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Culture Yes We Can… if you’re using Vista!
Barak Obama has motivated real change in the entire world today, four months before the general election! Vista and Server 2008 users were greeted by KB955020. To be fair, “Friendster” is included as well, along with a couple words auf Deutsch, but Obama did get his own Office 2003 hotfix last year.
Culture, Design Estimates
Andy Rutledge has a great article on estimating hours for projects.
This has always been a sticky spot, since I think we all want to have the most optimistic view possible of the projects we work on, our abilities, and our clients; however, having accurate estimates of of the time that we will spend on our projects is crucial to being competitive, or even competent.
My personal favorite part of the article is the footnotes to the discussion of Client B.
If the client cannot describe their brand: Consider not taking this project
If the client doesn’t understand the needs of their clients: Strongly consider not taking this project
If the client is abusive: Do not take the project
Would that it were always that simple…
Culture, Software Nobody Cares What Your Code Looks Like? Really?
There was an interesting article on Coding Horror yesterday, the gist of which was simply that it really doesn’t matter what your code looks like. Later in the day, I saw another post saying, “Everyone cares what your code looks like”. Obviously, both statements are false. Continue Reading…
Culture War Rooms
InfoQ ran an Agile article today about project war-rooms. Their post is pretty useless, but it does reference an interesting Science Daily bit about teams working in a shared space. The conclusion is that teams will be up to twice as productive in a war-room style environment.
This isn’t new information. Anyone who’s worked in a startup will tell you that productivity skyrockets when you’re all in a shared space. Paul Graham will tell you that you should start your endeavors in an apartment as opposed to an office building, which is the epitome of this ideal. It’s obvious: if you put people who are all passionate about a project in close proximity to each other, they’ll all benefit. Right?
Well, not necessily.
Culture, Marketing Tips on hiring any developer, not just Rails guys!
Recently Ruby Inside published a list of 11 tips on hiring a Rails developer. Since I’m slowly getting into Rails I thought, “Here’s going to be a list of awesome Rails-specific things I’d need to pick up on!”
Wrong.