I wonder if commenter means "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell. You have asked for books yet other commenters have said, in effect, "look to your people, not books". Much wisdom in that advice but you did ask for books...keeping the balance between book-learned management and gut instincts of a good, naturally people-oriented, manager is just a gift.
Anyway, not that anybody would ever be dumb enough to entrust ME with project responsibility but the books I have read and thought useful are the above mentioned McConnell book [the authors favorite among his 4 or so titles] and another by him: The software project survival guide [ a book I keep at work so am only giving the title from memory] If your leadership duties are more than supervisory, ie you are expected to make
technical contributions, Malveau and Mowbray's Software Architect bootcamp" might be worth a peek too.
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hard to type and giggle at the same time but I gotta add that I would have been more worried about a DOS attack on the fish server. or If someone hacks the cron job and the system has piled up 40 lbs of formerly fresh mackerel on the kitchen floor by the
time you get back from a summer weekend at the beach...eyuuch!
You could be right about the sound quality if I am willing to add the cost of a good headset to what I have already paid but my basic cell service where I live is a crappy connection...the downloads would have to add a good protocol layer to fend off dropped packets [I mean it IS digital right? I shoulda RTFA but the whole idea is patently rediculous to an old fogey like me]
Also, as others have mentioned, trying to turn my cell phone into an ipod is going to either kill the battery, cause me to wear an outboard battery pack or tether me to the charger...all lame options for a guy to invariably trips over his own wires. Where would I use this ingenious service? If I am near my PC, I have multiple streaming and file-shared sources plus regular old CDs/mini-discs. If I'm in my car, my phone is for distracting me with phone calls, not playback [I have yet to finish two CD's on the longest family vaction trip in the car...CD's are already TOO MUCH music for me. If I am at work, they make us turn off our cellphones at the door [and they don't allow "cameras" in the building]...Nope. There must be somebody other than me they are planning to rob.
Now I can get acoustic
neuroma run up my cell phone minutes, make Mr Gates even richer yet and hear my favorite songs reproduced with truely hideous sound quality while my hand and neck cramp up as I strain to use a device with the ergonomics of a brick. Whoopee for Billy... won't make a nickle off of me. and my
damn NOK is still 30% underwater.
ita software built the fastest fare search engine in the world and leases it out to comanies like Oribtz. If you don't have a specific business deal with Orbitz, you can get your optimized fare straight from ITA and just go to website of of the airline they turn up for you to book the flight directly with the carrier...same prices, same seats, wicked fast.
I know its newsworthy but SAIC has already notified by various means all those employees and former empolyees it could reach...you are just spreading the word to anyone who knows where identity info gets fenced.
The stolen info includes our bank account numbers for those of us who set up funds transfers for our ESP accounts...we are, or we should, be running arond like crazy now, checking credit bureau reports and clamping addtional pass phrases, and putting fraud watches on all our accounts...this sucks in spades and we really don't need MORE publicity just now.
not a word about their random number generating
technique...so how is any of us going to judge whether any of a zillion subtle but not paranormal mechanisms might interfere with the operation or upset its output...they don't even say if the RNGs are Pseudo RNGs deterministic or non deterministic. Despite all the PhDs who get quoted in TFA, it still belongs at the supermarket checkout stand..."Nostradamus rolls binary dice!" Bullshit For instance, the art said:
...They had, it appeared, detected that an event of historic importance was about to take place before the terrorists had even boarded their fateful flights. The implications, not least for the West's security services who constantly monitor electronic 'chatter', are clearly enormous...
If most of the article is implying that massive angst among the earth's people is what nudges the RNG output into anomolous states then what the hell is this "prediction" crap? does it mean that a 20 or 30 arabs who are really nervous can emmit psy-waves
as intense as the balance of the planets people? What loosey goosey innumerate dodo writes crap like that?
I RTFA...the people being quoted are the ones who are not nerds WTF does "no format" mean? analog? there is no such thing as data with no format. The article is talking about business trends, not techology and it is so light on facts that you can make up your own story about whether this unformatted "data" is lossy or lossless and otherwise just make guesses about the "stuff that matters", as we say. DRM, as it is implemented and embedded in various technologies is always tied to a format.
/. archives are not cooperating with me just now so I can't give you the link....
but we went all over the "distracted computer user"
stuf prompted by a post concerning an article by David Levy at U. of Washington's School of information.
I wish I had time to RTFA but the post itself brings up an interesting question: If [A] Sun's reaction to Microsoft's ubiquity and its anticipation of declining market for its workstations and its earlier [than MS] grasp of what the WWW would do to the software world was to make java the languange and eventually J2EE the hardware independent platform. [B]And if, as the post suggests,.NET, Microsoft's one-up on Sun's old architectural coup, is now Redmond's repsonse to trends threatening its dominance
Then isn't history sort of forcing Microsoft to go down the same dubious track as Sun?
I for one welcome Microsoft to the war for mobile OS supremacy...There are already players in the field that many of us perfer to CE and there are enough of us writing OS code for-profit and for-the-common-good and mainly enough of us who remember the lessons of competing with Microsoft that if this is the first volley, I don't think the winner is foreordained.
and Poland is in Maine. Naples seems to be both in Florida and Maine...what you find depends on where in the hierarchy you start looking and where that starting point is is usually a default. Its funny: you zoom out to the last click and then hit the
pan button. The us, floating all by itself on a planet of water. I think Dubya is gonna love this
map. Hey, whaddaya want? its a BETA!
How many of you noticed that your allotment of Gmail invites jumped up to 50 from 6 the night before last? Is Google getting ready to take gmail out of beta?
This map thing kinda makes up for them charging $30 for Keyhole
When did Bloglines send you this message?
J. Paczkowski wrote about this yesterday. It was in the e-mail form of
Good Morning Silicon Valley. Apparently Jeeves didn't control the story too well and it got out before they could make their official announcement.
The prevailing winds must be pretty slack for
an aerosol to have time to rise up to cloud levels
and promote condensation before being wafted away from the reef those aerosols were intended to protect. If there are steady prevailing winds at the GBR, i would expect the benefit of this cloud formation to be down wind of the reef.
programmers writing viruses and spamming tools as there are now if there were more good paying jobs for people who like to program? It doesn't matter what you teach people...it matters what you pay them to do with their skill.
the post says The FBI said Friday it has shut down an e-mail system that it uses to communicate with the public because of a possible security breach..... Special Agent Steve Lazarus, the FBI's media coordinator in Atlanta, said in an e-mail describing the problem." I mean WHICH FBI email server was he using to send the message? How do we know its really Agent Steve and not somebody named 133thaxxor?
I'm still not sorry I submitted it. but you have a point...he suggests things that he does not describe well enough to support analysis pro or con. and it turns out he misused the term "suspicion engine"...look it up with google and the first thing on the list will be ibm/tivoli's product of that name. just the suggestion that security could be improved by burying challenges to the identity and access for a user somewhere deeper in the system than the UI/passsword mechanism we are familiar with was still a provocative if totally sick suggestion.
300+ comments tells me it hits a nerve.
A magnifying glass or a satellite recon photo can both be used to look at a forest....neither can see the tree. Forests sometimes die. This always happens because the trees die. The microscope turns out to give the view that can tell you why the forest is dieing even though it can't see the forest at all. In all but the most trivial cases there is more information affecting the outcomes than one mind can hold. Prioritization has to go hand in hand with feature extraction and this guy's thesis is "you already know all the features that matter...let prioritization happen". thats a crock in some cases...ask a laywer. ask a judge. listen to a jury.
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I wonder if commenter means "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell. You have asked for books yet other commenters have said, in effect, "look to your people, not books". Much wisdom in that advice but you did ask for books...keeping the balance between book-learned management and gut instincts of a good, naturally people-oriented, manager is just a gift.
Anyway, not that anybody would ever be dumb enough to entrust ME with project responsibility but the books I have read and thought useful are the above mentioned McConnell book [the authors favorite among his 4 or so titles] and another by him: The software project survival guide [ a book I keep at work so am only giving the title from memory]
If your leadership duties are more than supervisory, ie you are expected to make technical contributions, Malveau and Mowbray's Software Architect bootcamp" might be worth a peek too.
hard to type and giggle at the same time but I gotta add that I would have been more worried about a DOS attack on the fish server. or If someone hacks the cron job and the system has piled up 40 lbs of formerly fresh mackerel on the kitchen floor by the time you get back from a summer weekend at the beach...eyuuch!
You could be right about the sound quality if I am willing to add the cost of a good headset to what I have already paid but my basic cell service where I live is a crappy connection...the downloads would have to add a good protocol layer to fend off dropped packets [I mean it IS digital right? I shoulda RTFA but the whole idea is patently rediculous to an old fogey like me] Also, as others have mentioned, trying to turn my cell phone into an ipod is going to either kill the battery, cause me to wear an outboard battery pack or tether me to the charger...all lame options for a guy to invariably trips over his own wires.
Where would I use this ingenious service? If I am near my PC, I have multiple streaming and file-shared sources plus regular old CDs/mini-discs. If I'm in my car, my phone is for distracting me with phone calls, not playback [I have yet to finish two CD's on the longest family vaction trip in the car...CD's are already TOO MUCH music for me. If I am at work, they make us turn off our cellphones at the door [and they don't allow "cameras" in the building]...Nope. There must be somebody other than me they are planning to rob.
Now I can get acoustic neuroma run up my cell phone minutes, make Mr Gates even richer yet and hear my favorite songs reproduced with truely hideous sound quality while my hand and neck cramp up as I strain to use a device with the ergonomics of a brick. Whoopee for Billy ... won't make a nickle off of me. and my
damn NOK is still 30% underwater.
Uhm, I think "silicone-based sentience?" would refer to something like Anna Nicole Smith.
ita software built the fastest fare search engine in the world and leases it out to comanies like Oribtz. If you don't have a specific business deal with Orbitz, you can get your optimized fare straight from ITA and just go to website of of the airline they turn up for you to book the flight directly with the carrier...same prices, same seats, wicked fast.
I know its newsworthy but SAIC has already notified by various means all those employees and former empolyees it could reach...you are just spreading the word to anyone who knows where identity info gets fenced.
The stolen info includes our bank account numbers for those of us who set up funds transfers for our ESP accounts...we are, or we should, be running arond like crazy now, checking credit bureau reports and clamping addtional pass phrases, and putting fraud watches on all our accounts...this sucks in spades and we really don't need MORE publicity just now.
Despite all the PhDs who get quoted in TFA, it still belongs at the supermarket checkout stand..."Nostradamus rolls binary dice!"
Bullshit
For instance, the art said:If most of the article is implying that massive angst among the earth's people is what nudges the RNG output into anomolous states then what the hell is this "prediction" crap? does it mean that a 20 or 30 arabs who are really nervous can emmit psy-waves as intense as the balance of the planets people? What loosey goosey innumerate dodo writes crap like that?
I RTFA... the people being quoted are the ones who are not nerds
WTF does "no format" mean? analog? there is no such thing as data with no format. The article is talking about business trends, not techology and it is so light on facts that you can make up your own story about whether this unformatted "data" is lossy or lossless and otherwise just make guesses about the "stuff that matters", as we say. DRM, as it is implemented and embedded in various technologies is always tied to a format.
typos????
/. archives are not cooperating with me just now so I can't give you the link....
but we went all over the "distracted computer user" stuf prompted by a post concerning an article by David Levy at U. of Washington's School of information.
I wish I had time to RTFA but the post itself brings up an interesting question: If .NET, Microsoft's one-up on Sun's old architectural coup, is now Redmond's repsonse to trends threatening its dominance
[A] Sun's reaction to Microsoft's ubiquity and its anticipation of declining market for its workstations and its earlier [than MS] grasp of what the WWW would do to the software world was to make java the languange and eventually J2EE the hardware independent platform.
[B]And if, as the post suggests,
Then isn't history sort of forcing Microsoft to go down the same dubious track as Sun?
I for one welcome Microsoft to the war for mobile OS supremacy...There are already players in the field that many of us perfer to CE and there are enough of us writing OS code for-profit and for-the-common-good and mainly enough of us who remember the lessons of competing with Microsoft that if this is the first volley, I don't think the winner is foreordained.
and Poland is in Maine. Naples seems to be both in Florida and Maine...what you find depends on where in the hierarchy you start looking and where that starting point is is usually a default. Its funny: you zoom out to the last click and then hit the pan button. The us, floating all by itself on a planet of water. I think Dubya is gonna love this map.
Hey, whaddaya want? its a BETA!
How many of you noticed that your allotment of Gmail invites jumped up to 50 from 6 the night before last? Is Google getting ready to take gmail out of beta?
This map thing kinda makes up for them charging $30 for Keyhole
When did Bloglines send you this message?
J. Paczkowski wrote about this yesterday. It was in the e-mail form of Good Morning Silicon Valley. Apparently Jeeves didn't control the story too well and it got out before they could make their official announcement.
The prevailing winds must be pretty slack for an aerosol to have time to rise up to cloud levels and promote condensation before being wafted away from the reef those aerosols were intended to protect. If there are steady prevailing winds at the GBR, i would expect the benefit of this cloud formation to be down wind of the reef.
programmers writing viruses and spamming tools as there are now if there were more good paying jobs for people who like to program? It doesn't matter what you teach people ...it matters what you pay them to do with their skill.
the post says The FBI said Friday it has shut down an e-mail system that it uses to communicate with the public because of a possible security breach. .... Special Agent Steve Lazarus, the FBI's media coordinator in Atlanta, said in an e-mail describing the problem."
I mean WHICH FBI email server was he using to send the message? How do we know its really Agent Steve and not somebody named 133thaxxor?
hidden somewhere "in plain sight" in the code I turn in, is a program that actually works and has no bugs.
also, the post says bookpool won't say when it will be completely published but the fascicle I read mentions the year. 2006
I'm still not sorry I submitted it. but you have a point...he suggests things that he does not describe well enough to support analysis pro or con. and it turns out he misused the term "suspicion engine"...look it up with google and the first thing on the list will be ibm/tivoli's product of that name.
just the suggestion that security could be improved by burying challenges to the identity and access for a user somewhere deeper in the system than the UI/passsword mechanism we are familiar with was still a provocative if totally sick suggestion. 300+ comments tells me it hits a nerve.
but can you remember the adverbial form of "quick"?
preview then submit
....moron!
preview then submit
preview then submit
preview then submit
preview then submit
preview then submit
A magnifying glass or a satellite recon photo can both be used to look at a forest....neither can see the tree. Forests sometimes die. This always happens because the trees die. The microscope turns out to give the view that can tell you why the forest is dieing even though it can't see the forest at all. In all but the most trivial cases there is more information affecting the outcomes than one mind can hold. Prioritization has to go hand in hand with feature extraction and this guy's thesis is "you already know all the features that matter...let prioritization happen".
thats a crock in some cases...ask a laywer. ask a judge. listen to a jury.