Check Out The New Job Board!
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I hate large job boards.
They have low quality jobs and are littered with head hunting companies. Responding to a listing is like throwing emails into a black hole. My best jobs have been on personal recommendations, and for that reason I am proud to bring you - Codesqueeze Job Boards!
My first […]
Every Build You Break…
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Normally, I am not one for song, but Roy hits one out of the park with this Police parody.
Does Your Team Have STDs?
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I am reinventing the acronym STD to be - Software Team Disease. Software Team Diseases occur when your team adheres to a social or technical anti-pattern that impedes progress or defies common sense. Examples of STDs that I have written about before maybe be Developer Heroism, Project Scapegoats, or Hippie Socialism.
Often software teams […]
And The Winners Are… - 1st Annual Codequeeze Reader Awards
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Before I announce the winners, I want to give a big thanks to those that participated. It was a lot of fun interacting with readers offline about different topics and guest posts.
Because so many people did cool things in different ways, it was really hard to score people using my original “score sheet” method. […]
Squeezed Links: November 2007
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This is post #99 - on Friday I will announce the winners of the 1st Annual Squeezed Awards. Until then, enjoy the concentration of quality links across the web.
Technical Debt - A must read, Steve McConnell writes in length about Cunningham’s term Technical Debt.
Is That Juice On Your Face? - Another excellent post by […]
The Officers vs. Sergeants Syndrome
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Many managers do not have the needed “ground-level” project visibility to make good command decisions.
I would argue that most managers do not recognize this fact, and consequently bark ridiculous orders that do not make common sense. More pragmatic managers [aware of their detachment] consult lead developers and just end up echoing their […]
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