I have lost count of the times I have heard a developer exclaim ‘but I could write that in X days’ when discussing adopting an existing piece of technology developed somewhere else. This is usually given as a reason not to adopt an existing external solution but to instead write a custom solution with [...]
I created the wallpaper below to remind myself about the implications of the Pareto Principle known commonly as the ‘80-20′ rule. Click the image for the original sized version.
Have you ever wondered why some projects develop functional prototypes almost overnight while other projects take forever to produce a working prototype? I think one of the major deciding factors in whether a project team will rapidly assemble a working product or not is if they are aiming for something that is perfect or ‘merely’ [...]
Another video by the same guys that presented ‘The myth of the genius programmer’, this time from Google I/O 2008: talking about how to protect your open source project from poisonous or negative people. I think their advice is equally applicable to non-open source projects as it is to open source projects.
Hat tip to [...]
I am going to be moving this sites RSS feeds away from FeedBurner this weekend. Mostly because I want per topic feeds and I have not yet found a FeedBurner plug-in for WordPress that supports that.
Consider yourself warned if you are using an RSS reader!
Update: I didn’t move the RSS feeds in the end.