Here are a few more tips for becoming a better writer. Blogger even. Care about one reader — real or fictional. By the way, that blogger vs. writer thingy – Heather, who IS an excellent writer, has recently mentioned it. Somehow this led into a discussion about what I do for a living, and I … Continue reading Tips for better writing
Greg Olsen is very insirational and only slightly off balance in his Going Bedouin. A definite MUST READ. The primary reason software businesses don’t “go Bedouin” is because they think they don’t have to. Fatness is easy. Executives like to construct monuments. Managers like to build empires. Engineers and IT professionals like to buy and … Continue reading Going Bedouin
Via Web Worker Daily (excellent resource, by the way) I came across 11 tips for managing virtual workers. Side note. I love this. Back in high school times everyone and their brother were talking about how great office jobs are. As compared to the factory and plant assembly lines that is. During the college days, … Continue reading Remote office workers
I’m going to call today a Nudge-A-Friend Day. That is I am going to look around the blogs tha I care about and say which ones of those aren’t updated often enough, or haven’t been updated lately. Heck, I’ll just say something about all the blogs that I care about. Those are personal blogs. Those … Continue reading Nudge-A-Friend Day
Joel Spolsky shares why they have their own compiler and how long it took them to write it. Most people don’t realize that writing a compiler like this is only about 2 months work for one talented person who read the Dragon book. While compilers seem like a thing of the past for many in … Continue reading Your own compiler – should you or should you not?