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Time Management & Invoicing

Long ago in a galaxy far, far away I worked on a project for an employer. They wanted some way for us developers (and eventually QA, and such) to track our time. The reason was two fold; see what we were spending our time on, and capitalize any new development in order to manage costs.
Well [...]

Scope Creep! I damn near killed her!

There really should be fines for those who indulge in either scope creep or over engineering a solution. I’m all for delivering a quality product, obviously. I’m a professional. However, delivering an over engineered solution that solves problems that people aren’t having, late, is not cool. In my experience users would rather have what they [...]

My version of Captcha

Rob Brooks Bilson has an interesting post on how CFX_captcha is (or was at the time of his post) is proving to be tough to beat.
For those (are there any) that don’t know, captcha systems are those annoying little things that ask us to type in some random string of letters and numbers.
As Rob points [...]

Paul Graham nuggets

I was killing some time at work today… ironic when you read this
Here are some really great quotes. I decided to pull a few quotes out in case you don’t want to read the whole article. Paul really does have some incredible insights into how developers think. He calls us hackers, which doea sometimes fit. [...]

He’s such a hard worker

Perception really is a powerful tool in the business world.
Towards the end of my time with Direcfit (now defunct) it became very clear that our CIO, was more interested in who he saw at 6pm, than who actually did the work. We had brought some one onto the team from another department, he’s a very [...]

Change Management… ARG

First things first. Backpack fucking rocks!! I’ve been using it to take notes where ever I am on topics I’d like to write about. Now I just gotta write about them. Here’s a rough draft of an essay I’m working on about Change Management in the Enterprise.
Change Management professionals have value… Everyone in the enterprise [...]

Not there yet?

I’ve been on a pretty high profile project for the last few months. My involvement is on and off, as my component is not all that involved. Some Changes to some CFCs, some modifications of the display pages, not much really.
On the other end, to support my efforts, a lot is needed, new Web Services, [...]