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Culture boss fun part two, the path bar
apparently OSX does it natively too, just at the bottom:
(special thanks to cohort Kent)
Culture embarrass your boss in one easy step
(and yea, my windows are pink)
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…