Checking Out Code on a Library Schedule

Your local public library lets you check out books for a few weeks at a time. Developers shouldn’t ever use this as a model, but it can happen. A developer new to a language or framework is afraid to check in. Instead they wait sometimes weeks before checking in their first code. My idea [...]

Crisp Meetings

A good crisp meeting can be better than strolling through leaves on a fall day. By crisp I mean:

The meeting has an agenda. The agenda went out far in advance. The leading has a strong owner who facilitates or helps keep the meeting on track. The meeting starts on time. Late people are ignored [...]

Beach Email

Kids putting the final touches on a grand sandcastle while their dad hunches over a blackberry thumbs on the keys.

We take an annual family beach vacation every year. Two years ago my brother in law turned up with a Blackberry and was constantly checking email over the course of the week to the point [...]