September 7th, 2006
A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Narendra Rocherolle from 30 Boxes, and talking with him about the evolution of calendar tools, email, and organizational habits of the younger generation of Web surfers (aka “Generation Y”). I wrote up my thoughts about 30 Boxes here, and then followed it up with some [...]
September 7th, 2006
A few days ago, I posted an entry titled “E-mail is broken.” A couple days later, Anne Zelenka posted an opposing perspective, titled “Email: the good-enough collaboration tool.” As far as I know, she hadn’t seen my posting, though quite possibly it wouldn’t have changed her opinion. Meanwhile, Lars Plougman has posted a scathing commentary [...]
September 7th, 2006
I know it’s a small thing, but I enjoyed the all-too-rare pleasure of eating lunch with a real knife today — and a real fork, and a real spoon, not those cheap plastic imitations — while traveling from New York to Boston. In case you, too, have forgotten how nice these little pleasures are, I [...]
September 6th, 2006
It’s been a while since I last updated my Web 2.0 mind-map. I’ve been steadily acquiring links to interesting articles, analyses, guidelines, and other resources, and have now incorporated them into version 20 of the mind-map. You can find it in the “downloads” section of my main web site at www.yourdon.com/downloads, or you can simply [...]
September 6th, 2006
Joel Spolsky has written a great blog posting on the trials and tribulations of finding great software developers. Link. One of his observations is that while great developers never have to post their resumes on boards like Monster.com, the resumes you do see on those online boards are likely to be those of mediocre-to-bad developers. [...]
September 5th, 2006
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