The web pages I’ve found most interesting this week when I’ve not been puppy herding or ill:
Open plan offices make workers sick
The results of this research is no real surprise, as putting lots of people is a room is a fairly efficient germ distribution mechanism. Yet it is another useful bit of information in the [...]
If someone was to ask what would we improve in our workplace, we could all run off a list of ideas on what could be improved. Take a look at this list Joel Spolsky came up with as a test for the workplace: be warned the results of this test can be fairly depressing! Whether [...]
Apologies for the lack of my interesting links post on Friday. Be advised this post is not going to be about software engineering in any way, Fear not I am going to have a post written for tomorrow and it will be about software engineering! The image below is the explanation as to why I [...]
I am a team leader of a small team of programmers, we are specialists inside a large central team of specialists.
One of the things I struggle with the most in the adjustment to being a lead programmer is dealing with the guilt of not programming when doing lead tasks like planning, design documents and meetings. [...]
When I first started this blog I had the blog on a sub-domain of the main domain: blog.endlesslycurious.com and at the actual index page of www.endlesslycurious.com I had a splash screen, which was an image of a Wordle word cloud I had generated using the dictionary definitions of ‘endlessly and ‘curious’. I can’t remember why [...]