Let’s assume you are manager (or just part of) a small department. The task of the department is to make sure that everybody in the company is using Grglwup for wumpeling and does so in the correct way. What do you do to achieve that?
The approach I see most of the times lets me wonder, [...]
When diving into the world of blogs and twitter it can be confusing to get started. Which blog should you read? Whom to follow on twitter? When you are in software development I have an idea for you. Why don’t you check out the authors of the agile manifesto? Here they are with their blogs [...]
Many companies lately come to the conclusion, that they have to do something about this social web thingy. But when I listen to the discussions, I feel like traveling back in time to the end of the last millenium, when everybody thought the web (release 1.0 at that time) was the way to print money. [...]
Trees are everywhere in software! The file system is a tree structure, menus form a tree structure, the archive widget on the right side of this blog is a tree structure. We use trees all the time. And very often they get completely messed up. I’d say 9 out of 10 project folders are a [...]
Are you aware that I know a lot about you? You don’t believe me? Here you go: You are smart! You are constantly trying to improve your skills! You are probably better at what you do for a living than most of your colleagues!
Wow, how did I do that? Simple: You are reading my blog. [...]
Some days ago I was asked to set up a tomcat server for SSL. You’d think this is a no brainer. And it actually is when you proceed along the paved path. But if you deviate only a little, you are in big trouble. I solved the trouble I got in, and here is my [...]
Some time ago I posted a question on Stackoverflow which I thought wouldn’t interest many people: “How to learn Cobol“. Yet the question attracted about 1K views and got upvoted 16 times, making it the top question I asked so far. A couple of days ago I found out the reason for this. Jeff Attwood [...]
Some of the customers I am working for have an extremely crappy office environment. On the other hand the office we work in at LINEAS are rather nice. This contrast makes me realize how big a difference a decent work environment is. After all: how important can you and your work be, if you don’t [...]
Jurgen Appelo wrote a great Article about his new strategy to read books in a parallel and non-sequential way. He uses sticky notes to mark the chapters he read in a book, thereby allowing him to read the most important unread chapter whenever he wants to read.
I like the concept, but it does not work [...]
I just watched a german video about the total control through the BKA (a German organisation comparable to the FBI).
The attempts to control everything and everybody is based on the common misconception, that more security technology means more security. Often the opposite is true.
I don’t even want to talk about the ‘Bundestrojaner’, malware that is [...]