By J. Timothy King on July 27, 2006
Back in the Windows 95 days, I was a huge Microsoft proponent. When Netscape sicked the U.S. DoJ on them, I was on their side. What happened since then? I’m a Linux user. That is to say, all of my home computers run Linux. The one at work doesn’t, but that’s a long story, which […]
Posted in Professionalism
By J. Timothy King on July 27, 2006
Steve Pavlina’s recent posts 10 Myths About Self-Employment and 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job inspired me to create my own top-ten list.
Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Steve Pavlina |
By J. Timothy King on July 25, 2006
I never would have bought this book for myself. I won it in a drawing at InBubbleWrap.com. I’m not sure what made me enter the drawing. Maybe it was, Eh, it sounds moderately interesting, and it’s free. Or maybe it’s that I have a soft, cuddly spot in my heart for Build-a-Bear Workshop. And as […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Software Development |
By J. Timothy King on July 21, 2006
How DeMarco, Lister, and Cockburn Helped Me Find a Better Job (Part 2) (Part 1 was posted yesterday.) After four months of teamicide, Peopleware-style, I was ready to die. And when HR or my manager asked me, I told them the truth.
Posted in Personal Improvement, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged Alistair Cockburn, Crystal Clear, Peopleware, Tim Lister, Tom DeMarco |
By J. Timothy King on July 20, 2006
Two years ago, I was enthusiastic, energized, and about to plunge into depression. I was enthusiastic and energized because I had started a new job two months before, and I was in a position where I could make choices, and I knew I could make the right choices. I was stretching myself beyond what I […]
Posted in Personal Improvement, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged Alistair Cockburn, Crystal Clear, Peopleware, Tim Lister, Tom DeMarco |
By J. Timothy King on July 16, 2006
As part of Steve Pavlina’s Million Dollar Experiment, participants claim to have manifested over 1.5 million dollars, just by wishing for it. Are they just fooling themselves? Or is there something different they’re doing? Is there something different that successful people do that the rest avoid? I think there is, and I knew what it […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Personal Improvement | Tagged Steve Pavlina |
By J. Timothy King on July 11, 2006
Why do programmers hate writing unit tests? Why do they hate even more writing unit tests before coding? You don’t have to answer. I’ve already heard the excuses. These are rhetorical questions. I have a theory, however, what the real reasons are.
Posted in Software Development | Tagged testing, unit tests |
By J. Timothy King on July 1, 2006
This is a story about my first software management success. It’s also a story about my first software management failure. It was a success, because the work got completed, and without any nasty surprises. It was a failure, because I could have made the team more efficient, and I didn’t. Both of these are good […]
Posted in Leadership, Management, Software Development, Stories, Tales of a Wanna-Be Software Entrepreneur, True Stories | Tagged code, refactoring, software engineering |