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Iron Triangle and release planning
I’m going to rant about the Iron Triangle… you can promise date or features, but not date and features. So, add features to your project, and you’ll lose time. Subtract features, and you’ll probably only maintain time and still just meet your deadline, because work expands to fill the introduced gap. There is always more…
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Apple shuffle
Apple products are not awesome at shuffling things… whether songs or pictures, Apple products like to pick a dozen and serve them up over and over. Luckily, AppleScript can help us remedy this deficiency for the screensaver: # Make a folder ~/screensaver-pics # Make a numbered series of folders containing pictures (I used years) #…
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Ultimate Data Visualization: Splunk + Electric Sheep
like inward singing, it makes non-stop rocking possible. Some individuals may perceive some slight gaps between “enhanced security” and “electric sheep” but just talk fast and you’ll be fine. Download here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16649188/electric%20sheep.zip
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Valuable Jerks
Once upon a time I worked with a developer who was a jerk. His bosses didn’t like him, his colleagues didn’t like him, he wasn’t a team player. He produced though, and his code worked, and he would work all night to fix field-reported issues. Consequently, the field loved him and had nothing bad to…
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Leading the Horses
Recovered from October 13, 2006 — thanks, Wayback Machine! (DVD? Is that like some medieval YouTube?) Computer Education is one of the most useless endeavors known to man, up there with 17th century tulip speculation. I’m not referring to directed training courses on specific products; some people learn better in a classroom environment, and I’ve…
