January 17th, 2008
Michael Krigsman, a well-known ZDnet blogger, interviewed me on the phone last week for his Naked IT series, and wrote up a summary of the results. I’m not going to summarize his summary, other than to reassure you that I wasn’t naked in the interview. It’s easier to just point you to it — click […]
December 3rd, 2007
A couple days ago, I wrote about implementing some techniques for reducing e-mail distractions and interruptions, based on suggestions that I had found in Tim Ferriss‘ book, The 4-hour Workweek. I’m pleased to report that — at least so far — the techniques work. Significantly, none of the people who interact with me by email […]
November 14th, 2007
For the “Software Best Practices” seminars where I’ll be speaking in Austin tomorrow, I’ve made a substantial number of updates and refinements to the material that I presented in Ft. Lauderdale a couple days ago. The material is fundamentally the same as before, but I’ve added a couple more recommended books, papers, and articles — […]
November 7th, 2007
I’m participating in a “Software Best Practices” seminar in Albany tomorrow (click here for details on future venues of this seminar, hosted by IT Metrics & Productivity Institute — including Ft. Lauderdale and Austin next week), and I’ll be giving a talk on the “Top Ten Software Engineering Ideas.”
To download the 20.5-megabyte PDF of the […]
November 2nd, 2007
I brought along an interesting book on my trip to Rome last weekend, and thought I’d recommend it to those of you who have the good luck, or bad luck (depending on your perspective) of managing geeks. The book is Leading Geeks, by Paul Glen; it’s about 250 pages of straightforward reading, and qualifies reasonably […]
October 11th, 2007
I’ll be giving a presentation on the “top 10 software engineering concepts” at a software best-practices seminar in Detroit today; for more details about this and future seminars (including, for example, Jacksonville next week, and Austin next month), click here.
If you’d like to download a 15.9-megabyte PDF of the one-page mind-map for the presentation, […]
February 13th, 2007
Another day, another chapter: I’ve now read through Chapter 3 of Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code, and will offer a few comments and observations. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you might want to skip back to some earlier blog entries that discuss the preface and initial chapters of the book; links […]
February 11th, 2007
As promised, I’ve digested another chapter of Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code, and will do my best to make my comments much briefer than in the past.
Before I discuss the chapter itself, let me emphasize again that Scott has posted an online version of the endnotes for the book, which you can find here. It […]
February 8th, 2007
All but my most loyal blog-fans (are there such people?) have probably forgotten that I received my copy of Dreaming in Code from Amazon back in mid-January, and began enthusiastically reviewing the preface and first chapter. I knew that I would soon be distracted by other assignments and deadlines, but I had hoped to finish […]
February 4th, 2007
I’m back in New York, after a 12-hour plane ride home from Tokyo. Piles of snail-mail, voice-mail, and e-mail waiting to be answered; and a new project to focus on next week. But before all of my impressions of Tokyo and the Japanese software profession fade away entirely, I thought I’d jot them down here.
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