gods wear hats

Anyone using Wordpress should beware some nasty hacks, like that recently suffered by my good friend. Creators of malware should every bone in their hands broken.  Twice.

MJ recently blogged about identifying one’s own strengths. I thought it would be useful to share a tool that I’ve used over the last seven years as a herder of cats (read: software development manager). I call it the self-development window (or the career development window, as I often use it for that [...]

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A point well made.

mj writes:

are university degrees worth the bother?
are universities correctly servicing the IT industry (and specifically the games dev market) with skills, knowledge, toolsets?
why have IT graduates decreased from 1900 in 2004 to 600 in 2007?
are we seeing a knock on effect from technology failures in the province, e.g. Nortel, Seagate
with the improvement of toolsets, a [...]

Software is not about code. It is about your company’s relationships. I have started seen companies with innovative products that use cutting edge technologies fail, simply because they didn’t understand their relationship with their customers, or didn’t understand it in time. Likewise, companies with demonstrably crap software (or even vaporware) thrive because [...]

I’ve had my MBP since November. Thanks to Moore’s Law, there is now a faster and shinier version available, which means that the price for a used 2.4Ghz MacBook Pro with the same specs as mine has dropped to about $2000 (according to eBay).
This is actually good news for me. I was considering [...]