Once I asked an IBM employee that worked on the Eclipse project (a dev) how they could turn around builds so quickly and he said roughly paraphrasing “my current boss, most likely my next boss, and all my friends know what I said I’d do because it’s right there in the specs on the web. […]
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The California gub’nent
looks like it’s an example of an organization hovering around the FYO point, i.e., “the point at which you get so pissed off at your vendor that you completely reevaluate your software decision — you put everything back on the table.”
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In a FC Now post noting that the WSJ marketing dept. bans email on Friday (promoting more personal forms of communication like phone calls), Philip Reichert makes this interesting comment about email:
I experience of email is that people use it as a documentation tool. EG: If you have doubts about a project then you send […]
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“It tastes too good to be true”, via Davenetics.
The Economics of Software:
“The problem is that for all of the rhetoric about software becoming a ‘commodity,’ most software is still very much not a commodity: one software product is rarely completely interchangeable with another.”
Worry about more than your customers. Also, watch out with brand […]
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Tim Bray has an interesting note on IDE’s, via Netbeans 4: Netbeans stores it’s project info as an Ant build. This sounds like a cool concept. I wonder how many customized Ant tasks and property definitions there are though. Really, if there’s more than 1 or 2, it kind of invalidates the coolness of it. […]
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