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Slides From My Talk

Max Kanat-Alexander — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:35:55 +0000

So, I just had my talk, Code Simplicity: Software Design In Open Source Projects at OSCON 2008. It went really well!

Here’s the slides from my talk (also available in PDF Format).

-Max

Talking at OSCON

Max Kanat-Alexander — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:15:45 +0000

I’m going to be talking at FOSSCoach, a free series of lectures at OSCON. You don’t need a session pass to attend, but you do need to register (for free).

I’ll be talking on Thursday, July 24, at 3:25pm, in either room E143 or E144 at the Oregon Convention Center.

I’ll tell you basically everything I know and have learned about software design, and then how it applies to Open Source software, all in about 45 minutes. Should be fun and interesting!

-Max

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FOSSCoach 2008

Max Kanat-Alexander — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:14:53 +0000

If you’re going to be in Portland, Oregon or attending OSCON and you want to hear me talk, I’ve proposed a session for FOSSCoach called Code Simplicity: Software Design In Open Source Projects.

Registration for FOSSCoach is free, but is limited to 100 people, so sign up if you want to come.

-Max

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Truncated Posts in RSS?

Max Kanat-Alexander — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:45:10 +0000

Hey everybody. So, some of my posts are rather long, and so I truncate them with a (Read More…) link that takes you to the full post. That link also shows up in the RSS, as a (more…) link.

For the frontpage of codesimplicity.com, I think that’s pretty useful–it makes it a lot easier to browse the various articles. But I was wondering, for those who read this in an aggregator or via RSS–for the long posts, do you prefer getting only the short version (with the “more…” link) or would you rather just have the whole post?

Update: It looks like, from the comments, that full text in the feed is the clear winner! That’s actually my preference too, when reading sites, but I usually am not reading posts as long as the ones I write. I’ve installed and activated the Full Text Feed plugin for WordPress, so in the future the feeds will contain the full text even though the front page and email notifications will still be cut by the “more” link.

-Max

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Welcome to Code Simplicity!

Max Kanat-Alexander — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:20:22 +0000

Welcome to Code Simplicity!

There are a lot of technical blogs in the world. There are a lot of technical people in the world. It’s a technical world.

Unfortunately, it’s also becoming more and more a complex world.

The focus of Code Simplicity is to discuss simplicity and simple things in the world of computers. I think the greatest application of intelligence is taking something complex and making it simple.

If you know of any particular examples where somebody took something really complex and made it simple, let me know and I’d be happy to feature it here. I’d really like real-world stories of how simplicity improved your life in the world of computing.

At first, I’m going to be re-posting some (possibly revised) articles from my personal blog. After that, there should be some new content, and hopefully, some user-submitted content!

Anyhow, this is mostly just a “Hello, and Welcome” post, and soon there will be more real content here.

-Max

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