Jeff Eaton
Drupal developer
Software developer, teacher, and generally opinionated snark.
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http://twitter.com/eaton
http://jeff.viapositiva.net
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RT @netaustin I suspect that #NoSQL's success is largely due to lack of innovation by MySQL post-acquisition.
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Two days to the #sxsw panel on Open Source: 'Selling milk when the cow is free.' What questions do YOU want to sneak into the queue?
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OH: "'Middle class' means being able to waste an hour arguing about the definition of middle class with your college-educated friends."
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@codinghorror Why are you trying to silence people with your made-up 'Laws?'
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Dear #drupalweb: Any designers out there familiar with whipping up Zen-based pure CSS skins?
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Truly, a cause we can all get behind. http://is.gd/9UeMD
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Talking politics on the internet is like drinking. After four posts, a fifth post sounds like a GREAT idea!
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Funny, years after it was released, the Fivestar module's icon set is still an easy way to spot a Drupal site... http://is.gd/9LdXh
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Oh, man. Someone just skyped me to warn me about my Windows Registry! That's SERVICE. I wonder how I get to that on my Mac.
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@codinghorror Yes, but the elegance, the beauty... she's a killing *machine!*
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OK, seriously. It's getting *ridiculous* now. http://is.gd/9GAGd
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"Wormholes are to black holes as elevators are to deep wells filled with snakes and poisoned spikes." http://is.gd/9En90
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dear #lazyweb. Where the heck can I find a copy of 'Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices'?
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My brief experiment with Pingback support is conclusive: 100% pure spam.
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Sort of Invented Here - http://tinyurl.com/yk8gb5x
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Slowly warming to the idea of using Feeds module instead of service-specific #drupal modules when I only need to import data.
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Recent conversations on #metafilter make me think that a #sxsw theology meetup brunch could be *full of win*.
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'Developing Technical Training, Third Edition' by Ruth Clark is the best book in ever. Props to @emmajanedotnet for recommending it!
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If you are arguing that science is wrong, *quoting a blogger's heckling of someone's op-ed piece* is not considered 'proof'.
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#drupal tip: if the status page says http requests fail, but they work when you try them, ensure the web server can resolve its own domain.
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Just picked up Designing Social Interfaces. Another great O'Reilly book, really loving the way it pulls things together.
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@timoreilly Because dissecting business ops is confusing, but calling politicians evil is easy.
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Looks like the big news is official: http://is.gd/9skMi @sirkitree and @davexoxide have joined Lullabot!
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Played with the laser-pointer until my hand cramped. Now the cats are spawn-camping the spot where it disappeared.

