Have you heard the term “PowerPoint poisoning“?
I have come to dread presentations especially those that involve PowerPoint: this fear has developed over the years mostly due to sitting through way too many terrible presentations. Here are several trends I have noticed in these painful presentations.
Reading the slides to the audience.
This is my number one complaint, [...]
I have made an interesting discovery since I started taking our new puppies to work with me: I actually seem to be more productive now than I was before I started taking the puppies to work! The pups generally need to be taken outside to relieve themselves and run off some energy every hour or [...]
Jani Hartikainen has written an excellent post in reply to my earlier post about teaching software engineering students memory management, and his post is well worth a read. I started off writing a comment on his post as a reply but I ended up writing more than I expected as I refined my ideas.
I agree [...]
Yesterday morning I spent a fascinating hour or so in a meeting listening to a very senior engineer give and in depth presentation about the performance characteristics of the low level memory systems on a console and the content of the presentation got me thinking about how software engineering is taught. Specifically are students being [...]
Reading books to help develop your career seems to be falling out of fashion of late, especially in Software Engineering where websites, mailing list and blogs are used to fill the gap. I don’t think this is a completely healthy trend, as a lot of the best writing I’ve encountered on general software engineering, projects [...]