Gone Digital, with Joel Kitching

I just watched Randy Hnatko, a sales training specialist working at Sandler Training present on the topic of transactional analysis. Transactional analysis "is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and psychotherapy [with] elements of psychoanalytic, humanist and cognitive approaches" (from Wikipedia: Transactional analysis).

I would like to give an update as to how the Google Analytics API project is going to date. Here is how it has progressed since the start of the GSoC term:

I am back at work full-time this summer at ImageX Media, where I have been over the past two summers as well. It's a Mac shop. I don't use Macs. And since I always seem to forget the process of setting up an ideal development environment on a Mac, I have recorded it here.

One of the goals I had with this blog was to make the maintenance and updates dead simple. Certainly, I could open up the Squeak image every time I want to add a post, but I wanted to be able to edit and create posts directly in the browser.

What follows is an open letter to PHP, with the reasons why I have decided to break up with it.

I have never learned anything about web analytics before. This year, my submission to Google Summer of Code for a Drupal module that makes use of the recently-released Google Analytics Data Export API was accepted. I have been doing a lot of reading about the vocabulary used, the methods of filtering data, etc.

Riddle me this: given the success of the Java programming language and object-oriented programming in general, why has no one heard of Smalltalk? Smalltalk is the first fully object-oriented language, older than the great K&R C itself.

The waterfall method of development is inherently broken. Applications evolve, requirements evolve, clients change their mind, and the web moves forward at an ever-accelerating pace.