Friday Linkage
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 great debate on open office work spaces versus individual/group offices for productivity and worker happiness.
I must admit to being a bit of a Rands fan: I read his blog and own a copy of his book (its even in my recommended reading list). His latest post is about scaling as a manager to allow yourself to grow, he also talks about skills managers need and the transition from developer to manager.
I’ve been a long time user of Perforce at work and I’ve always preferred the original P4Win client application to the newer P4V client. But I’ve recently discovered that as of release 2008.2 that P4V now has the features that were in P4Win that I could not live without! P4V has the added bonus of being less demanding on the Perforce server you are connecting to than P4Win.
We had some seriousally thick fog in Vancouver over the last week, this amazing shot was taken from Cypress a nearby mountain. This has serious desktop wallpaper potential!
