Aug 20 2010

Retweet July 2010

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back.

Software Development

  • If developers think that QA is going to find all their design problems, they are doing it wrong.
  • Code wants to be dynamic.
  • Unlike what it sounds like, Extreme Programming isn’t a spectator sport where you jump off a ramp with your favorite IDE.
  • The web needs an open standard API for user badges and achievements.
  • Social network sites should adopt a open standard API for user badges and achievements!
  • The user interface made me do it!
  • Show me the money, show me the data.
  • Technology will date you, as in it will give away your age, like if your used a floppy vs a thumb drive vs neural memory implant..
  • I’m sure Hallmark has a card for that, to show our appreciation to the QAs in our lives.
  • The meek shall inherit the earth, the geek shall inherit an earth simulation on some social virtual game running on the cloud.
  • Can you debug dreams?
  • Men are digital, women are analog.
  • Refactor yourself!
  • Trust No Technology

Team Leadership

  • Good things come to those that make them happen.
  • Cut out the 20% from Pareto’s Principle from your process.
  • Follow your dreams and you will be your own leader!
  • Our attitude affects the outcome of our experiences and that is reflected in our perspective which influences our attitude.
  • Fear is a virus of the mind!
  • Some people are proud instead of productive.
  • Sometimes we need to accept and move forward before we can understand.
  • One persons Epic Fail is another’s FTW!
  • If you don’t remember when you took a vacation last, you need a vacation!
  • There are somethings that we are just not going to understand, but that we need to accept.
  • If better is not easier and cheaper then it’s not.
  • Just because something is better (function) doesn’t mean it’s better (form).
  • You have to feed, exercise, and train your creativity before you can make it work for you.

Product Placement

  • GIA: Google Intelligence Agency. FBI: FaceBook of Investigations.
  • Is Facebook too big to fail or just big enough to get regulated?
  • And then Steve Jobs said, “Let there be multi-touch.”
  • Cost Plus World Market should really rename itself to 3rd World Market since they mostly sell trinkets from under developed world.
  • CVS has the widest and weirdest selection, they sell everything from hard liquor to underwear. It’s basically my party supply store.
  • Someone should invent foursquare for fictional places, I would like to check I the Star Wars Cantina.
  • I wish iTunes could organize songs by mood in addition to genre and album.

Overheard

  • OH: Awww, that gansta cute.
  • OH: Travel is my drug of choice, I rather go on a real trip than a hallucinogenic trip.
  • OH: I woke up so tired from that dream because I was running in it.
  • OH: It’s very hard sometimes to think on your own.
  • OH: when you are a parent and are dealing with your kids, you have to be the bigger person.
  • OH: I’m sorry for whatever I did in your dream that made you upset, trust me that is not typical of my behavior in other people’s dreams.
  • OH: It’s not that you did anything wrong, it’s that you didn’t do anything spectacular.

Quotes

  • Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. – Anonymous
  • Everyone specializes in their own area of weakness. – Rothbard’s Law
  • Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. – Wirth’s Law
  • It is not how much you make that counts, but how much money you keep. – Robert Kiyosaki
  • All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you. – Prince
  • Hope. Deleted – Emotionless Wine Bucket #futurama
  • There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach
  • Control the music industry? Check. Control the publishing industry? Check. Control-alt-delete? Never. – @ceoSteveJobs
  • I bet if they had Yelp in 1850, nobody would have taken the Oregon Trail. – @badbanana
  • People don’t like to be sold, but they love to buy. – Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Welcome, to the real world. – Morpheus
  • I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. – HAL
  • Would you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict? – John Waters

Nov 7 2009

Retweet October 2009

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back.

Software Development

  • I can haz codebyte!
  • Hacks are in the eye of the debugger.
  • Is there a werewolf in your software, then why do you need a silver bullet?
  • I know HACK is a four letter word but it is not a bad four letter word.
  • It is okay to paint by numbers but its something different to code by numbers. I code by polynomials.
  • If it doesn’t matter either way, why not choose the option that is easier to implement, cleaner to design, and friendlier to use.
  • Content is the killer app.
  • They say those who can’t do, teach. Well, those that can’t create content, aggregate.

Team Leadership

  • The sooner you adapt, the wider your lead.
  • Don’t nickel-and-dime old business assumptions.
  • When leading the way, be sure to get out of the way. As a leader you don’t want to be a roadblock or bottle neck to the troops.
  • A manager should do two things: give precise tasks and expect precise results.
  • Don’t confuse opinion for advice, don’t confuse advice for a plan.
  • Even a detailed schedule can’t predict the future.
  • Sometimes schedules are another way we lie to ourselves.
  • Time does not run on a schedule.
  • A good skill is to identify the skillset of your team, a better skill is to improve those skills while leveraging them to the fullest.
  • Little baby steps add up to giant leaps for mankind.

Product Placement

  • In Windows, when you overwrite a file instead of replacing it without a trace, the OS should put a copy in the recycle bin first.
  • You can learn a lot about someone by taking a look at their FarmVille farm.
  • Is Twitter lists just another metric for users to have a pissing match on Twitter? If comparing followers wasn’t enough…
  • Why is it that installing ImageMagick is a longer and more painful process than upgrading OSX?

Self Dev

  • In certain task I am worth my weight in gold, in others I am worth my weight in lead, but I do my best to avoid tasks were I cost my weight.
  • Many people will ask for out of the box ideas, but they don’t want ideas too far away from the box, more like ideas hovering around the box.
  • It’s okay to have your cake and eat it to, as long as you bake the cake yourself…
  • Be a double agent of change.
  • On man’s problem, is another man’s opportunity.
  • Authenticity has no substitute.
  • Not failing fast enough is the biggest failure.
  • Failure is when you don’t learn from it.
  • You have to kill it to win it.
  • Fail frequently, fast, and furious
  • If I played baseball I would be the GM.

Questions

  • What is the opposite of a trophy wife?
  • Do you have a failure resume?
  • Is Facebook to big to fail?
  • How many tweets does it take to get a trend?
  • There are wrinkle free pants, when will we see tangle free headphones?
  • Which is best Happily Ever After or Happily Ever Now?
  • What does it mean to ‘trust the chicken?’
  • Do you have to sell out to get buy in?
  • If you are not passionate, who do you expect your team to be passionate?

Quotes

  • Good ideas are simple. – @jason
  • Money is the shortcut. – @garyvee
  • Great entrepreneurs don’t have better ideas, they have better process. – Eric Ries
  • Pay attention to pixels. – Bump Technologies Job Listing