I know I'm not the first and I certainly won't be the last, but I've decided to review Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks anyway. Unless you are in the technology realm, you probably haven't heard of it. Even if you are in the technology realm, you might not have heard of it. Therefore, it […]
I turned on the ads for the blog this morning. After choosing a reasonable color scheme and inserting the block into Drupal, I noticed something. Click around and see if you notice it. Due to my partner's initials (not to be repeated here), on many of the pages, advertisements for a particular band are displayed. […]
May you have a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and/or a Happy Hannukah. Just another update, the Mantis/dotproject integration is frozen until tomorrow, then work will begin again. As I have found in the detailed logs, there are many people finding this site due to mentions of SugarCRM – a very effective single organization CRM […]
Agile Methodologies, Evolutionary Development, Test Driven Development, Waterfall, etc have nothing on my brand new development methodology: Guess & Check. Yes, you've heard me right, Guess & Check Development. It's much simpler than any of the other practices. It doesn't require requirements. It doesn't require testing. It doesn't even require customer involvement… as long as […]
Well, the new hosting provider is online (Thanks Joel!) so there is some potential downtime coming within the next week or so. I've got everything set up on that end, I just need to flip the switches, but I'm not going to be watching very carefully once I go on vacation next week. Oh yeah, […]
Just like everyone else, I've applied and interviewed for a development job or ten. You know the situation… you kick off your resume, get a time for an interview, walk in with another copy of your resume, and talk about your past projects. If the interviewer subscribes to the Microsoft Model of interviewing, they may […]
For those of you who haven't seen this article, check it out. Essentially, a lawyer is working to convince the Court that software can be protected adequately via Patents instead of Copyrights. This article does not say who he is working for or who is aligned on each side of the case, but I have […]
A few months ago, I was at a Christian Leadership Conference by the Willow Creek Association where a slightly-hyper-Brit by the name of Marcus Buckingham spoke about his book: Now, Discover Your Strengths or simply NDYS. He discussed leadership patterns across different companies, the satisfaction of individuals within organizations, how these affect motivation and effectiveness, […]
So I guess I finally admit it, I'm weak. After last week's whirlwind adventure and 60+ hours of working, I took the weekend off from posting mostly to rest, recuperate, and experience the joy of various Christmas Parties. No, I have no shame in saying it because that's what they were. Anyway, CEO and I […]
We've all seen it, we've all been stuck in it. You look at an application, a widget, a feature, or a class and you think “Why did they do THAT? I could do this much better myself!” Quite often you might be right. There is all kinds of crap code out there. No way to […]