In an ideal world construction projects would be built: on time, within budget, and without unexpected events. Never happens. Why? Three reasons: (#1) mistakes and incompetence, (#2) poor coordination (and communication), and (#3) unexpected events.

I’ve always been in two minds about pundit and cancancan as authorization libraries. Ryan Bates championed the latter, which probably has a lot to do with its success. However, after using both, my conclusions are more fully formed: for simple use cases: both cancancan and pundit work equally well. But, for complex use cases, pundit’s better.

Webpacker is out, esbuild is in

We’re going to outline:

It’s a book about negotiation, written by a former hostage negotiator: Mr Chris Voss.

The company I work for, Tek1, undertook to do the steel work drawings for a sizable project: the West Coast Eagles Stadium. Huge variations were pending.

The following post assumes a basic understanding of server-side programming.

What is going on?

I’ll note down the key ideas of “The Design of Everyday things” by Don Norman, as I read them. And my own views of them. You can procure a copy at Amazon, or at other bookstores. (No commissions received btw).

The new supersedes the old at a frenetic pace: desktop PCs rendered typewriters obsolete, BlackBerries were routed by IPhones etc.