Archive for the 'Geek' Category

Geek Empowerment

04Feb12

A colleague at work was recently asked to gather requirements from his users before progressing some clever ideas he had about some of our products.  He responded with a Henry Ford quote from many years ago: ”If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”. I found myself agreeing with him, [...]

The Rise And Fall Of Waterfall

10Feb10

The Ultimate Top 25 Chuck Norris “The Programmer” Jokes

16Jun09

http://www.codesqueeze.com/the-ultimate-top-25-chuck-norris-the-programmer-jokes/ “6. Chuck Norris doesn’t need garbage collection because he doesn’t call .Dispose(), he calls .DropKick().” … ROFL

Labelling Bugs as Features

12Jun09

Thoughts on Importance of Knowledge Sharing

26May09

Agile Hitler

05May09

Thanks to Max at codesqueeze for an introduction to Agile Hitler with Hitler’s Nightly Build Breaks. Found a few others as well… Hitler does unit testing The Downfall of Agile Hitler Even more Hitler gems: No Twitter for Hitler Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live

Did You Know?

05Mar09

Insane…

Progress

31Jan08

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Twas the Night Before Implementation

14Dec07

Couldn’t find a reference for this, my apologies to the author … ‘Twas the night before implementation and all through the house, Not a program was working not even a browse. The programmers hung by their tubes in despair, with hopes that a miracle would soon be there. The users were nestled all sung in [...]

Every Build You Break (feat. The Police)

29Nov07

Roy Osherove sings about continuous integration and other agile concepts …




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