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How to make Agile stick: both IT professionals and their employers need a 'software craftsman' mindset that addresses each project with extreme quality and care -- despite deadline pressures. "He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."
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In other words, we still don't know how to deliver bug free, well written software on time. 
Marc
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Knowing is not the same as doing.
I think the real source of the problem here is "pure-software" project managers. I think that projects should be seen as larger than their software component and managed by the beneficiary. The artificial separation these people create is harmful to both the business (by hiding the possibilities that are available through software) and to the developers (by imposing somewhat arbitrary measures of completeness and goodness that don't align to business value delivered.)
The embarrassing truth is that a business manager with the right tools (like burndown charts etc.) is far more effective (in my experience) than a software manager because they have the possibility to say "that feature is not important".
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"Cortana, that’s perhaps the thing that’s going to change personal productivity even most and especially with Windows 10." Most people are already talking to their computers, now it can swear back
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What's that? Sounds awful.
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I'm going to take a wild guess that even if, in a fit of insanity, I were to connect a microphone to my PC (Hi Admiral Rogers); I'd find that saying "Hi Cortana, please start the best browser to download another browser and download a browser that doesn't suck" would take longer than clicking that big blue e and typing www.getfirefox.com. 
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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Quote: and download a browser that doesn't suck"
You mean you download Firefox in order to download Chrome? You can get Chrome directly using IE you know.
I have just finished working on an HTML editor that has to work on IE9+, Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Of all of these, Firefox has given me the most headaches! I haven't tried Opera but I was not required to support it (it is for use on our company intranet so we have a small measure of control).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Why, is Chrome, the preferred tool to install Lynx these days?
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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I wish!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Almost 10 years ago, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels famously revealed how the company had moved away from traditional department-led Web operations to developers deploying their own code. The SysAdmin is dead. Long live the SysAdmin.
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Quote: This change in workflow means that developers are not only cranking out code from 9 to 5, they are also on duty from 5 to 9. Those 2 a.m. bug notifications are an unwelcome alarm clock for developers,
Fortunately, the fact that my brain classifies my phone ringing as equivalent to car traffic, songbirds, the elephanting roosters crows, etc as something to sleep through means that my sleep deprived 2am brain won't be making an even bigger disaster to confront at 8.
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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Enterprises continue to fumble open source, largely because they misunderstand its value. "With you I'd like to share it, 'cause if I share it with you you'll have some too"
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A quick and dirty calculation reveals that you could print the entire internet on 136 billion pieces of standard 8-by-11 sheets of paper. Or you could do it with one very large sheet
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Quote: it would take 16 million trees to print 136 billion sheets of standard 8-by-11 sheets of paper. That's more than three times the number of trees growing in New York City at this moment.
Somehow it's less impressive after reading this. Call again when it takes more trees than there are on Earth.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Kent Sharkey wrote: standard 8-by-11 sheets of paper
8 by 11 is a very local standard.
ANSI is not ISO 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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JavaScript can be a deceiving language and it can be a real pain because it isn’t 100% consistent. Just because there are braces and semicolons doesn't mean it works the same way
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Quote: most programmers hate JavaScript for 2 reasons:
- The DOM, which they erroneously think is equivalent to the JavaScript language, which has quite a terrible API.
- They come to JavaScript from languages like C and Java. They are fooled by JavaScript’s syntax into believing that it works the same way as those imperative languages do. This misconception will lead to confusion, frustration, and bugs.
That’s why, generally, JavaScript has a worse reputation than it deserves.
No, #1 in particular is why the clusterelephant of a language deserves all of the hatred and loathing it gets.
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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4D printing is unfolding as technology that takes 3D printing to an entirely new level.
Time is of the essence.
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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Calling it "4D printing" is quite misleading because the object is not changing during the print process but afterwards through stimuli. Maybe something like "3D printing with transformable materials" would better describe it. Guess "4D printing" just sounds cooler. 
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I'm a little tired of writing about passwords. But like taxes, email and pinkeye, they're not going away any time soon. "MargaretThatcheris110%Sexy"
...and now you can't unsee that. It's kind of like The Ring, pass it on, and you're safe.
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Brute force attackers don't try short passwords, so very short passwords are safest.
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You know, you might be right. Last time I looked at one of those files (way, way back in the L0phtcrack days), I don't remember seeing stuff < 4 characters.
New password, 'eh'? (I'll be so Canadian)
TTFN - Kent
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Enter Password : cfrtetert
Your password is incorrect
Enter Password : incorrect
Welcome to the jungle.....
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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People knowing different languages seem to have an advantage. For example, my passwords are chosen from compound Sanskrit words, and compound Kannada words; there are several ways of compounding words (all grammatically correct).
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Welsh village names work a treat too 
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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