I get a lot of articles, emails, webinars invites from IEEE.
I am sick of Rockstars of Big Data Rockstars of IOT Rockstars of Wireless Rockstars of I-know-something-I think-you-don't-know-and-I'm-going-to-may-hay-while-the-Rockstar-shines.
Sheeesh!
I have a filter that puts any email with Rockstar in the subject in the trash bin.
SO does have some good insight into Oracle and Microsoft (What I code in) problem/solutions. There are also some really good questions asked that don't get answered though. If MS could just add some relevant examples to their documentation or have good answers on their forums, I would start with their sites. Also, has anyone checked to see if Bing really is better for MS specific searches?
Just give us $12.00 (USD) per gallon gas! We don't need another IRS. Then the people with money and no sense would continue to drive their Hummers and the creative among us would build vehicles that make our world work without oil..... And the rest of us will continue to ride our bicycles.
Jenifer Tidwell has a great site with Human Computer Interface Patterns. If you are using patterns for the rest of your code (and even if you are not), consider this: http://www.hcipatterns.org/
Now that XP has been "out there" for a while, does anybody have some war stories? It's interesting. The "war" has been with management. We showed our Project Manager a couple of the books (he actually READ them) and we were allowed to use XP. After our first project was successful, we have been trying to get official approval to develop using the methodology and it has been tough.
Does the reliance on incremental development and refactoring rather than a intricate, up-front design really work, or result in a big wad of band-aids? As with any approach the team must be disciplined to 1. Test First 2. Talk to each other 3. Ask for help when needed 4. Refactor mercilessly 5. Code the simplest thing that will work
You will probably say "of course!" to all of the above, but if you don't stay disciplined within the team, you will get into trouble.
Is pair programming OK, or do you sometimes get stuck with the nitpicker from hell who has to have every detail his own way? Pairing is great. If your goal is not well written simple software, you are not part of the team. You are the cowboy who is the reason the team is all working on Saturday to fix the sh*t you went off and wrote by yourself! (Ok, Ok, breathe....)
Is close involvement with the customer good, or does it just give them daily opportunities for endless bright ideas that prevent convergence? The customer wants an application as quickly as possible. They have a business need and don't want to have to wait 4 more months for their great ideas to be implemented. If they continue to think off the top of their heads, they probably didn't know what they wanted in the first place and it will take that extra 4 months to get it out of them and get it into the application anyway.
XP works. Our teams are 4 or 6 programmers with a tester. When we test first and give the tester something to test that is not fragile, we get much farther much faster than "code it and throw it" at the tester and hope it works.
And that's all I want.
Can I build a kernel with only those pieces I need to make my Pentium 233Mhz a kickass firewall AND THAT'S ALL?
If so, I'm all for it.
Especially if I don't have to learn the whole kernel to do so.
The next killer app will be the one that makes itself look like whatever the user is used to (M$ Office, Star Office, Netscape, IE, etc.) and slowly begins to transform itself into a more useful tool (in the developers eyes of course!) keeping the user happy all the way.
Get coding fellas!
Stand is the place where you live,
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't before
R.E.M.
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I get a lot of articles, emails, webinars invites from IEEE.
I am sick of
Rockstars of Big Data
Rockstars of IOT
Rockstars of Wireless
Rockstars of I-know-something-I think-you-don't-know-and-I'm-going-to-may-hay-while-the-Rockstar-shines.
Sheeesh!
I have a filter that puts any email with Rockstar in the subject in the trash bin.
What is a "postage stamp"?
SO does have some good insight into Oracle and Microsoft (What I code in) problem/solutions. There are also some really good questions asked that don't get answered though.
If MS could just add some relevant examples to their documentation or have good answers on their forums, I would start with their sites.
Also, has anyone checked to see if Bing really is better for MS specific searches?
ss
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. - JW
I worked for a .com as .com was going the way of the 1929 Stock Market.
Our HR manual had a section titled "Dress Code"
It Said:
We don't have a dress code. Don't be the reason we need one.
Ahhh. The sanity in those insane days!
What Would Duncan Count?
No......
Apple's WWDC is on. I would expect iPhone apps to spike now.
Just give us $12.00 (USD) per gallon gas!
We don't need another IRS.
Then the people with money and no sense would continue to drive their Hummers and the creative among us would build vehicles that make our world work without oil.....
And the rest of us will continue to ride our bicycles.
Maybe XP will save us from the end of the Mayan calendar!?!
Flash!!!!!
Senator admits [Industry of Choice] Industry helped write Pro-Industry Legislation.
Film at 11
God... what morons we are....
I get an "After work" buzz too, but it doesn't have anything to do with the air (other than it's NOT recycled cubicle air!)
You had me at APL!
Please give your $8B to Apple. THEY will know what to do with it!
Thanks,
Steve
Jenifer Tidwell has a great site with Human Computer Interface Patterns. If you are using patterns for the rest of your code (and even if you are not), consider this:
http://www.hcipatterns.org/
Black is the new Green!
... and the water is slowly heated to boiling, the Frog will become uncomfortable, but will not jump out of the water.
Moral: What stress? I don't feel any stress!
Any half-assed magic is indistinguishable from technology.
is STILL too much money for a phone call!
Question: When the Enterprise made a call down to Andalusian 3, who paid for the call?
Answer: NOBODY!
"I believe with all my heart that the pendulum will return, that ignorance will become unfashionable again one day"
1. We (I) aren't stupid enough to enjoy SciFi anymore.
2. It is really hard to write good SciFi now because of our lack of ignorance.
... as will all the other "good" psychics out there with a few Dollars (Euros?) in their pocket.
In fact, maybe we should start a new kind of Psychic Hotline and parlay all the predictions into bets... oh, sorry, investments in the PAM!
What a riot!
Funds Terrorism. As does Drug Money, Prostitution, Illegal Immigrant Smuggling and of Course working for any Fortune 100 Company! ... Puhlease!!!
Now that XP has been "out there" for a while,
does anybody have some war stories?
It's interesting. The "war" has been with management. We showed our Project Manager a couple of the books (he actually READ them) and we were allowed to use XP. After our first project was successful, we have been trying to get official approval to develop using the methodology and it has been tough.
Does the reliance on incremental development and
refactoring rather than a intricate, up-front
design really work, or result in a big wad of
band-aids?
As with any approach the team must be disciplined to
1. Test First
2. Talk to each other
3. Ask for help when needed
4. Refactor mercilessly
5. Code the simplest thing that will work
You will probably say "of course!" to all of the above, but if you don't stay disciplined within the team, you will get into trouble.
Is pair programming OK, or do you sometimes get
stuck with the nitpicker from hell who has to
have every detail his own way?
Pairing is great. If your goal is not well written simple software, you are not part of the team. You are the cowboy who is the reason the team is all working on Saturday to fix the sh*t you went off and wrote by yourself! (Ok, Ok, breathe....)
Is close involvement with the customer good, or
does it just give them daily opportunities for
endless bright ideas that prevent convergence?
The customer wants an application as quickly as possible. They have a business need and don't want to have to wait 4 more months for their great ideas to be implemented. If they continue to think off the top of their heads, they probably didn't know what they wanted in the first place and it will take that extra 4 months to get it out of them and get it into the application anyway.
XP works. Our teams are 4 or 6 programmers with a tester. When we test first and give the tester something to test that is not fragile, we get much farther much faster than "code it and throw it" at the tester and hope it works.
And that's all I want.
Can I build a kernel with only those pieces I need to make my Pentium 233Mhz a kickass firewall AND THAT'S ALL?
If so, I'm all for it.
Especially if I don't have to learn the whole kernel to do so.
is a wet baby!
The next killer app will be the one that makes itself look like whatever the user is used to (M$ Office, Star Office, Netscape, IE, etc.) and slowly begins to transform itself into a more useful tool (in the developers eyes of course!) keeping the user happy all the way.
Get coding fellas!
Stand is the place where you live,
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't before
R.E.M.