There is no doubt: The environment in which software is designed, produced and maintained has fundamental impact on what comes out below the bottom line for all players playing in this game. I have learnt that there is little in software development, you can do intuitively right the first time – even if you have [...]
Archive for November, 2008
November 28, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Software development
Social Tagging: culture • development • team
Filed under: Software development
Social Tagging: culture • development • team
Sometimes you come accross something and pause thinking ‘I have experienced exactly that’. So it happend when I read Scott Ambler’s post ‘Bureaucracy Isn’t Discipline’. Here are the main points and in my view ammunition for philosophical discussions: Successful agile practices demand great discipline and require significant skill and experience to actually get stuff done. [...]
I have just discovered an issue if you store serialized objects into MySql. At first I used fieldtype TEXT. If in this case somebody edited another field of such a record with phpMyAdmin and pushed the save button, the stored object in that record got currupted and the object could not be deserialized and instanciated [...]
November 14, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Problems, Serverstuff
Social Tagging: 404 • http
Filed under: Problems, Serverstuff
Social Tagging: 404 • http
I have an individual CMS running for a customer, who can edit his events, news etc. in a typical admin area. Each of the items had an expiry date. On any call to a deep URL to one of the expired items (e.g. from Google search results) it would make a redirect to the custom [...]
November 9, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Inspiration, Podcasts, Softskills
Social Tagging: culture • innovation • Podcasts
Filed under: Inspiration, Podcasts, Softskills
Social Tagging: culture • innovation • Podcasts
Here are the thoughts taken from a lecture of Judy Estrin (CEO of JLABS, LLC) on innovation recorded in October 2008 at Stanford University: Core Values of Innovation: Curiosity and ability to frame open questions. Instead of ‘Do you need this feature?’ you could ask ‘What are you currently working on?’ or ‘What are your [...]
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