Blackened Humor
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The Black Art of Programming
Look, I've been doing this for 25 years. I have a right to be jaded.
| Object-Oriented Zen |
How do we deal with the situation where we report on the number of billing records that were lost (by type, of course) by looking at the billing records that were never created?
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| An Elliptical Rant |
The size of the stone doesn't matter; the fact that water falls over it does. |
| Concepts of Architecture |
(And as someone who appreciates what is left of the English language, that sentence reminds me once again that there is no word which cannot be adjectived.)
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| Seeking Geek Mythology Trivia |
It struck me that the Sirens had certain parallels in modern society. |
| Open Heart Programming |
This falls into a difficult class of mutual remote procedural calls, sometimes known as remote coprocessing.
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| Conversations from the Old Programmer's Home |
The IBM Jargon Dictionary states that the true old-timers will be buried stacked, 9-edge-aligned face-down. |
| Justifiable Homicide |
The most important planning effort was to create a "plan for a plan."
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| Platform Wars |
I hate people who argue about Macs and PCs when they could be arguing about better things. |
| *sound and *fury |
Let's set aside the whole Microsoft-Linux thing for a sec, shall we? Let's substitute something that's less emotionally charged, like Jews and Palastinians, or Serbs and Croats. |
| Warm Fuzzies |
Warm fuzzies are when people tell you: "Better you than me." "How's your 401K?" |
The cynicism is a way of coping with a difficult and often frustrating business. If you'd like to see the serious side, see my web design pages.
It's probably a good idea to put a disclaimer here. Nothing expressed in any of the linked web pages is unique to any software shop. The problems I rant about in these writings are endemic. It is the nature of large software projects to be poorly understood. "Software management" is an oxymoron.
It was probably best stated by the well-known philosopher Attribution Dammit, who once said, "Managing programmers is like herding cats."
Copyright © 1995-1997, 2001 by Diane Wilson. All rights reserved.