I’m kinda getting tired of the Mac crowd. BTW — I am typing this on a Mac. I use a Mac because that’s what I have at home. It’s OK I guess. For work I have a Windows notebook. It’s OK I guess. Mac people definitely look down their snout at anyone else, even Linux […]
I’ve been re-reading the classic Mythical Man Month and working on a new team with a PM inexperienced in my field and have come up with some compelling observations about how things have changed since the first iteration of MMM had been written in 1975 — some 36 years ago. The most obvious is that […]
I just bought an Atrix from my carrier, AT&T. It’s a groundbreaking device: dual core processor, 1 gig ram, HDMI port. The battery life is stupendous. Anyway, first day I made a simple app from a sample I found. You can use either Eclipse, or NetBeans to make an Android app. Here’s the developer setup […]
Last week I was faced with a dilemma I run into on projects that are just gearing up their process. The dilemma may sound simple, but it this: when is it OK to log defects? Now some of you may think this is a stupid question and answer “ALWAYS OF COURSE!” But I heartily disagree. […]
The other day I got to meet up with a UI developer who works on the sphere of HTML, Javascript, and CSS. I am working on a back end that I inherited from another consulting company; its a Java stack and requires a deployment for changes. The UI guy looked at me and asked about […]
I’ve had this problem for quite a while. I use Zim as a personal wiki to keep all my notes for work and my projects (like an Agile book I am working on) and I like to version it. Also, I need to access the Zim notebooks from several places (like different computers) and on […]
I’ve been having discussions with developers at other job sites and listened as they tried to “make their mark” at the placer they were working. One of the developers had dropped in a new templating engine into a significantly large site – that already had a templating engine. This person did it because “that other […]
I just got a new HP notebook at work (its running XP). No kidding. Anyway, during the interchange-with-desktop services guy time, he glanced at my MacBook and then he told me something quite interesting: Apparently, Apple is putting special screws into all the external cases etc. to which only THEY have a screwdriver for. And, […]
I was talking with a PM at another company the other day who was insistent that their tech wiki pages reside in Sharepoint. I have been to places like that before and it sucks and this is why, in a nutshell: Sharepoint wiki functionality sucks. Usability SUCKS. Its not fluid, it doesn’t support full wiki […]
Browsers aren’t something that’s been all that important to me. Compared to most people I probably know a little too much but all’s I want is for something to work, and to need minimal upgrades. I like to have a few browsers around for development because it allows me to have two isolated sessions like […]