Posts Tagged ‘ Work ’

Easily Bored?

  • June 12th, 2007
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Darren Neimke posted some interesting thoughts today about the way developers lose their drive on a project, and how it’s reflected in SCRUM meetings. He thought that it might be due to the SCRUM meetings themselves. Daniel Crowley-Wilson has another idea – the developers are just bored. Developers relish challenges and opportunities to do new [ READ MORE ]

Is it really impossible to choose between LINQ and Stored Procedures?

  • March 30th, 2007
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For the mathematician there is no Ignorabimus, and, in my opinion, not at all for natural science either. … The true reason why [no one] has succeeded in finding an unsolvable problem is, in my opinion, that there is no unsolvable problem. In contrast to the foolish Ignoramibus, our credo avers: We must know, We [ READ MORE ]

Agile Programming Gripe

  • December 6th, 2006
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Alfred Thompson recently blogged about an interesting interview given by Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++, now professor of computer science at Texas A&M University. As ever the interviewers were after his prescription for the Silver Bullet that will save us all from ourselves. Alfred has already boiled down the interview to a couple of [ READ MORE ]

Let the Flame Wars Begin…

  • December 6th, 2006
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Alec has provided a few of the reasons he hates Microsoft. They all seem like sentimental attachment to other peoples litigation defeats… In honour of that, I have changed the colour of my blog for a day or two… I too went through an undergraduate phase of anti-MS zealotry, and adopted obscure platforms as a [ READ MORE ]

Keeping a Developer’s Lab Book

  • November 21st, 2006
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Despite having used a laptop at work for years, I’ve always kept a paper notebook by my side. I depend on these notebooks. I even purchased the whole UK supply of Paperchase’s 500 page, leatherette, squared, rounded notebooks. These beauties are un-dog-ear-able, perfect for UML diagrams, lightweights and relatively inexpensive. The supply in the UK [ READ MORE ]

The Indians are busy

  • May 22nd, 2006
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I did a quick search on the new Google trends service, for the word 'algorithm'. The top 6 cities out of the top 10, were in india. Perhaps I should move to India. they get to use algorithms there! Either way, it seems that that would be a fair indicator of the fact that western [ READ MORE ]

The LinkMe Xmas Do 2005

  • December 21st, 2005
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IMG_0751 Originally uploaded by Andrew Matthews. Here's Kerry and I after a great evening at the LinkMe christmas do. I must admit that it's a pleasant change to go to one of these things and have a good time, especially since for years I have adopted the "forge no ties" policy to my clients. Oh, [ READ MORE ]

When a brill-o-pad goes bad…

  • July 11th, 2005
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…sometimes you get out your brill-o-pad with the best of intentions and it all goes bad. Nitrogen has had something installed on it that disagrees with it and performance is getting progressively worse. There are a few suspects: SQL Server 2005 CTP, VS.NET 2005 beta 2, and a limitless number of other crud that oughtn't [ READ MORE ]

Programming Gem of the day

  • July 7th, 2005
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I think this one requires no disparaging commentary, it's funereal dissatisfactoryness stands as a balefire to all of you who want to write code that is both tenebrous and brittle. adCol.Add(new Advertisement(dr.GetString(0), dr.GetDateTime(1),dr.GetString(2), dr.GetString(3), dr.GetInt32(4), dr.GetBoolean(5), dr.GetFloat(6), dr.GetString(7), dr.GetString(8), dr.GetString(9), dr.GetDateTime(10), (int)dr.GetInt16(11), (int)dr.GetInt16(12), (int)dr.GetInt16(13), dr.GetString(14), dr.GetString(15), dr.GetString(16), dr.GetString(17), dr.GetInt32(18), dr.GetString(19), dr.GetString(20), dr.GetString(21).ToCharArray()[0], dr.GetString(22).ToCharArray()[0], dr.GetString(23))); This [ READ MORE ]

And another thing…

  • July 4th, 2005
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Dom suggested that "The distance to our goals always seems further to those realists without sufficient knowledge.". My personal experience in software indicates that when you are attempting to solve a difficult problem with many unknowns, you cannot predict the degree of complexity of the problem or solution without actually solving the problem. Good estimation [ READ MORE ]

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