Also, books on Extreme Programming have a lot to say on office setup.
Ultimately your setup should reflect your work culture and project structure. XP likes open spaces, lots of space around desks, areas to relax, and little segregation. Other practices may benefit from different setups.
I'd consider reading at least of "Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck.
Hmm. Good point.
I have to admit I didn't think about that.
That said, if yours and Apple's definition of "dead battery" is different, you may have trouble. Also, if my battery is dead after 13 months (I bought mine before the extended warranty program), I still won't be happy.
Point taken however.
iPod's battery isn't user-serviceable if you want to keep your warranty.
Even worse, originally they wanted to charge like $250 to replace it...ie, iPod is disposable, because for $250 (in 18 months time, when the battery dies) you can get a better iPod with a new battery. See here for more. (WMA movie [sorry] + link to text info)
It's only the result of immense public pressure and a load of lawsuits that have made Apple change their stance and give us a $99 replacement service.
I have an iPod myself and it gets 2-5 hours of use a day (at work mostly) and I'm pretty worried about the battery - Aus$670 is a lot of money for us students.
Don't get me wrong, it's totally sweet to use and it has changed the way I listen to music (of course, don't trust me, I'm hardly Dr. iPod), but if I'm paying US$99 to get the battery changed in 18 months I will be mighty pissed.
A search of Google News reveals that the only reputable newsfeed reporting this groudbreaking story is, in fact, Slashdot.
Can we really believe this? As the story says, this should be huge news. Can anyone who has the files confirm that they do indeed look remotely like one would imagine the Windoze code to look like (hint: look for the holes).
I can't comment on planner... but I can on Mr. Project.
Last year I worked on a simulated software project as part of my studies. I chose MS Project, a friend tried Mr. Project.
All we had to do was produce Gantt Charts and a schedule: pretty basic. A bit of resource allocation.
I spent a *long* time learning the mysteries of MS Project but got there in the end, it was like using a bulldozer to move a sandcastle, but I got there.
My friend found that Mr. Project was so bugridden it was unusable; he upgraded to a later version and found it was even worse. In the end he wrote his own program to produce Gantt charts.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for OSS (we developed/deployed on LAMP), but when you need programs to work reliably, sometimes there just aren't options. As I say, Planner may be great, as may a future version of Mr. Project.:)
~ Tim
What is also interesting is the quality of results, and just how relatively *commercial* they are.
One (probably biased) example - search for 'jakarta struts' on each site.
Google: first hit is jakarta.apache.org/struts/, the official site and (I'm ranting) a source of good, _free_ documentation on Struts.
MSN: jakarta.apache.org doesn't feature in the first 15 results (I didn't look further). In fact, every one of the 15 results is a commercial site, mostly concerned with books about Struts.
Which one of these is more useful (and dare I say it, honest)? Which one has a commercial bias?
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Also, books on Extreme Programming have a lot to say on office setup.
Ultimately your setup should reflect your work culture and project structure. XP likes open spaces, lots of space around desks, areas to relax, and little segregation. Other practices may benefit from different setups.
I'd consider reading at least of "Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck.
(How come <ecode> doesn't preserve whitespace?!)
Not that it makes any difference, Java was never gonna do well and is totally inappropriate for scripting, but there ya go.
--Tim
Parent is +3 Insightful?? WTF?
This is a math joke...and not a bad one. I moderate +i, Funny.
What's that you say? We should be free-thinking and make our own laws??
I imagine our politicians would say we do, but their heads are too buried up Dubya's @#$% for them to say anything...
Hmm. Good point. I have to admit I didn't think about that. That said, if yours and Apple's definition of "dead battery" is different, you may have trouble. Also, if my battery is dead after 13 months (I bought mine before the extended warranty program), I still won't be happy. Point taken however.
iPod's battery isn't user-serviceable if you want to keep your warranty.
Even worse, originally they wanted to charge like $250 to replace it...ie, iPod is disposable, because for $250 (in 18 months time, when the battery dies) you can get a better iPod with a new battery. See here for more. (WMA movie [sorry] + link to text info)
It's only the result of immense public pressure and a load of lawsuits that have made Apple change their stance and give us a $99 replacement service.
I have an iPod myself and it gets 2-5 hours of use a day (at work mostly) and I'm pretty worried about the battery - Aus$670 is a lot of money for us students.
Don't get me wrong, it's totally sweet to use and it has changed the way I listen to music (of course, don't trust me, I'm hardly Dr. iPod), but if I'm paying US$99 to get the battery changed in 18 months I will be mighty pissed.
~ Tim
A search of Google News reveals that the only reputable newsfeed reporting this groudbreaking story is, in fact, Slashdot.
Can we really believe this? As the story says, this should be huge news. Can anyone who has the files confirm that they do indeed look remotely like one would imagine the Windoze code to look like (hint: look for the holes).
Something worth considering, anyway.
I can't comment on planner ... but I can on Mr. Project.
Last year I worked on a simulated software project as part of my studies. I chose MS Project, a friend tried Mr. Project.
All we had to do was produce Gantt Charts and a schedule: pretty basic. A bit of resource allocation.
I spent a *long* time learning the mysteries of MS Project but got there in the end, it was like using a bulldozer to move a sandcastle, but I got there.
My friend found that Mr. Project was so bugridden it was unusable; he upgraded to a later version and found it was even worse. In the end he wrote his own program to produce Gantt charts.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for OSS (we developed/deployed on LAMP), but when you need programs to work reliably, sometimes there just aren't options. As I say, Planner may be great, as may a future version of Mr. Project. :)
~ Tim
What is also interesting is the quality of results, and just how relatively *commercial* they are.
One (probably biased) example - search for 'jakarta struts' on each site.
Google: first hit is jakarta.apache.org/struts/, the official site and (I'm ranting) a source of good, _free_ documentation on Struts.
MSN: jakarta.apache.org doesn't feature in the first 15 results (I didn't look further). In fact, every one of the 15 results is a commercial site, mostly concerned with books about Struts.
Which one of these is more useful (and dare I say it, honest)? Which one has a commercial bias?
Food for thought.
~ Tim