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Scott Watermasysk

Simpable is the personal blog of Scott Watermasysk. The blog covers a variety of software and technology topics with a focus on simplicity. Scott has worked on a variety of large scale ASP.Net applications over the years and uses Simpable as his main venue to share what he has learned and discuss those lessons with the community.

Simpable | 12 Aug 2010 09:49

Flexibility and Power

Scott Watermasysk writes "....Flexibility and Power: Flexibility is the ability to change how software works; power is the ability to do more with less effort...."
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Simpable | 27 Jul 2010 10:31

Scarcity in Design

Scott Watermasysk writes "....Great interview of Fred Brooks in the August 2010 Wired magazine (sorry, no link at this time). The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you think that very often is not money. For example, in..."
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Simpable | 20 Jul 2010 02:58

Ocean City Maryland

Scott Watermasysk writes "....The red sun. Permalink | Leave a comment »..."
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Simpable | 19 Jul 2010 17:29

DogFish Head Advertising

Scott Watermasysk writes "....If you are hiring, I could sell a ton of this stuff. Permalink | Leave a comment »..."
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Simpable | 19 Jul 2010 17:28

Smoking in Maryland

Scott Watermasysk writes "....Way to stick it to the smokers Maryland. Permalink | Leave a comment »..."
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Simpable | 12 Jul 2010 10:34

"Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else."

Scott Watermasysk writes "....“Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else.” - Gary Tan..."
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Simpable | 09 Jul 2010 06:38

Lost Time

Scott Watermasysk writes "....Lost Time: The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work...."
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Simpable | 08 Jul 2010 13:01

Derek Sivers - My Loss

Scott Watermasysk writes "....Derek Sivers - My Loss: We all underestimate our ability to massively change our life when it’s gone off track...."
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Simpable | 08 Jul 2010 06:45

Reading PDF eBooks on an iPad

Scott Watermasysk writes "....The recent update to iBooks added PDF support. Unfortunately, the reading experience is no where near as good as the epub experience. This was a bummer for me since I own quite a few eBooks in PDF format (and converting them to epub does not yield..."
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Simpable | 25 Jun 2010 06:35

A really interesting look at the design decisions in FireFox 4...

Scott Watermasysk writes "....A really interesting look at the design decisions in FireFox 4 for moving tabs to the top of the main window...."
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Scott Watermasysk

Telligent Systems

Monroe Township, NJ, USA

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) Clay is looking very interesting http://bit.ly/94fsy5 about 2 hours ago from bitly

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) I am pretty Unfuddle is now ajax'ing ajax requests. #webscaleftw about 2 hours ago from web

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) @evolvingWe not sure what you mean, but it is a great book http://amzn.to/axPOeT about 5 hours ago from web

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) @subdigital it generates a PDF, so I guess you could use it with Evernote. about 5 hours ago from web

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) Law #9 of Simplicity - Some things can never be made simple. about 5 hours ago from web

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) Genius Scan is a killer iPhone app for managing receipts. Hat tip to @evolvingwe for the recommendation. about 5 hours ago from web

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) Liking the MacLife iPad app. about 17 hours ago from Twitter for iPad

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) @jaymed organic is definitely not made for web scale. about 19 hours ago from Twitter for iPad

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) @andrewbg a decent business card holder does the trick for now. about 19 hours ago from Twitter for iPad

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) @JimHolmes hater. :) 1 day ago from Proxlet

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) Really want the TwelveSouth Compass Stand. Really don't want to spend $40. Any suggestions? 1 day ago from Proxlet

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) @joemorel @mgroves 7:40 means 7:40. 1 day ago from Proxlet

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) OH: well you know south west Texas is like Mecca. #onlyintexas 1 day ago from Proxlet

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) OH: I shot 7. you? I got four. Would have got more at night. I am going to shoot a lot more on the weekend. #onlyintexas 1 day ago from Proxlet

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) OH: I only shot four #onlyintexas 1 day ago from Proxlet

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) OH: my liver was hurting yesterday. 1 day ago from Proxlet

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) @joemorel Friday's in Terminal E FTW. :) 1 day ago from Proxlet

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) First Oktoberfest of the year. It is 5 o'clock somewhere. :) 1 day ago from Proxlet

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