http://blog.deletedtheory.com Rob Villeneuve - programmer & web developer Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:11:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Week 1 of Mustaches for Kids has ended with a mandatory shave.  We all met at the Clocktower pub to show off our progress and share a pint or two. Bex captured everyone's progress from week 1 of mustaches for kids in Ottawa, and the photos will be on the m4k ... http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/11/mustaches-for-kids-jose/ long exposure at the pub, originally uploaded by Viller. Bex, Jonny & I tried a whole new set of long exposure shots w/ LED's while at the pub. This one of Jonny is by far the best of the bunch. http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/10/long-exposure-jonny-at-the-pub/ for bex's x-wife, originally uploaded by Viller. Earlier this year bex made a wicked card for Chris & Erin's wedding from the silhouette of two hands in the shape of a heart. Lisa liked the outcome and asked bex for a new version as a former roommate memento. ... http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/10/three-hands-treppiede/ A group from Germany called Lichtfaktor captures crazy photos in the dark using long exposure with light to paint over the images.  They have some great pieces, and credit to my co-workers Ben Watts & Meghan Gough at 76design who introduced me to their work and technique. Ben Watts posted ... http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/09/long-exposure-photos-w-leds/ People are excited about the web for different reasons.  Some people are excited by the social interaction, some simply for e-commerce, others are drawn in by exciting design, and then there are those of us who are in to the technology which brings it all together.  I admit it, I ... http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/09/how-digg-works/ I was fortunate enough to catch a tweet about the live.37signals.com webcast, and I after catching the last 30 minutes and was impressed.  These guys have solid web dev & business philosophy (but we all knew that), and they hand out some great advice.  Inspiring for designers, developers, programmers & ... http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/09/qa-with-37signals/ Our short summer is drawing to a close, but on the bright side Demo Camp Ottawa is back on September 29, 2008.  I can't wait to see what everyone has been up to over the summer and catch up over a frosty pint. Space is limited, so be sure to ... http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/09/demo-camp-ottawa-10-sept-29-2008/ This week I attended an open lunch and learn hosted by Ramius, and featuring Craig Fitzpatrick of devshop.  The topic was kicking the top bad habits of project management, more specifically with software development projects.  While this was a little bit of a product demo for the recently released devshop ... http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/08/devshop-20-kicking-the-top-bad-habits-of-project-management/ August Long Weekend, originally uploaded by Viller. Rebecca and I split on a new Digital SLR. With our modest budget we picked up a Nikon D60 with a 50mm lens. We spent the next 3 days taking hundreds of pictures... so much fun. I really like the lighting ... http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/08/august-long-weekend/ About a month ago a friend of mine named Peter Childs wrote an insightful blog post called Learning to Code, in which Peter describes what it is like to jump into a developer's shoes. Peter has plenty of experience working with software developers, but this is the first time that ... http://blog.deletedtheory.com/index.php/2008/06/passing-around-some-new-found-respect-qa-testers/