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 things, [...]
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 shall know.
It’s [...]
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 Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )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 kind [...]
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 Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )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 developers are writing [...]
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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, and the food was [...]
…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 Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )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.
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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 [...]
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