Many times I’ve heard professionals talk and plan out building software applications. Great ideas they’d like seen implemented, and how it could make things better. Though might not seem obvious – software applications, at least the good, are never built. Applications are grown.[1] There’s quite the range of differences between building an application and growing one, but I’ll focus...
I just realized that Dale Carnegie’s principles are less than 140 characters each 😉 So – here they are in bite size. [retweet URLs reference the wiki article] And here they are in YAML Fundamental Techniques in Handling People Retweet Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain. Retweet Give honest and sincere appreciation. Retweet Arouse in the other person an eager...
Now, it’s becoming even more vivid. The Internet has grown beyond its abstract boundaries and further into reality. Iran election has started as may be yet another election, peaceful and hopeful. For all parties. With the spread of voter fraud allegations, and suspicions over the way and speed by which the votes were counted, Iranian masses started to mobilize....
With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the Sun’s blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world NASA Cassini Saturn Mission Imaging Highlights TED Talk Stunning!
After intending to dual boot my unstable Vista into Ubuntu for a while, I finally had enough time this weekend to do it. Let me just say that Ubuntu is living up to its claim of making Linux for Human Beings. The boot from Ubuntu CD was a no-go. I found that Wubi would essentially install Ubuntu (without the...
Apparently I was marketing some medications through this blog. After dwindling Google result ranking, I discovered that my old installation of wordpress (ancient 2.1) was vulnerable enough to allow unauthorized template modifications. All is fine now isA. Do you still have the adverts for the medications? I was looking to buy some but can’t find a reputable company.Just kidding...
The amount of corn needed to produce a full tank of gas for an SUV is enough to feed a person for a whole year. The 2008 World Development Report “Agriculture for Development†provides a compelling example of the food-for-fuel debate: over 240 kilograms (or 528 pounds) of corn – enough to feed one person for a whole year...
This is serious. The United Nations’ World Food Program has been hit so hard by skyrocketing grain prices that it may be forced to cut off some food aid to the world’s poorest countries, while the United States is planning to turn record quantities of corn into automotive fuel. Cereal grain import prices for the world’s poorest countries are...
How would it be like if our sales-person shared a few hours of his time acting as an observer on implementing a user story with one of the developers? What if our HR manager set aside a part of her Monday to watch a developer troubleshooting an application or setting up a deployment script? If software development is at...
These images have been glued to my brain since I first saw them. A masterpiece by Jeff Patton that rang lots of bells. via Obie Fernandez.