3, 4, 5, 9, 10
Via Fark, I came across a short article by Gregory P. Smith titled “Top 10 Reasons Why People Quit Their Jobs“. The interesting bit is the conclusion drawn by Smith: Interesting, isn’t it — that all ten factors begin with...
Category: Rants
Taking a Stand for Mother Nature
Despite all those Discovery channel shows, sharks are still one of the most misunderstood animals in the oceans. They are magnificent creatures who’s ferocity, for the most part, is exaggerated due to the media frenzy that occurs with each shark...
Big Changes Around the Corner
C# 2.0 has barely been with us and already, the 3.0 spec is shaping up. While the change from 1.0 to 2.0 was dramatic in the way that it simplified what used to be quite laborious tasks in C#, the...
The Lowest Common Denominator
Came across a great line by Scott Storch, one of the mega-producers in the music industry today while I was flipping through Rolling Stone: “It’s a chore for me to hold back my mind to do this simple shit…People want...
So, Apparently, Teamwork is Counterproductive…
Teamwork is not easy. It never is. Whether it’s basketball, football, sales, construction, or software, it’s difficult to instill a sense of team and ensure that everyone operates as a member of a team. There are individual egos to deal...
Sad State of Manufacturing in America
Over at engadget, a headline caught my eye today: “Chinese workers reportedly toil in the ‘iPod City’“. It’s certainly nothing that we haven’t heard before, overseas labor is so cheap these days, who can compete with American labor and just...
Enterprise Library 2.0 Logging Quirks
So I’ve been working with Enterprise Library 2.0 (EL2) Logging Application Block recently and I’ve come across some quirks that are puzzling me. First, I’ve been using log4net for most of my logging in the past. Recently, I’ve taken a...
The Little Things that Count
Maybe it’s just me, but there are some little things that bug me to no end (my wife thinks I’m slightly OCD). Lately, it’s bad spelling and grammar. I don’t know, I simply don’t think it’s acceptable in an age...
Still Not There Yet…
I don’t understand the fascination with using Word documents for internal development specs. For one thing, a Word document is very inefficient when it comes to conveying matters of code and design. No syntax highlighting. It constantly warns me that...
I Confess…
I’m a code perfectionist. I like nice code. Nicely formatted. Nicely structured. Nicely designed code. Of course, first and foremost, the code must do what it is designed to do; it must fulfill its functional spec. But any programmer worth...