Bush administration objects to .xxx domains
on Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
Oh well, no surprise for me.
Archive for August, 2005
Things to say when you’re losing a technical argument
on Monday, August 15th, 2005
I love these hints!!!
Some of are :
- That won’t scale.
- That’s been proven to be O(N^2) and we need a solution that’s O(NlogN).
- There are, of course, various export limitations on that technology.
- If we go with that idea, we’re going to have Don Marti camped out in the front lobby with 300 angry software jihad supporters. (this gave me a good laugh)
- No, that would break object encapsulation.
- I don’t think that’s altogether clear. Please write it up in UML for me.
more here
Windows and Linux on the Sony PSP
on Monday, August 15th, 2005
Windows and Linux on the Sony PSP? hmm
State of the Blogosphere
on Monday, August 15th, 2005
How to Decide What Bugs to Fix When
on Friday, August 12th, 2005
The Top 10 worst ways to decide:
10.Fix only the bugs that annoy your CEO.
9. Fix every bug (never ship).
8. Don’t fix any bugs (ship today!).
7. Fix only the bugs that annoy your CEO’s spouse/daughter/pet hamster.
6. Require approval for every decision from the most annoying and least intelligent person in your organization (possibly redundant with No. 10).
5. Start on a bug at random, and when you’re halfway finished, switch to another. Repeat.
4. Play bug hot potato. Don’t fix bugs, just keep assigning yours to someone else.
3. Put bugs in alphabetical order and fix them from A to Z, skipping vowels. (Hint: if you relabel bugs appropriately, this is equivalent to No. 8.)
2.Create a complex parliamentary system of delegates elected by two-thirds majority to draft a charter of bylaws and rules of order for the formation of three bilateral subcommittees empowered to moderate future strategic defect management discourse.
1.Spend all available time debating whether your current process appears on this list.
a nice article is available on OnLamp.
Opensource Business Guide
on Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
InfoWorld has an interesting article about using open source software in the business…
Some titles:
A buyer’s guide to open source
Open source business intelligence
Open source business process management
Open source content management
Open source CRM
Open source ERP
Open source enterprise service bus
Open source identity
Open source directory
Open source portals
Open source point of sale
Open source RFID
Open source VoIP/Telephony
Open source licensing offers many choices
Here is the link
Meetro
on Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
ICQ + L10n sounds like a good idea.
But the bad side of Meetro is I guess, that you have to download something.
All the functionality of Meetro would be on a website…
And what about a dating website together with functionality of Google Maps and blogging…
That would be hot!
Good programmers and Bad Programmers
on Thursday, August 4th, 2005
What does it mean to be “the best programmer” and are there really such major variations between the quality of software produced by different programmers?
Joel Spolsky answers this question on his website