These are all speaking through experience Stubbornly kept on using deprecated code knowing that it will be remove from the code base in the next version, thereby hindering a smooth transition. Violating all of the company’s coding and naming standards making things difficult to trace for bugs when you go on leave all of a [...]
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17 Feb 09
3 Jan 09
I’ve been experimenting with different ways to manage releases (major and maintenance) and this resulted in a very good solution which i’ve been using for several weeks now. This is a fantastic tool for small to medium software companies and freelancers looking for a really cheap release management software to help their clients manage the [...]
4 Dec 08
Ever since i’ve starting working in the consulting business, and now in product development with a Fortune 20 company, i’ve always dreamt of having an online business. I’ve always hated the 8 hour grind everyday for 5 days a week, although the pay is great, but there’s something really exciting with working for yourself whether [...]
21 Sep 08
Admittedly I suck at first person shooters, so regardless of what I’m using I still suck, the only question is which one would allow me to suck a little less. I was using Microsoft’s Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 which is a bluetooth mouse that has terrible response time when it comes to gaming and is [...]
14 Sep 08
No i’m not talking about frameworks that addresses their own unique business needs. I’m talking about your ORMs, MVC web frameworks, javascript (including ajax) frameworks, but for now i’m talking about your everyday java enterprise application. There is at least one of this monstrocities that is being build in every big company under the pretense [...]
26 Aug 08
We all love our scripting languages with its simplicity, elegant and beautiful syntax, and the ability to quickly hack together a solution. One of the common features of most scripting languages is being weakly typed. Meaning that we don’t have to declare the variable’s data type before we use it; to some developers this is [...]
23 Aug 08
A few months ago I was doing some job hunting and i’ve come across some interesting job interviews in the process. Now I have a good mixture of full-time work and freelance work, and most of my freelance work consists of enterprise PHP web applications; while my full-time work primarily consists of J2EE and Oracle. [...]
8 Aug 08
During the course of my freelance work, i’ve encountered my fair share of conservative management. The fear, sometimes warranted, of migrating processes to use technology is staggering to the point of being absurd and sometimes humorous. Granted most of this businesses have experience using some form of technology, and they have been burned numerous times [...]
8 Aug 08
Hi! Welcome to my new home, a place to share technology related ideas and random rants. Also a place to post new development updates for a still to be announced venture.
