Yes, Chef! Git in the Kitchen
Busy restaurant kitchens and busy software development teams have similar process needs. One similarity is the never-ending search for the perfect process.
Category: Cookin’ and a’Codin
Does a Bad Website = A Bad Company?
A bad manager once told me, “Perception is everything.” This was a man who lied a lot … at someone else’s expense to benefit himself. One of the problems with websites is that they really don’t tell you whether a company is good or bad. The Path to the Boiled …
Food Story: Tamales for New Years and other Cultural Confusions
A classmate said, “Since you lived in Spain, you must love tacos and tamales.”
Food Stories: Captain Crunch for Christmas
When you are so poor that Captain Crunch is a gift under the Christmas Tree.
Cookin’ and a’Codin: Frameworks, Libraries, and Platforms
Frameworks, Libraries, and Platforms These three terms are common when describing a technology for web programmers. They are only helpful, if you know what they are. Frameworks When you Google technical terminology, like “framework”, the results are generally as unfamiliar as the original term. According to Wikipedia, “In computer programming, …
Text and Images are the Ingredients for your Website
Website structures are similar to putting together a salad, and how ingredients work in a salad.
On Fish and Chips and Recipe Blogs: Where’s the Fish?
Most recipe pages have a very, very thick layer of text between large photos with a processed recipe in there somewhere at the bottom.
Comfort Food: A Growing List
The meaning of comfort food becomes very real when you go to a place that has different comfort food.
“I’m Going to Make them Call Me” and Household Appliances
I thought I would try the Cuisinart food process that sits neglected on our kitchen counter to make gazpacho. I was hoping that it would chop instead of pureeing the vegetables. Then I found out why it sits there unused. Cuisinart is trying to force me to follow their incomprehensible …
And Betwixt Them Both, You See, They Licked the Platter Clean
The idea is to have them licking the platter clean, even if it’s squash!