Software Adventures

Thought of the day by Jason Fried and David Hansson

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:25:25 +0000

Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day,
they just use it up. The real hero is already home because
she figured out a faster way to get things done.

- Jason Fried and David Hansson

Dear managers don’t confuse cows with software developers !

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:42:55 +0000

Today I observed a pity situation at work. A senior developer with 10 years experience in Java Enterprise solution have been tried to be replaced with a trainee. The trainee had to prepare build script for a Java project, without a standard maven directory structure, with Ext GWT, Oracle , etc. The trainee doesn’t even know how to write Hello World in Java!

Dear managers don’t confuse cows with software developers ! Yeah, I know the cows and software developers give products

Thought of the day by Don Marquis

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:39:36 +0000

Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

- Don Marquis

The Software Story of the Axe Sharpening

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:19:35 +0000

There is a joke for a woodchopper who axes woods with a blunt tool. When the woodchopper was asked why you didn’t whet your axe, he answered that he had a lot of work and had to cut a lof ot woods and no time to whet the tool. The last two months I observed the same situation in software version . The blunt tool was a DB which was more than 5 000 kilometers away of the office and the acess was very slow to it. Every access to the DB for debugging purposes took us about 5 minutes and every one of us lost about 2 hours every day in waiting. We explained to our bosses that we had a problem. The problem was decided after 2 months! The aproximate calculations is that for four developers we have lost more than 300 hours in waiting of the DB which is about 20% of our development time!!! Next time when you rushing in doing something ask yourself whether you have whet your main tool.

Thought of the day by Voltaire

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:37:14 +0000

The best is the enemy of the good.

- Voltaire

Thought of the day by Hector Berlioz

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:29:37 +0000

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz

Thought of the day by Frederick P. Brooks

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:20:23 +0000

How does a project get to be a year late ?
… One day at a time.
– Excerpt from “The Mythical Month-Month”

Thought of the day by Larry Wall regarding laziness

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:05:02 +0000

Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so that you don’t have to answer so many questions about it.

—Larry Wall

Thought of the day by Paul W. Homer

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:56:05 +0000

Great programmers can do more than just get their code to work, they can also build a foundation to allow their efforts to be extended.

- Paul W. Homer

Source : Paul W. Homer blog

Interesting observation regarding project managment constraints

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:32:47 +0000

Yestarday I read an interesting article regarding different constraints which every project manager should have in mind when he manages a project. According to “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Fourth Edition” there are 6 constraints for every project (Schdeule, Resource, Scope, Risk, Budget, and Quality). Can you imagine how many possible decisions we have if every constraint has only ten levels of control? Yes, I can imagine they are 1 000 000. This result remember me the history of creator of the chess game who want’s from the king of Persia to put on the first square of the chess board one grain of wheat and after that to multiply by two for every next square until the last 64th square. The result of this operation was that the king would have been the poorest man in his kingdom if he give the wheat. So next time when you consider the best case scenarion have in mind this combinatorial explosion or you would suffer as king of Persia!