Areas of Expertise:
- rails
- engineering management
- agile management
- startups
- social software
- social networks
- web 2.0
- consulting
- speaking
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Tony's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.stubbleblog.com/
Tony also has an O'Reilly blog.
http://www.stubbleblog.com/
Tony also has an O'Reilly blog.
May 16 2008
For the past year or so, Sarah and I have ended each day by telling each other two good things. For the bulk of the year, our format was for the two things to be things that happened during the day that had made us happy such as closing a… read moreMay 08 2008
Sarah and I just got back from a talk at Haas about “deliberate practice” as it relates to excellence. The idea is that how good (or expert) you become at a skill has a lot more to do with how you go about doing your work than it has to… read moreMay 08 2008
Here are my notes from the small business hacks session at Web2Open. Don MacAskill, Jen Bekman, and Bryan Mason were the major guests. Don’t discount until completion. Bryan says that when they do pro-bono or non-profit work they don’t discount their work until the client has implemented their advice. I can relate… read moreMay 08 2008
Sarah and I just got back from a talk at Haas about “deliberate practice” as it relates to excellence. The idea is that how good (or expert) you become at a skill has a lot more to do with how you go about doing your work than it has to… read moreMay 08 2008
Here are my notes from the small business hacks session at Web2Open. Don MacAskill, Jen Bekman, and Bryan Mason were the major guests. Don’t discount until completion. Bryan says that when they do pro-bono or non-profit work they don’t discount their work until the client has implemented their advice. I can relate… read moreApril 01 2008
Web2Open is coming together with some sessions that I’m pretty psyched for. The Open is the free unconference side of Web 2.0 Expo. Like other unconferences you can show up the morning of and add your own session to the open grid. But we’re also doing some pre-planned content and… read moreSlashdot Review for Regular Expression Pocket Reference
March 27 2008
Michael J. Ross gave the second edition of Regular Expression Pocket Reference a score of 9/10 in his Slashdot review. He was particularly impressed by the lack of errors. As of this writing, there are no unconfirmed errata (those submitted by readers but not yet checked by the author to see… read moreMarch 25 2008
In college I had a wonderful Humanities professor who insisted on making us write short essays so we could practice writing succinctly. After each essay she would personally sit down with us and critique our logic (and our grammar!). Her feedback to me was almost always the same, “your argumen read moreMarch 24 2008
This is so sweet. I found a post about a new venture from my Dad, Forget CDs Or iTunes - Buy Your Music On Reel-To-Reel Tape From The Tape Project. First, the picture is amazing. I’m pretty sure that the reels are laser etched with your serial number. Secondly, this project is… read moreMarch 14 2008
I purchased three things in the last year that I’ve ended up being very happy with. System76 Pangolin Laptop Last summer I decided to switch from OSX back to Linux. I don’t think Linux is better desktop software necessarily. However 99% of my time is spent either using software that’s the… read moreFebruary 28 2008
Two summers ago I put up IHeartQuotes.com, a personal project to see what kind of site I could develop in two work days. It’s a quote rating site and the quotes are all taken from Unix fortune files. The break down of work was 8 hours to find an available… read moreFebruary 12 2008
I’ve heard a couple of things recently that I want to share and see if anyone has any feedback. One. I was at a conference for Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and the keynote speaker was giving a talk on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). I already knew that the members of MPI… read moreWeak Dollar Means More European Business
January 31 2008
I recently started seven straight work days with phone calls to Europe. That was a little jarring at first but made some sense because we’d just run successful networks for conferences in London and Berlin. What took me a little longer to figure out was how little pushback I got… read moreJanuary 26 2008
Sarah and I just signed up to organize Web2Open, the unconference that runs inside of Web 2.0 Expo (April 22-25). It’s free, so you should come even if you weren’t planning on going to the rest of the conference. We’re just starting our planning but I wanted to announce it in… read moreJanuary 13 2008
For the new year, Sarah and I instituted a no “random laptopping” after 10pm rule. That means if we’re not doing productive work we shut the laptops and move on to something else. Right now there’s some debate about whether Scrabulous constitutes random laptopping, but for me, at least, the… read moreTony's O'Reilly Blog
What Do You Want From Your Ruby Gem Search Tool?
May 18 2006
I want to be able to read the documentation, that’s what. I can never make heads or tails of a module until I get past the title and summary and into the actual documentation. That’s where you learn that the ’simple to use framework for foo’ is only 5% completed or… read more
