It all depends. I have moved from Austria to Australia with little more than a few bags and some stuff shipped after me and then from Australia to Canada with a full container with everything in it. The only thing we left behind was probably the car. The reason we did it is that shipping was paid for by the employer where as buying new stuff was not. More importantly buying a full house hold of stuff takes a lot of time and we did not want to bother with shopping. Packing it up was easy.
manfred
So how about selling passport wallets that have a metal mesh in the cover. So long as the passport is in the wallet and it is closed the faraday cage around it should make rfid reading impossible. Would that actually work?
That safes you for all situations until you cross borders. Then of course anybody standing near enough can read it.. more or less.
It amazing in what regular intervals Apple comes up with reasons for me not to buy an iPod or a Mac. Sure provides good entertainment to watch whats going on while using my Linux box;-)
Hm... I am Austrian and worked in Australia for a few years and I am now in Canada. In terms of leave this place is the worst. Unless you work in a government place you can count yourself lucky if you got more than 2 weeks to start off. Somehow companies seem to make a fuzz about your absence even if you take the hit in salary... bums on seats seems to count and there is just no culture to work around with better resource/staff management..
just my 2c.
I thnik the parent is implying that if the coders find that the specs need to be modified because they needed more detail or they needed to be modified to make any sense at all (which i find all the time).. you need to do so. Update the spec! The implementation and the documentation have to be in sync. Always.
There is lots to say about design documents but one thing I always find to be lacking is how up to date the documents are. Mostly they are written for some sort of release and then left untouched again until the next one. That's bad. Enforce that any change to the software in terms of features and requirements has to be documented as part of the implementation task. No bug or change requests gets closed without the documentation being done and being up to date...
Hard to achieve but once you documentation is concise AND up to date you will be a great step closer...
Geez... another reason not to drink Budweiser so called beer. I still prefer real beer brewed following the Reinheitsgebot . No other stuff... certainly not rice. If you wanna use rice.. call it something else.
This sounds very much like a workflow system to me. There are many out there. I am currently working with jbpm. Many have all sorts of plugins and can be programmed to do more. They also come with process definitions...
and on another note. To some extend build tools like ant can do things like that too...
In general it all depends on where you apply. Different companies will have a different focus and preference. It also changes a lot from country to country.
I applied for and found jobs in Austria, Australia and Canada. I have a base resume (short version) and a detailed curriculum vitae (long version). Normally I submit a custom tailored version of the resume with the stuff that is interesting for the employer and a custom made letter accompnaying the resume.
This gets the attention. In the letter I mention that my CV is available online in case they want more information and of course I am more than happy to tell them more in person;-)
And of course... everything is up to date all the time;-)
Oh and btw. spelling and grammar and proper layout are very important.
From a tool set point of view I use LaTeX and from that produce HTML, PDF, PS, OO and RTF. Once set up it is pretty easy that way.
Quite a while ago there was a great article and following discussion with lots of pointers on kuroshin.
Check it out. It motivated me to learn go a bit and play it against the computer here and there. I havent played against a real player yet though..
HAve a look at the different skins for PHProjekt. They are much nice than the default... and making a custom skin is not that hard either. If it is so simple to make a nice UI...
manfred
I couldn't agree more. I introduced PHProjekt at a past and my current employer. We use it for project management and time sheet tracking. It was easy to setup and works just fine.
If you dont like the default look (yeah.. its a bit plain) you can always install one of the available skins or make your own.
In terms of the calendaring I have to mention that you can flag events as public. I actually wrote an extension that allows you to display those public events on a separate calendar on a website (plain vanilla html or postnuke integration). This way you can publish your public events and function straight from the groupware. Check it out on my site.
You meant: Du solltest fliessend deutsch sprechen können.
And a bit of bavarian dialect is probably good too:
Du muast hoit sho a auf a bia geh kinna.
(You should be able to go for a beer as well). Oh and on that. Bavarian beer is not the same as the water version you mostly get in the US. And a glass is 500ml.
You can be certain that fluent written and spoken German will be a requirement. How would you otherwise work together with your team and more importantly talk to the future without the additional language barrier.
Doesnt that mean I could play any recordings as an ad to myself? And it would be totally legal to play without paying for the stream or whereever the file comes from?
You might be hard pressed to find this game as well as the many expansion but it sure is a lot of fun and a geek game. Programming robots to take part in a race of conveyor belts, pits and laser damages. WOW.
As far as I know the game is discontinued but the community is still out there. There is plenty of alternative board to download, new rule sets and so on if you go looking.
I have been using LaTex since forever.. written my Physics thesis in it and still use it for writing letters and stuff. It is just simpler since I have all my templates set up and dont need to worry about layouting at all anymore.
I have found that it is essential to have a good IDE (powerful editor). The ones I can recommend are either Vim or Emacs with the respective addons if you are already familiar with either of those editor or otherwise make sure you check out Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net/)if you run KDE (or anyhting else Linux that allows you to run KDE apps.. or even Cygwin) or under windows you have to check out WinEDT (http://www.winedt.com/ ).
And then of course the best resource for anything TeX is the CTAN network (CTAN: the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network http://www.ctan.org/). Lots of very useful stuff there.
Once you got the hang of LaTeX it will be hard for you to go back to a word processor thoguh;-)
in regards to unicycling you gotta check out Kris Holms web site. He is the best cross country unicyclist and does stuff on his unicycle I would not even think of on my mountain bike. His videos are truly awesome.. and he makes the best unicycles around too.
The open source web based groupware system PHProjekt includes project management, time tracking and request tracking. Reuqests can be submitted via the grouwpare web interface, via email and via forms on a separate web site. The system runs on PostgreSQL or MySQL and a few others...
manfred
I have been in a few places that experienced the growth and helped were I could. Just a few tips:
Prepare early -
You will have to keep things under control when everything starts to get faster. Prepare as much as you can BEFORE you start exploding. This includes project management, time tracking, office admin, staff introduction kits and so on. The more of these procedures that help you enhance you efficiency you have in place the easier you can grow. Once you start growing quickly you wont have the time to establish the procedures..
Focus on quality -
Never forget why you started to grow... because to do the right thing. Dont start pissing off your clients or other stupid things just because you got this other bigger client. This will bite you back.
Maintain good team environment -
Treat you people at least as well as you would want to be treated yourself. Only a low staff turnover can keep you under control.
Take it slow -
If you seem to loose control, slow down. Better grow a bit slower but keep things under control and deliver the right quality then grow fast and stuff up.
Look at the long term -
Always keep in mind where you want to go. It might be better to be a good small company than a shitty large one..
Get help -
There are a lot of people around that have done it before. Network with them, maybe hire someone.. take all the expierence you can get from others... listen..
I am sure there is a lot more... but these points will get you on track...
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It all depends. I have moved from Austria to Australia with little more than a few bags and some stuff shipped after me and then from Australia to Canada with a full container with everything in it. The only thing we left behind was probably the car. The reason we did it is that shipping was paid for by the employer where as buying new stuff was not. More importantly buying a full house hold of stuff takes a lot of time and we did not want to bother with shopping. Packing it up was easy. manfred
So how about selling passport wallets that have a metal mesh in the cover. So long as the passport is in the wallet and it is closed the faraday cage around it should make rfid reading impossible. Would that actually work?
That safes you for all situations until you cross borders. Then of course anybody standing near enough can read it.. more or less.
It amazing in what regular intervals Apple comes up with reasons for me not to buy an iPod or a Mac. Sure provides good entertainment to watch whats going on while using my Linux box ;-)
Hm... I am Austrian and worked in Australia for a few years and I am now in Canada. In terms of leave this place is the worst. Unless you work in a government place you can count yourself lucky if you got more than 2 weeks to start off. Somehow companies seem to make a fuzz about your absence even if you take the hit in salary ... bums on seats seems to count and there is just no culture to work around with better resource/staff management..
just my 2c.
Thats what I use all the time. It's great. Allows you to fix up tags and has all sort of goodies like favourite songs and so on. Works well for me.
No flame.. just an interested question to an insider. How much longer do you think CF will be around after Adobe bought out Macromedia?
I thnik the parent is implying that if the coders find that the specs need to be modified because they needed more detail or they needed to be modified to make any sense at all (which i find all the time) .. you need to do so. Update the spec! The implementation and the documentation have to be in sync. Always.
There is lots to say about design documents but one thing I always find to be lacking is how up to date the documents are. Mostly they are written for some sort of release and then left untouched again until the next one. That's bad. Enforce that any change to the software in terms of features and requirements has to be documented as part of the implementation task. No bug or change requests gets closed without the documentation being done and being up to date... Hard to achieve but once you documentation is concise AND up to date you will be a great step closer...
Geez ... another reason not to drink Budweiser so called beer. I still prefer real beer brewed following the Reinheitsgebot . No other stuff ... certainly not rice. If you wanna use rice.. call it something else.
I agree. A very highly motivating article/speech. I found it especially interesting how he focuses on platform agnostics. Run anywhere...
This sounds very much like a workflow system to me. There are many out there. I am currently working with jbpm. Many have all sorts of plugins and can be programmed to do more. They also come with process definitions ...
and on another note. To some extend build tools like ant can do things like that too...
In general it all depends on where you apply. Different companies will have a different focus and preference. It also changes a lot from country to country.
I applied for and found jobs in Austria, Australia and Canada. I have a base resume (short version) and a detailed curriculum vitae (long version). Normally I submit a custom tailored version of the resume with the stuff that is interesting for the employer and a custom made letter accompnaying the resume.
This gets the attention. In the letter I mention that my CV is available online in case they want more information and of course I am more than happy to tell them more in person ;-)
And of course... everything is up to date all the time ;-)
Oh and btw. spelling and grammar and proper layout are very important.
From a tool set point of view I use LaTeX and from that produce HTML, PDF, PS, OO and RTF. Once set up it is pretty easy that way.
Quite a while ago there was a great article and following discussion with lots of pointers on kuroshin. Check it out. It motivated me to learn go a bit and play it against the computer here and there. I havent played against a real player yet though ..
HAve a look at the different skins for PHProjekt. They are much nice than the default... and making a custom skin is not that hard either. If it is so simple to make a nice UI... manfred
I couldn't agree more. I introduced PHProjekt at a past and my current employer. We use it for project management and time sheet tracking. It was easy to setup and works just fine.
If you dont like the default look (yeah.. its a bit plain) you can always install one of the available skins or make your own.
In terms of the calendaring I have to mention that you can flag events as public. I actually wrote an extension that allows you to display those public events on a separate calendar on a website (plain vanilla html or postnuke integration). This way you can publish your public events and function straight from the groupware. Check it out on my site.
This job will be requiring a lot of work beyond technical stuff. You will need to speak german.
You meant: Du solltest fliessend deutsch sprechen können.
And a bit of bavarian dialect is probably good too:
Du muast hoit sho a auf a bia geh kinna.
(You should be able to go for a beer as well). Oh and on that. Bavarian beer is not the same as the water version you mostly get in the US. And a glass is 500ml.
Prost.
Sounds like a great job though.
You can be certain that fluent written and spoken German will be a requirement. How would you otherwise work together with your team and more importantly talk to the future without the additional language barrier.
Doesnt that mean I could play any recordings as an ad to myself? And it would be totally legal to play without paying for the stream or whereever the file comes from?
;-)
Just gotta hear that ad again
You might be hard pressed to find this game as well as the many expansion but it sure is a lot of fun and a geek game. Programming robots to take part in a race of conveyor belts, pits and laser damages. WOW.
As far as I know the game is discontinued but the community is still out there. There is plenty of alternative board to download, new rule sets and so on if you go looking.
Go Twitch!!
I have been using LaTex since forever .. written my Physics thesis in it and still use it for writing letters and stuff. It is just simpler since I have all my templates set up and dont need to worry about layouting at all anymore.
I have found that it is essential to have a good IDE (powerful editor). The ones I can recommend are either Vim or Emacs with the respective addons if you are already familiar with either of those editor or otherwise make sure you check out Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net/)if you run KDE (or anyhting else Linux that allows you to run KDE apps .. or even Cygwin) or under windows you have to check out WinEDT (http://www.winedt.com/ ).
And then of course the best resource for anything TeX is the CTAN network (CTAN: the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network http://www.ctan.org/). Lots of very useful stuff there.
Once you got the hang of LaTeX it will be hard for you to go back to a word processor thoguhAccording to Reuters the lunar job is a hoax, but qmail isn't. We will see..
in regards to unicycling you gotta check out Kris Holms web site. He is the best cross country unicyclist and does stuff on his unicycle I would not even think of on my mountain bike. His videos are truly awesome.. and he makes the best unicycles around too.
Check it out!
http://dangeruni.unicyclist.com/The open source web based groupware system PHProjekt includes project management, time tracking and request tracking. Reuqests can be submitted via the grouwpare web interface, via email and via forms on a separate web site. The system runs on PostgreSQL or MySQL and a few others ...
manfred
I have been in a few places that experienced the growth and helped were I could. Just a few tips:
Prepare early - You will have to keep things under control when everything starts to get faster. Prepare as much as you can BEFORE you start exploding. This includes project management, time tracking, office admin, staff introduction kits and so on. The more of these procedures that help you enhance you efficiency you have in place the easier you can grow. Once you start growing quickly you wont have the time to establish the procedures..
Focus on quality - Never forget why you started to grow... because to do the right thing. Dont start pissing off your clients or other stupid things just because you got this other bigger client. This will bite you back.
Maintain good team environment - Treat you people at least as well as you would want to be treated yourself. Only a low staff turnover can keep you under control.
Take it slow - If you seem to loose control, slow down. Better grow a bit slower but keep things under control and deliver the right quality then grow fast and stuff up.
Look at the long term - Always keep in mind where you want to go. It might be better to be a good small company than a shitty large one..
Get help - There are a lot of people around that have done it before. Network with them, maybe hire someone .. take all the expierence you can get from others... listen ..
I am sure there is a lot more... but these points will get you on track ...