Not that I am remodeling, or anything that ambitious, but I have some advice nonetheless. When you remodel say a bathroom, and there are two sinks (his/hers, very common), don't buy just two sets of fixtures. Buy a spare. This is so that in 5/7/10...
Physicists = bad developers
I was in a meeting yesterday, and our engineering director made an offhand comment that made me cringe. He commented that our principal developer for one of our products (he really is the only programmer) "like most good programmers" was a physici...
Modified Joke – Product Manager, the Lawyer and the doctor
A doctor, a lawyer and a product manager were discussing the relative meritsof having a wife or a mistress. The lawyer says: "For sure a mistress is better. If you have a wife andwant a divorce, it causes all sorts of legal problems." The doctor s...
Lost hour of productivity
Gotta whine. About once a month, I get an error in Outlook. Something to the point of "OUt of resources" yada yada. And it advises to "close some programs to free up memory..." Has that EVER worked? Sigh. I have 16 gigs, and am running 64-bit Wind...
Ok, I get it already, we lose orders because we don’t have feature X
I recently joined this company, and inherited a product that is world class. But it is missing a pretty important capability (to be fair, when the product was originally developed, this was a feature that wasn't even a twinkling in the eye of the ...