eworks :: software + engineering + management

distinguish between software engineers and programmers

From the new JobSyntax blog

persuade with authority

'Instead, he played "I'm an authority and I'm looking out for your best interests" and that hooked me.' Robert Scoble

read 'software project survival guide' by steve mcconnell

"As I was reading the book, I had to keep checking the published date because a lot of the concepts in the book are core agile tenets." Darrell Norton

emulate software with an fpga

"How do you put a one-dollar Intel™ 8051 microprocessor into an FPGA without using 10 dollars’ worth of FPGA fabric?" Lance Roman and Brad Fayette

try trac

"For the browsing and management of your project's code and knowledge, Trac (running on top of Subversion) takes on and beats the usual mixture of cvsweb + Bugzilla + SomeRandomWiki for 90% of tasks."  Yoz Grahame

corporate blog appropriately

"Never change the URL of your weblog."  Robert Scoble

state the problem

'The statement "The starter motor is not getting power" is significantly easier to troubleshoot than "My car won't start".' Adrian Taylor

use the msh shell

"At its core, MSH is an object pipeline." Jon Udell

"At this point you should be able to kick the tires on our 3 main user experiences:

1)      Simple CLI experience
2)      Simple scripting experience
·        Unix-style text processing
·        WSH-style OLE Automation processing
·        MSH-style Object processing
3)      Sophisticated scripting experience.
·        Rich control structures
·        Script blocks
·        Access to .NET APIs" jsnover

don't do what you love

"Others make less money but still are happy, but millions of people have followed their passion and still haven't earned enough money to even pay back their student loans, let alone make a middle-class living doing what they're passionate about." Marty Nemko

improve an organization's software engineering

"Identifying, developing, consolidating, disseminating, and otherwise synthesizing best practices for engineering, to improve the engineering process across all of Microsoft, that's what we're about." William Adams