed to teach them. I was [...] No related posts.

Storage Problems Part 3: Resolution

maurice — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:00:43 +0000

I’m declaring my storage problems to be resolved. Though I’m sure this will come up again. I have to believe at this point I will not encounter the issue for several more years. I now have about 5 TB of free storage across several systems, with another 1.5 TB drive ready to act as either [...] Related posts:

Design Patterns, Recipes, and Chefs

maurice — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:00:00 +0000

The introduction of catalogs of patterns has been a great advancement to software engineering. These collections of common solutions to common design problems are an excellent way to pass knowledge of the software engineering craft from one practitioner to another. I am happy to have several great texts from this category taking up valuable shelf [...] No related posts.

9 favorite books I read in 2009

maurice — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:00:55 +0000

Here are a few of my favorite software engineering related books I’ve read in the last year. To make this list the book had to be something I read in 2009, and it had to be interesting, useful, or just plain insanely great at totally changing my perspective on something. The Passionate Programmer Pomodoro Technique [...] Related posts:

Top 10 favorite software engineering tools of 2009

Top 10 favorite software engineering tools of 2009

maurice — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:30:00 +0000

Since 2009 is almost officially over here is a list of my favorite software engineering related tools I’ve been using this year. Most of these tools have been around for a while, and I didn’t necessarily just start using them this year. These are all things I just found to be very useful throughout the [...] Related posts:

9 favorite books I read in 2009

Unfortunately for the music industry I’m a rat

maurice — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:51:57 +0000

Seth Godin wrote this ingenious analysis of market changes titled “It’s not the rats you need to worry about“. It got me to thinking about how I prefer CDs over downloaded music. Primarily I have this preference based on the quality of the content. I’d prefer not to have more physical media taking up space [...] No related posts.