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 […]
I wanted to collect things I know about the health care process into an application and decided a Grails app running on Google App Engine would be a fun way to go. This is how I got things launched, and you might be able to use this for your app. The reason I chose the […]
Recently I was having a discussion about NoSQL and Relational Databases. The positions are so divided. It always harkens back to the day when parallel and linear processing were raging in battle against each other. So tell me, do you multi-thread your apps that much? How about in a method? Why not? right. Cause you […]
I was looking around on the job boards when I saw an ad for an “Iteration Manager”: POSITION SUMMARY – ITERATION MANAGER The Iteration Manager is responsible for the delivery of the development iterations: – Scrum certified preferred – lead daily scrums – lead quick starts – ensure team collaboration and iteration goals are met […]