Monthly Archive: July 2010

Lessons from Fred Brooks

Lessons from Fred Brooks

Brooks is one of my revered writers on the subject of software engineering. The basic lessons in The Mythical Man Month are so obvious and fundamental yet often obscured or forgotten in many of the projects that I’ve worked on....

HTML-ifying Text in SharePoint

HTML-ifying Text in SharePoint

This has probably been done to death, but here’s my version of how to “HTML-ify” HTML text in SharePoint calculated fields into rendered HTML using jQuery:

Perhaps the most interesting part of this script is the regular expression used...

Moving to WordPress and WebFaction

Moving to WordPress and WebFaction

For some time, I’ve had hosting with WebFaction for some personal python+django projects I was (well, am still…) working on while my main blog was hosted with ServerIntellect (a great hosting company, by the way). While WebFaction breaks one of...

Meeting Hell

Meeting Hell

From one of my favorite software engineering books, Eric Brechner’s I.M. Wright’s Hard Code: None of us is as dumb as all of us An especially evil form of interruption is the meeting.   A meeting forces you to stop productive...

The Math of Mediocrity

The Math of Mediocrity

Professionally, almost nothing aggravates me more than the Math of Mediocrity.  The only thing worse than observing failure based on the Math of Mediocrity is having to actively participate in it. Steve Jobs’ Parable of the Concept Car is a...