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Re:forgive me for being ingnorant
but what are these flash drives and optical disks containing viruses that autorun when you plug them in? do they come in the mail like AOL disks?
No, we buy them in bulk and leave them in your parking lot. Then some idiot picks it up and sticks it into their PC inside the network. One network admin and it's in the root of a share. The next morning when everybody logs in all your base are belong to us. One successful attach is worth a hundred plants but there's always a chance you'll jackpot with some MCSE who should not have been hired.
They're cheap so it's affordable to sprinkle them around the bathrooms at trendy clubs, leave them on the bar at the country club, wherever they might get picked up and used by somebody with good access to money and/or information. Shiny ones work best for money targets, civil servants and soldiers, but with network admins and engineers we get a higher attach rate with this one.
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Re:A book I thought was good
I think lawpoop is confused. He keeps calling it "project management", but if you RTFA (I know...) he's actually asking about software engineering.
I'm currently taking a software engineering class and our assigned text is Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach. However, we've never opened it. My instructor says it's a "good reference", but he doesn't agree with everything in there. He teaches his own method, which he's developed while working as a software engineer for a large defense contractor for a couple decades, which he calls the "Heretic's Model".
That said, UML is non-intuitive at first, but useful once you learn it. Using modeling software can make it much easier to learn. I've mainly used Umbrello, but there are many others around. They should be able to import your existing code base and generate some of the diagrams automatically, assuming you're using a language your chosen app understands.
Ultimately though, a diagram's purpose is the help you understand what's going on. You can use any diagram style you like as long as it shows the information that you need. A good test of your diagram is if it makes sense to someone else once you explain what your symbols mean. If so, then it's useful. If not, some portion of the time you spent on it was wasted.
My basic rule for time estimates is to think about how long I think it will take and double it. I've never been a project manager, that's just how I come up with the numbers I give my PM when asked, and the results have been surprisingly accurate.
One major thing to keep in mind: rework can become necessary at any stage of the product lifecycle, and can take you back to any previous stage of the lifecycle. Don't screw yourself over by trying to shortcut that. If you discover in testing that you need to make a change to the architecture, don't just change the code, go back and change the architecture docs first and make sure you don't have any cascade effects going on, and check whatever intermediate stages you have as well. You'll be sorry if you don't.
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Re:Not a hard prediction
"By definition skeptic has an open mind."
Yes. But not every *self-identified* skeptic really is one.
Dean Radin is a good introduction to this field. There really is something going on, it's not electromagnetically mediated, the best physical analogy we have for it is quantum entanglement (but that does NOT mean it IS a quantum effect, just that it behaves similarly in some respects).
There's actually been 150 years of good research (since the founding of the Society for Psychical Research) which is mind-boggling but is simply ignored most of the time. It's actually the reverse of the infamous 'file drawer problem' - the really good cases for psi are usually thrown away precisely *because* they're too good, they don't fit expectations.
No, it's not always reliably repeatable in individual cases. That's not a problem, it's just a feature of the territory. Neither is human genius (that's not just a red herring -- there are strong arguments that the functioning of extraordinary states of human creativity is very similar to the psychological states which facilitate psi).
Read the following for more information:
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Re:Not a hard prediction
"By definition skeptic has an open mind."
Yes. But not every *self-identified* skeptic really is one.
Dean Radin is a good introduction to this field. There really is something going on, it's not electromagnetically mediated, the best physical analogy we have for it is quantum entanglement (but that does NOT mean it IS a quantum effect, just that it behaves similarly in some respects).
There's actually been 150 years of good research (since the founding of the Society for Psychical Research) which is mind-boggling but is simply ignored most of the time. It's actually the reverse of the infamous 'file drawer problem' - the really good cases for psi are usually thrown away precisely *because* they're too good, they don't fit expectations.
No, it's not always reliably repeatable in individual cases. That's not a problem, it's just a feature of the territory. Neither is human genius (that's not just a red herring -- there are strong arguments that the functioning of extraordinary states of human creativity is very similar to the psychological states which facilitate psi).
Read the following for more information:
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Re:Not a hard prediction
"By definition skeptic has an open mind."
Yes. But not every *self-identified* skeptic really is one.
Dean Radin is a good introduction to this field. There really is something going on, it's not electromagnetically mediated, the best physical analogy we have for it is quantum entanglement (but that does NOT mean it IS a quantum effect, just that it behaves similarly in some respects).
There's actually been 150 years of good research (since the founding of the Society for Psychical Research) which is mind-boggling but is simply ignored most of the time. It's actually the reverse of the infamous 'file drawer problem' - the really good cases for psi are usually thrown away precisely *because* they're too good, they don't fit expectations.
No, it's not always reliably repeatable in individual cases. That's not a problem, it's just a feature of the territory. Neither is human genius (that's not just a red herring -- there are strong arguments that the functioning of extraordinary states of human creativity is very similar to the psychological states which facilitate psi).
Read the following for more information:
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Re:Not a hard prediction
Thank you!
Dean Radin is very interesting. His Entangled Minds is a good summary of research including autoganzfeld (which is one of the most promising I think).
Some more good books:
(A good entry-level roundup of the field)
(A serious textbook with biomedical and cognitive science arguments)
The short summary is: after 150 years of serious scientific investigation of the paranormal, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there IS an effect.
We just don't have a mechanism for it. But that's where science should *start*, right? Not by rejecting the evidence.
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Re:Not a hard prediction
Thank you!
Dean Radin is very interesting. His Entangled Minds is a good summary of research including autoganzfeld (which is one of the most promising I think).
Some more good books:
(A good entry-level roundup of the field)
(A serious textbook with biomedical and cognitive science arguments)
The short summary is: after 150 years of serious scientific investigation of the paranormal, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there IS an effect.
We just don't have a mechanism for it. But that's where science should *start*, right? Not by rejecting the evidence.
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Re:Not a hard prediction
Thank you!
Dean Radin is very interesting. His Entangled Minds is a good summary of research including autoganzfeld (which is one of the most promising I think).
Some more good books:
(A good entry-level roundup of the field)
(A serious textbook with biomedical and cognitive science arguments)
The short summary is: after 150 years of serious scientific investigation of the paranormal, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there IS an effect.
We just don't have a mechanism for it. But that's where science should *start*, right? Not by rejecting the evidence.
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Re:First Amendment Apple better KNOCK this
Yes, MSFT "owns" the OS, but the BIG difference is they don't "own" the hardware. And frankly I think it is debatable which is more evil. I remember what is was like before, where your Vic wouldn't talk to your TRS 80 which wouldn't talk to your IBM, etc. But frankly ANYBODY can write a Windows driver. I have seen more weird shit come out in the last 15 years or so, all because it was butt simple to write a Windows driver for any weird ass piece of hardware you could dream up. I mean you can even put a fricking cassette deck in your PC!
The point is before MSFT sold MS-DOS to Compaq, the entire PC world was "welcome to proprietary land" where nothing worked with anybody else and it was all crazy expensive. And now that the PC ecosystem has matured Linux(and BSD, and Haiku,etc) can take advantage of that to give us even more choice. Do most PCs come with Windows? Yep, because that is what folks want. They WANT to play their games, or have that nice shiny disc they got at the Wally World work, or have their printer/scanner/fax without praying to the Gods of CLI. If Apple would have won we would probably still have $3000+ machines that only those with serious cash could afford. Now I can slap together a machine with frankly insane power for less than $400. To me that is progress.
So as much as I HATE what that marketing ass monkey Ballmer is trying to push in 400 fricking versions, I still give credit where credit was due. If it wasn't for Darth Gates making it so it didn't matter whether I bought Dell, or HP, or Packard Bell(remember those), or Gateway,etc that everything worked as long as it had the Windows symbol on it things would be VERY different. Because I remember what it was like before MSFT, and frankly it really, REALLY sucked. If you think Apple makes great PCs, fine. I agree completely. Ferrari makes damned nice roadsters too, I can't afford those either.
But at least now I have choice. I can run WinXP(my choice) or Vista, I can run Linux, or BSD, or thanks to the wonders of the Internet I can even run a hacked version of OSX on generic hardware if I wanted to. But we probably wouldn't have that choice if Darth Gates hadn't screwed over IBM all those years ago. And looking at their actions I would have to say that Darth Jobs is JUST as nasty as Darth Gates, he just has less money but MUCH better taste.
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Re:There is NO way for them to pay
I wanted to use Amazon Payments on my Buy-Proxy website, but I can't setup an account as I don't live in the US. Apparently, the UK is not good enough. I have a standard Amazon Account, that's not the problem, I can't setup an Amazon Payments account without a US Address.
I wanted to use Google Payments on another site, but they have decided that as I'm UK based, I can only make transactions in £'s and I need to be able to sell in Euro's and US $'s. PayPal makes that simple, and handle the exchange rate for me. Google have made it almost impossible. So I only use Google Payments for 1 out of 5 products on the site.
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This is why class-action is stupid
So Google commits the most blatant act of copyright infringement in the history of mankind - basically stealing 7 million books and posting them on the Internet (with "limitations", which will be quickly circumvented with some clever Google "mash-up"). Someone steps forward, claims to represent the entire class of authors who has been wronged, accepts a pitiful "settlement" (well, it's pitiful if you are one of 7 million authors who are going to be paid $60 for your hard work, the $30 million cut for the lawyers is pretty impressive), and now the authors have two choices:
1. Accept a really crappy deal.
2. Sue one of the largests corporations on Earth, which can point to the 6.99 million plus other authors who took (or at least, didn't opt out of) the lousy deal and say, "This is what everyone else thought these rights were worth."Meanwhile, a 12-year old downloads a crappy pop song onto her grandparent's blueberry iMac, and the RIAA gets to extort thousands of dollars out of dear old Grandma.
Why is "Hit Me Baby One More Time" worth so much more than something like "Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage"? And if it isn't, why can a bunch of lawyers step in for 7 million people and accept a crappy deal?
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Re:Release it anyway
http://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Hitler-Unnecessary-War-Britain/dp/030740515X Hitler, Churchill, and the Unnecessary War WWII is more controversial now than ever, and I am convinced we did (mostly) wrong things in order to win. Just ask the victims of Dresden, or Hiroshima. The only difference between Guernica and Dresden is who's writing.
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Re:Cowards.
I disagree. My grandfather landed on the beach in Okinawa as a US Marine and I've spent a lot of time trying to understand what he must have gone through.
Reading With The Old Breed while I played through CoD5 was at times a very sobering and insightful experience. Obviously I don't think I "understand what war is really like" if I did, I would have that 1000 yard stare so common to those soldiers.
I don't know if my grandpa would approve or not but I found it to be a very interesting experience that gave me some insight.
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Re:Not good enough.
But where can you find a 50GB bluray disc for 25 cents? Looks like about 25 bucks for a 50GB disc to me, which is 50 cents/GB. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BD-RDL-Recordable-Dual-Layer/dp/B000H4FO9G/ref=pd_bxgy_e_text_c
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Re:Torrents should be the router's job
Ok, 8 GB is cheap, now what?
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Extraordinary Claims Require Xtraordinary Evidence
There are no standard dosing regimens for LSD. In the US it is a S1 controlled substance with no recognised medical benefit. There is no way YttriumOxide could substantiate this claim and it is obviously a personal opinion that cannot be verified by any objective measure. LSD, Still With Us After All These Years is an old (mid-1990s) but quite well researched book that examines in some depth, using primary sources and research, the consequences of varying amounts of LSD ingestion and the symptoms of LSD intoxication in terms of dose-response, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics.
By contrast, soundguy made a very specific claim about the etiology of the mental illness of a large portion of the in patient mental health population. That is a claim that can and should either be backed up by objective data, or admitted as also personal opinion or speculation.
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Re:How much is your time worth
I only use this - http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM [amazon.com]
I wonder how much extra is the gift-wrapping...
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Re:How much is your time worth
Inferior piece of shit.
I only use this - http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM
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Re:How much is your time worth
Come on. You need to be using these.
I mean, how are you going to put the arrows on a handmade cable? The electrons won't know which way to go!
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use cfengine or puppet
I can recommend this book (it uses cfengine extensively): Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition
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Re:Netflix
I haven't had cable television in 7 years. I don't miss it. For the money I save, I
* Netflix
* Go to the movies
* Pay for the newspaper
* Pay the late fees on my library books
* Pay admission to museumsAt the end of the day, cable isn't offering us anything we can't see already on Netflix or on youtube or hulu et al. So really -- why pay $700/yr or whatever when we can watch all the programming that we really like by pulling it instead of waiting for it to be pushed?
P.S. Take a Kill-A-Watt and check out how much electricity your cable box + DVR + ??? are using on standby and calculate the additional burden on your electric bill. I'd bet it's a combined 40W or so, good for another $50+ a year.
I've never had cable and rarely watch broadcast. I've been with Netflix since its creation. Last time I watched broadcast was when Obama was on Leno. I picked up a converter box at Fry's because it was cheap, but it's been at least a month and I have yet to plug it in. I'm starting to think I wsted the $9.99 I gave to Fry's.
Throw in one of these, and live broadcast is completely unnecessary, except possibly for emergency broadcasts when internet is down.
The cable adapter takes no juice at all. Imagine the savings if you got all your shows with your computer.
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Re:Netflix
I haven't had cable television in 7 years. I don't miss it. For the money I save, I
* Netflix
* Go to the movies
* Pay for the newspaper
* Pay the late fees on my library books
* Pay admission to museumsAt the end of the day, cable isn't offering us anything we can't see already on Netflix or on youtube or hulu et al. So really -- why pay $700/yr or whatever when we can watch all the programming that we really like by pulling it instead of waiting for it to be pushed?
P.S. Take a Kill-A-Watt and check out how much electricity your cable box + DVR + ??? are using on standby and calculate the additional burden on your electric bill. I'd bet it's a combined 40W or so, good for another $50+ a year.
I've never had cable and rarely watch broadcast. I've been with Netflix since its creation. Last time I watched broadcast was when Obama was on Leno. I picked up a converter box at Fry's because it was cheap, but it's been at least a month and I have yet to plug it in. I'm starting to think I wsted the $9.99 I gave to Fry's.
Throw in one of these, and live broadcast is completely unnecessary, except possibly for emergency broadcasts when internet is down.
The cable adapter takes no juice at all. Imagine the savings if you got all your shows with your computer.
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Netflix
I haven't had cable television in 7 years. I don't miss it. For the money I save, I
* Netflix
* Go to the movies
* Pay for the newspaper
* Pay the late fees on my library books
* Pay admission to museumsAt the end of the day, cable isn't offering us anything we can't see already on Netflix or on youtube or hulu et al. So really -- why pay $700/yr or whatever when we can watch all the programming that we really like by pulling it instead of waiting for it to be pushed?
P.S. Take a Kill-A-Watt and check out how much electricity your cable box + DVR + ??? are using on standby and calculate the additional burden on your electric bill. I'd bet it's a combined 40W or so, good for another $50+ a year.
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Re:How is this news?
Just go watch "Pirates of Silicon Valley".
As entertaining as that made for TV movie was for people who already knew some of the history, I think it would be better to recommend the movie's source material, Paul Freiberger's Fire in the Valley . The movie strips the whole colourful story of 1970s Silicon Valley down to Gates and Jobs, leaving out the many other important personalities involved.
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Re:I'm more interested in the governance than in m
While I'm all for good mathematical modeling, the notion that our financial problems are caused by bad math is a distraction at best.
Do not arouse the wrath of the great and powerful Oz!
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. -
Re:I'm more interested in the governance than in m
While I'm all for good mathematical modeling, the notion that our financial problems are caused by bad math is a distraction at best.
Do not arouse the wrath of the great and powerful Oz!
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. -
The rise of Behavioral Economics
The economics blogs have been talking about this issue for a while. All of the blogs that saw this coming for years (like CalculatedRisk) are very anti-quant.
What we are seeing is a push for the study of behavioral economics, as seen in the popular new book Animal Spirits. This book is being heavily quoted by Obama's Budget Director Peter Orszag.
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Interesting Coindicence
Interesting that this pops up shortly after the release of this book.
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Re:Pleo? Ugobe?
A couple days ago these things were on Amazon for $89.
Looks like they decided to jack the price up because of all the publicity.
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Re:Linux
Of course, there are other (probably easier) ways to escape virtualization as well
Interesting. I suspect Amazon might like to know about this.
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Re:Duh!
Soon we no longer need actors and we just need digitized versions of them.
So we may see new movies with Bogart, Wayne, Hepburn, Garbo and many others.
Oh, you mean Remake: http://www.amazon.com/Remake-Connie-Willis/dp/0553374370/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240514628&sr=8-16
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Recommended booksI think these books are a great starting place to learn how a good manager operates.
- The Career Programmer is written mostly from the programmer's perspective, but gives a lot of advice on how managers and programmers can work together to achieve the project's goals.
- Software Project Survival Guide has a lot of good information on how to run a successful project.
- The Mythical Man-Month has been around for a long time, and has a lot of good management advice.
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Recommended booksI think these books are a great starting place to learn how a good manager operates.
- The Career Programmer is written mostly from the programmer's perspective, but gives a lot of advice on how managers and programmers can work together to achieve the project's goals.
- Software Project Survival Guide has a lot of good information on how to run a successful project.
- The Mythical Man-Month has been around for a long time, and has a lot of good management advice.
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Recommended booksI think these books are a great starting place to learn how a good manager operates.
- The Career Programmer is written mostly from the programmer's perspective, but gives a lot of advice on how managers and programmers can work together to achieve the project's goals.
- Software Project Survival Guide has a lot of good information on how to run a successful project.
- The Mythical Man-Month has been around for a long time, and has a lot of good management advice.
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Quite a few, actually.And how many of those people running Photoshop actually paid for it?
Photoshop Elements 7 for XP and Vista at $70 currently ranks #4 in software sales at Amazon.com.
The geek never quite grasps the notion that publishers like Adobe compete for the mass market as well as the pro.
The alternative to the GIMP isn't Photoshop at $700 - it is Paint Shop Pro at $40 after the mail-in rebate.
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Re:Apparently...
If that's the case, then why does research show that people in those countries have a relative economic mobility equal to or greater than those in the United States? It would seem that the policies in the countries that the grandparent cited are affording their citizens more freedom to achieve their goals and values, if the data is any indication.
Have you read Watership Down? Your comment reminds me of the rabbit farm, in which all the rabbits live happily and are well-fed, but occasionally have to give up one of their own to be slaughtered. The situations are equivalent in that the rights of certain individuals are being sacrificed to benefit everyone else. That the majority somehow fares better as a result is no justification for the means of their affluence. This is the sacrifice of the minority to the majority. For people to be truly free means that everyone has that freedom, not simply that the majority do.
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Re:Sorry dudes...
Lucky for you man created Amazon.com for replacing woman in this natural cycle of life. You can subscribe to Fish sticks like their other grocery products and it will automatically charge you and ship fish sticks to your door on a regular basis!
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Re:A book I thought was good
After a long spell away from project management, I bought a few books to catch up on what I'd missed. I did read the Art of Project Management, but I wasn't that mesmerized by it (though I did start following Scott Berkun's blog). It felt too sterile and academic as a starting point. Maybe it's better if you're already in the thick of it, and maybe the new edition is cleaner.
What did mesmerize me was Agile Estimating and Planning, by Mike Cohn, who also has a good blog. It's quick reading, in an appropriately lightweight style, and it introduces all the concepts of agile planning (independent of Scrum, XP, etc) in a way that... that...
Well, remember that one professor you had, who taught you biology by deriving it from chemistry from physics from mathematics? Cohn explains agile planning from first principles, in a way that made me wonder how we spent two decades not realizing how obvious it was. My forehead hurt from all the slapping. Of course! Why are we forcing humans to estimate time and to calibrate their estimates? All we know is "hard" and "easy"; estimate in points, track your velocity, and let a smart computer figure out what that means in weeks. Of course! We don't need to plan hour-by-hour for dates 18 months away; we don't even know what we'll consider important than.
If you're considering agile methodologies, you must buy this book. If you're considering traditional top-down/waterfall planning, do yourself a favor - just slap your forehead every day. It'll build up calluses for when you buy the book later.
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Re:RESTfully deficient
My favorite start point is RailsSpace because it does a better job at introducing the basic concepts of Ruby than the other tutorials out there. I tried "Agile Web Development With Rails" for a while and learned much faster once I switched.
I think the name is poorly chosen - it uses a social networking site as an example app to build, but the concepts are applicable anywhere.
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RESTfully deficient
I started trying to learn Rails with this book, but found the dearth of RESTful development methodology leaves this book almost completely useless. Best practices are important to learn especially when just starting out. I would recommend Simply Rails 2 as a much better starting point for the beginner. I switched over to Simply Rails 2 and it provided a much better foundation upon which to build a working knowledge of Ruby on Rails.
I am not alone in this assessment. Here is just two people that think the same thing.
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Re: Making things happen
Here's my 3 steps for getting started before buying a book or doing anything else:
1) I'd recommend talking to your team, individually, about what things on the project are most frustrating or could be improved.
2) In each conversation ask for their advice on what you can do, and also what they are willing to do or try
3) Based on your conversations, propose one simple change that has the best odds of both being accepted, and improving things. If the team has lots of conflicts, pick something very small. If there is too much dissension, pick something you can do with just one or two others.
4) Then make the change.
5) If things go poorly go back to #1.
6) If things go well, propose the next thing from #3.
But without talking to your team, and without establishing credibility and leadership, no book, degree, or IQ, will be of any use to you as a project manager. Start with your team first and earn their trust.
P.S. The book was originally called The art of project management. Making things happen is the 2nd edition, and heavily revised, version of the book.
- Scott Berkun, Author of Making Things Happen
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Re:Companies as competing Organisms
I recently picked up On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore. This book nicely illustrates your point. Fascinating read-- the guy running the company was a complete bastard. He had developed a 'survival' ethos, from his experience as a child in German concentration camps, and he carried this into the way he did business in his adult life.
For example-- he would contract with small suppliers, but then stretch out repaying them, so that when they were on the verge of bankruptcy, he could buy their entire company cheaply. This allowed Commodore to have some impressive vertical integration, like the acquisition of MOS Technology, the maker of the 6502 processor. He offered employees bonus packages for achieving certain goals, and when they did, he reneged on his promises. In other cases, he would knowingly set unreasonable deadlines so that when systems were not delivered on time, he could penalize his engineers.
The worst part is that after his employees left for poor treatment, he sued them! He clearly did this for vengeful purposes, and to discourage other engineers from leaving, because when the C64 group left, to work on a completely different product, Commodore brought a lawsuit against them for intellectual property theft without even knowing what it was they were working on!
As far as I can tell, Commodore mostly operated within the law, but they had no qualms about operating in whatever legal grey areas there were at the time. If it was unethical, it did not matter at all. Commodore destroyed the lives of many people who gave large chunks of their lives to the company, because the company made many promises they did not keep (which they shrewdly did not write on paper).
I agree that this is to be expected. Business should be expected to push everything to the limit, including the law. But we must also expect, then, that we have to scrupulously enforce the law when they do break it. I personally think that the best use of the government would be to encourage an environment where the 'greedy solution' is the one that best aligns with our standards for good behavior. -
Re:So I got a new sink.....
Found the link to Amazon for that thing somewhere in this thread. Some reviews are simply hilarious =)
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The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management
http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Forward-Project-Management-Portable/dp/0470247894
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Re:A book I thought was good
Another great book is The Art of Project Management, written by Scott Berkun and published by O'Reilly. The author was a PM at Microsoft on IE and Windows teams but don't let that deter you. The book is full of great information, especially for someone new to managing development projects.
An excerpt from the book was posted here on Slashdot back in 2005.
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Back to basics
1 - Start with PM basis: the book "Head First PMP" seems like a good start (and yes I read it)
2 - Go learn about Scrum/XP/etc that's what (I and a lot of people) to be the realistic approach for sw pm today, stay away from RUP/Waterfall, etc
Otherwise, a book I found nice is "Software project Survival Guide" http://www.amazon.com/Software-Project-Survival-Guide-Practices/dp/1572316217 even though it's a bit on the side of waterfall.
You could go directly to Scrum/XP but it's nice to learn about 'classic PM' first, it helps with vocabulary and the general idea.
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A book I thought was good
I recommend Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice) by Scott Berkun. Berkun has quite a bit of experience working on and managing teams. You can check out his blog for more info. and to get a taste of what his writing is like.
There are a ton of books out there - his blog has a sample chapter to read so you can see if this will work for you. I thought it was easy to read and covered quite a bit without getting bogged down. The table of contents breaks things down to a pretty low level - so that is another good way to see if it hits on what you need or if it might cover a lot of stuff you don't care about. I know I wish some of the people I've worked for had read it and took it to heart - especially the stuff about how not to annoy people. -
Re:Yes
Hey, on Amazon, for only USD$500 more, you can get one specially platinum-wrapped, with a free listening hat! What a steal! If you really want quality, you can even get one pre-burned in for a mere $2500! I'm glad that these great engineers have shared their valuable insights with us, so we can benefit from increased network throughput. The world should thank them.
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Re:Yes
Hey, on Amazon, for only USD$500 more, you can get one specially platinum-wrapped, with a free listening hat! What a steal! If you really want quality, you can even get one pre-burned in for a mere $2500! I'm glad that these great engineers have shared their valuable insights with us, so we can benefit from increased network throughput. The world should thank them.
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Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable
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Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable:
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