I’m not sure which side of the fence I sit on the issue of open collaboration space vs. private offices for software development teams. I’ve been on teams where each has been successful. Currently my team sits in a fairly open space and I know we are interrupted many time per day by co-workers taking personal calls from their General Contractors, talk about what happened on Survivor the night befor
Yes some idiot wrote a book based on the false notion that refactoring is all about stopping a project in the middle to pick a new design pattern. What a joke.
Friends and family are always asking me for advice when looking for a hosting provider. This is a glowing review of CrystalTech.com from Andrew Connell.
Greetings! It was a tough decision but I have moved my blog to bargelt.com. Thanks for visiting!
I am quickly running out of hard drive space. My current home network consists of four PC workstations – a combination of desktops and laptops, two Xboxes and two servers. The servers are all old (dual proc P3s) bust still serve a purpose. Every time I need more drive space I buy whatever is on sale at Fry’s and shove it in one of my servers. No RAID, no redundancy. I do run nightly backups of the
My buddy JohnBoy has an awesome entry that shows about the power of the Internet and blogging in particular. He is a Real Estate Agent located in Washington state and a new client located in North Carolina (roughly 3000 miles away) found him and decided to work with him via his blog. That is awesome.
This may be old news but just stumbled across NSurvey – very cool stuff.
Recently I've been thinking about teaching a programming class at my son's elementary school (grades K-5). This would be an after-school hour long class once (may be twice) per week for 6-8 weeks probably restricted to 4th and 5th graders. The school has a nice computer lab with 20 fairly new Dell desktops. Lets assume that I have until the beginning December 2005 to get something setup (research, pla