Amazingly insightful easy, as usual, on coding horror about The Two Types of Programmers. The 20% folks are what many would call "alpha" programmers — the leaders, trailblazers, trendsetters, the kind of folks that places like Google and Fog Creek software are obsessed with hiring. These folks were the first ones to install Linux at …
I came back from a client meeting today to find 1 person looking for me, and then two people aiming me to let know the first person is also looking for me. Sometimes I hate AIM. Although one day I turned off IM thinking I’d get some work done, but then I got a call …
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Luckily the install is very painless and mostly automated (easier than the last windows install I did). Despite all the critiques of linux installs (and yes, it did cross my mind that a new Mac would be nice), I find myself hunting for drivers and driver CDs (especially for motherboard subsystems) than I have to …
Went out with Greg, Sandy, Nyk, and Corey to hang out and have a beer or more this evening. Some notable quotes from the evening: Sandy Oh was I drunk? Sometimes I’m a virgin when I’m drunk Nyk Greg, why do you have to be so f*cking belligerent Corey Five or six long island ice …
At the annual retreat for work, one of the sessions involved presenting about organizations we found interesting or good models. Finally, all my knowledge and time spent on BigSoccer and MLSNet paid off. Not all of us were tagged to present, and I felt really bad for eveyone else who actually spent some time researching …
I actually got to say the following to one of our managers over lunch today: “So, project managers would take the requirements from the client and bring them to the developer. Would you say that’s what they would do here?” It pretty much made my day…
I’m not sure what gods we angered at work but one of our production servers has been quite unruly this week which has left me with little time to post to my blog.