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ideas on getting software, engineering, and management to work /robert gable/

distinguish between software engineers and programmers

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April 20, 2006 in hiring | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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

November 15, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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

November 12, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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

November 12, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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

November 12, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

corporate blog appropriately

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

November 12, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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

November 05, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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

November 05, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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

November 05, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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

November 04, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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