A reason for Death

My friend Mike studies Evolution, Biology and Bioinformatics at UVU. He and I often engage in wonderful thought provoking discussions on life, and our part in it.

I appreciate Mike's thoughts here on the evolution of death. Death was developed through evolution. It reminds me of the gentlemen from Canada who continuously talks about developing gene therapy to continuously delay death. But none of that will happen while researchers continue on the assumption of death as a requirement of part of life.

in reference to: Evolution and Bioinformatics: Life Ascending and the evolution of death (view on Google Sidewiki)

Stop the Obfuscation~!

Once again, I have to agree with you Brandon. There is another point to this as well. In the build that I run, with so many thousands of classes, each with hundreds (if not thousands) of lines of code, this obfuscation process takes quite a bit longer to run in the build. Anything that takes longer in the build, but doesn't offer clear developer benefit can deter developers from running the build (and tests) before check-in because it just takes too long.

Thanks for the great post Brandon.

in reference to: Java Programming Tip: Why Not to Obfuscate - mechanicalSPIRIT (view on Google Sidewiki)

Spanky's closed down?

After my wonderful experience at Spanky's following my 7 year old daughter's driver's ed course, I fell in love with Spanky's. So did she. Their environment was comfortable, clean and friendly, and their food tastes great.

I was really sad though that for her birthday, they were unexpectedly closed. I visited yesterday in hopes for delicious lunch. Again they were closed. Called today too. But they appear to be closed.

What is going on Spanky's? I am in need of your Fresh Delicious Guacamole Burger!

in reference to: SPANKY'S EXPRESS (view on Google Sidewiki)

Sketchy designs

Many of you may be looking for a comparison of a lot of the mockup / sketchy design tools. While I haven't tried all of these tools out, and I really do love Balsamiq, this may be a nice place to start! Now if I could just find that cool data graphing design tool I saw yesterday...

in reference to:

"Comparison of Computer Based Sketchy ToolsSoftware developers are starting to recognize the importance of computer-based sketchy wireframes, and there is a growing assortment of tools to create them. This is a quick breakdown of how each of the major tools matches our criteria for a complete computer-based sketchy tool:"
- Sketchy Wireframes - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design (view on Google Sidewiki)

your mockup prototype as a PDF

OK, so this feature is super awesome. Providing a way to export a mockup, with clickable interaction. This is awesome. Today in fact, I sent off a screen full of mockups to some stakeholders, wishing I could demonstrate the flow better than just a bunch of mockup screenshots lined up in a row.

in reference to: Balsamiq Exports Multi-Canvas Mockups to Single PDF | Konigi (view on Google Sidewiki)

SketchFlow vs Balsamiq

Sketch flow looks very neat, and I do really wish that Balsamiq would add the ability to sketch out some of the workflows, and I wish that it would provide stakeholders a player in which to view my mockups, and make their own sketches and marks and comments on it for a bit of historical marking.

in reference to: Why SketchFlow Is not a Mockup Software | .NET Zone (view on Google Sidewiki)

The Ponzi Scheme that stole my house in Highland

Some of you may have read earlier in my blog http://www.fishtells.com/2008/04/lure.html concerning the investments that went sour for me. Well, this is where my money ended up finally. Misused and abused by Mr. Rick Koerber. I'm glad he is being indicted and prevented from scamming even more people.

in reference to: Rick Koerber pleads not guilty to new criminal charges (view on Google Sidewiki)