A Saturday thought on failure…
I’m not kidding in the title. You should be looking for areas to fail in. You can’t succeed without it. If you’re not accustomed to pushing yourself to the limit, you’ll never reach a goal that exists at the limit.
You should put yourself in situations that significantly challenge your ability to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Education'
Failure - Go out and find it
August 2nd, 2008 ·
Tags: Economics · Education · Managing · Rock Climbing
What a great day! (Phillies, software, 12seconds, WCU)
July 24th, 2008 ·
Had an awesome day - time to share!
12seconds.tv/channels/solyoung
First 12second introduction
TechCrunch link
WCU post
Tags: 12seconds · Blogging · Education · Geek Dinner · Ingram Digital · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Philadelphia · Software Development · Video
Scoble and Gary in DC
June 26th, 2008 ·
MCCXXIII
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Last night I headed down to MCCXXIII, a club at 1223 NW. Connecticut, for a DC Social Media meetup. The meetup featured Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) and Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) as guests.
I’ve been following Scoble more than usual this week, as he’s come to DC to interview politicians and government officials with Rocky (@RocmanUSA) and his [...]
Tags: Blogging · Economics · Education · Energy · Social Networking · Twitter · Utterz
Why I’m not opposed to rising fuel prices - Philip Greenspun’s electric car post
May 27th, 2008 ·
Image of Ford Reflex, a concept hybrid vehicle with solar panels on the roof
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Philip Greenspun, professor of electrical engineering at MIT (and an avid traveler and fellow aviator), has an outstanding post. He explains some simple math behind replacing every passenger vehicle in America for electric cars. The resulting cost: Zero.
Link to Professor Greenspun’s post
We’re [...]
Tags: Economics · Education · Energy · Etiquette · Links
How to virtualize Windows on an Ubuntu host for an optimized dev / qa environment
May 11th, 2008 ·
After converting my MacBook Pro in to a Windows developer dream, I wanted to have the same experience on a more portable, commodity hardware unit. Virtualizing Windows within Windows with VMware Server is something I’m familiar with. It’s something many Windows developers may prefer (and I recommend if you’re not comfy with linux as your [...]
Tags: Education · Microsoft · OS X · QA · Software Development · Ubuntu · VMware · Windows · Xubuntu
Hints of grad school - I want my MBA
April 13th, 2008 ·
Galina and I went on our first bike ride of Spring (pics). We rode past the Philadelphia Art Museum, along the riverfront and over to UPenn. A large part of the day was spent at a Wharton volleyball tournament with some great friends.
We met some new people while sitting in the bleachers and hanging out. [...]
Teaching class classes for PHP development - Rock Band Example
April 9th, 2008 ·
Object-Oriented Programming (OO or OOP) is the best way to have re-usable, sharable, less-bug-ridden, easily readable, easier to debug, and easier-to-pick-up-later professionally written software.
“Learning classes” is the functional way to describe learning object-oriented programming. One skill begets the other. When in college my professor played a video of a band playing music. The band represented [...]
Tags: Education · PHP · Software Development · Teaching · Web Services
















