http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog Business, Programming, Politics, and Life Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:12:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm thoroughly impressed with the team at Omega Vortex, the past few weeks. After a lot of development and testing, we finally decided to set a release date firmer than "Q3 2008" internally. We had two specific products that we wanted to make a release on at the beginning of ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/making-it-all-come-together/ People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power. - Bill Clinton Say what you want about Bill Clinton, but that one line is probably the single best thing I think I've ever heard him say. http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/bill-clinton-dnc-quote/ We're getting really close to releasing some stuff over at Omega Vortex. One of the products that's coming out soon is Steven's NextShout. NextShout is a shoutbox add-on to vBulletin that's been designed to be extremely fast and bandwidth efficient. Where similar shoutbox add-ons are not only more expensive, but ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/nextshout-pre-ordering-now-available/ The slides for Rasmus Lerdorf's FrOSCon 2008 presentation are up. If you're involved in PHP Development at any level, you should go look at them. You might be surprised at the performance of your favorite framework. http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/rasmus-lerdorf-froscon-2008-slides/ I wish I was cool enough to add pictures of myself doing random stupid crap to fan galleries of celebrities on Facebook. Why can't you people follow the rules? I was looking for a specific picture and ended up seeing some random guy's exposed buttocks in a gallery for a ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/idiots/ While I was a little strapped for cash this year, I took on a job as a Sales Representative for Planet Celluar, an Authorized Retailer for AT&T Products and Services. It was an okay job, about as glamorous as retail sales can be. Due to some expansion at Omega Vortex ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/dealing-with-sales-representatives/ As classes and consulting work at Omega Vortex keep pushing me more and more into .NET development, I thought it would be a good time as any to try to start learning new things and try to keep my mind working on this stuff. I decided to start looking for ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/linqtowmi-project/ Adam Kinder of E29 Incorporated put up a blog entry on the internet's phenomenon of producing fake companies not too long ago (I just recently noticed it, thanks to Twitter). Omega Vortex got an Honorable Mention on his list of companies that get it right: A runner up that I’m going ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/fake-companies-and-honorable-mentions/ Even vague ones ... and I mean really vague. Quite a while ago, Omega Vortex adopted a policy that we would refrain from announcing specific release dates. We won't even narrow it down to a month for you. There's quite a few reasons that we do this. We're a startup that's bootstrapping ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/release-dates-are-evil/ Most of your [code] comments are unnecessary. Don't ever tell a developer that. Especially, one that is learning. Code commenting is one of biggest components of code maintainability and there are simply not enough developers that do it enough. The thought that someone really would instill the thought that comments are ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/imbeciles-in-the-wild/