What’s In A Name?

It is quite often that I meet new & interesting people. It is one of my favorite things to do, and something that I spend a good portion of my time doing. Often, these meet & greets are fairly personable, and curiosity comes forth in both directions. Sometimes I will find myself asking someone what [...]

One. Two. Tweet. What Do You Mean?

Yesterday on the drive to pickup my daughter from school, I had a few minutes to my own thoughts, and I started to pondered about the true value of Twitter. I know this seems as if I have nothing better to do with my thoughts, but I have been slowly using the service more, read [...]

am i a certified a$$hole?

Turns out…no. I scored a big fat 0.  Try it out and see where you stand…
Step 1.
Find Out With the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE)…it’s a 24 question hole-in-oscopy!
Step 2.

…then maybe pick up…

…but definitely check out Bob Sutton’s [...]

there’s nothing functional about a functional spec

Useless Specs
A “spec” is close to useless. I have never seen a spec that was both big enough to be useful and accurate.
And I have seen lots of total crap work that was based on specs. It’s the single worst way to write software, because it by definition means that the software was written to [...]