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A good start!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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R is coming to SQL Server. SQL Server 2016 (which will be in public preview this summer) will include new real-time analytics, automatic data encryption, and the ability to run R within the database itself We seem to be going for a pirate theme today. aRRRRRRR
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Manditory Theme-Related Music[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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What’s the oldest third-party software your company uses? Why is it still in use? "I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept"
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Last week I got an email stating that IT intends to shut down a bug tracker I last used 8 or 9 years ago, and had assumed had the plug pulled a half dozen years ago when the old URL I bookmarked stopped working, at the end of the month.
We've got a few racks of embedded system controlled by an Alpha Box with a decade on the clock. We were quoted mid-six figures for an upgrade to the newest version of all the control systems in the rack and a Linux box to run the new version of the control application. At some point over the summer we're going to try virtualizing the software and running it on an x86 box. Since we'll be virtualizing across CPU architectures I'm not overly confident about it working well; even assuming that since all the links to the rack are over Ethernet that we shouldn't have any high precision timing issues to worry about.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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People running pirated copies of Windows are going to have to pay — or keep pirating — if they want to update their computers to Windows 10. Yar, it's the plank for them!
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There are just two months left before Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows Server 2003 support, but a significant portion of enterprise servers are still running the OS, according to recent Softchoice Corp. survey that will be published this month. If it's about to be broke, time to fix it
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We're still using 2003 because management won't let me migrate.
Besides the support issue and technological deficit created, there are other issues you don't even think about. For example, I have to tell customers to use Compatibility View for IE 10+ because IIS doesn't recognize the web browser and then Web Forms do not work.
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Agile has its roots in the Agile Manifesto, the product of 17 software developers coming together in 2001 to talk over development methods. And now one of those developers, Andy Hunt, has taken to his blog to argue that Agile has some serious issues. It's certainly not a failing concept to write articles about how it's a failing concept
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A few people failing to implement the concept doesn't mean it's a flawed concept.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: A few people failing to implement the concept doesn't mean it's a flawed concept.
On the other hand, slavishly adhering to the concept usually leads to the process becoming more important than the product and that can never be a good thing.
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I had not seen your comment until I popped over here to add my comment:
Agile as a religion may be a failure, but as a practice, it takes some determination to find a dev shop not using it in some way. Just that, to me, is a clear mark of success.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Also true. I have instigated agile but in a way that I thought suited the culture and the objectives. That worked well for me.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: A few people failing to implement the concept doesn't mean it's a flawed concept.
A very good point. Except maybe "a few people" could be "a whole lot of people". and I also notice that you do not call them developers, engineers, architects, etc.  Most likely it's the PMs and Ms of all types.
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It's ironic, because the Manifesto is pretty good, but the way it's been put into practice, yes, absolutely, is a failure right out of the gate in just about every way possible.
But then again, every methodology has failed, so perhaps the question to ask is "has Agile failed the least?"
Marc
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I'm just now reading a very good book which incorporates Agile Methodology.
Adaptive Code Via C# by Gary McLean Hall (amazon link)[^]
It's great because it's a Devs view of Agile in practice and how it helps you create Adaptive Code -- which is a great term for a great idea.
That's what Agile should be about.
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newton.saber wrote: I'm just now reading a very good book which incorporates Agile Methodology.
Heh, one reviewer's comment:
This book is a game-changer for the C# community. Scrum, patterns, the SOLID principles and clean code all have their roots more or less in the Java language.
I guess the reviewer is implying the C# community has its head where the sun don't shine.
Marc
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Here[^]'s a manifesto as an answer to your manifesto.
Marc Clifton wrote: so perhaps the question to ask is "has Agile failed the least?"
The question you'd have to ask, is whether or not it adds value.
Yes, I can see the added value in the description; instead of crafting software, it evolves. Means more flexibility during the proces, but also introduces some uncertainties.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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IMHO, the best thing about agile is that decisions are not imposed, but collective; leading to more ownership.
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Avijnata wrote: the best thing about agile is that decisions are not imposed
In all the places I've worked that have claimed to be "agile", I've never seen that. Decisions are always imposed.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Was a scrum-master for three years, and always took decisions in consultation with the senior team members.
We were a highly-rated team too.
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As a senior developer, sometimes I can suggest ideas, sometimes I can influence decisions, when I'm really lucky I can demonstrate a number of options, but the end decisions is always made by managers, business analysts, sales teams or end users.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Avijnata wrote: decisions are not imposed, but collective; leading to more ownership
Right. Meaning you don't fall over the Water Fall (methodology) then look back at what failed and blame one programmer for misinterpreting the vision. Instead the whole team is on the hook.
The problem is...you have to talk to people a lot. Ugh. Yes, I'm kidding.
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