Today’s topic is success as software professionals. Many important lessons on this subject can be found in an unlikely place – Colin Powell’s auto-biography “My American Journey”, published in 1995. Hey, what does this have to do with software you might … Continue reading
Peopleware – Book Review Peopleware 2nd Edition Productive Projects and Teams By Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister Peopleware is a timeless book on the human side of making software. We have all encountered many of the anti-patterns described in the … Continue reading
The Software Association of Oregon (SAO) held its first ever Tech Ignite event last Thursday, September 15th, 2011. My presentation “Building an ePortfolio system for NASA” was accepted! The event was taped and you can watch me in action here: … Continue reading
Here is the presentation I gave at IALLT 2011, The International Association for Language Learning Technology, on LinguaFolio, one of the web based systems I designed and work on at the University of Oregon. Just click below to start the … Continue reading
I started with one screen, spiked up to 4, and now generally use two. More screens add to developer productivity, but I found there is a limit my mind can handle. If I need to write code, refresh a browser, … Continue reading
This was a reality for me and a co-worker for over one year. Note the plunger and the chains on the walls. This was more of a ‘lab’, my desk was outside this room, but we used to lovingly refer … Continue reading