Feb
6
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
- Are we that good that some features work because of an unintentional side effect of a bug?
- I’ve heard of cloud computing, even ground computing, but I can’t wait until I can do intergalactic-interdimensional computing.
- Maintenance is a real full time job and it should be planned, scheduled, and budgeted accordingly.
- Maintainability is a feature.
- Team meetings should not feel like AA meetings.
- The debugger don’t lie, but the test might.
- Old legacy systems don’t die, they just complicate your architecture.
- Mashup data with dreams, feeds, and feelings…
Team Leadership
- Guilt is not the optimal way to inspire people to do what is right.
- Knowledge is like an fractal iceberg, and what you know is the tip of a snowflake in the tip of an iceberg in an ice planet.
- Usually there is only one way to win at a given time, but many ways to lose most of the time.
- When people don’t listen to the truth they are lying to themselves.
- Not all great ideas make for a good business.
- Thinking Asymmetrically!
Product Placement
- Should I get a Droid or wait for the new Google phone?
- Does Zuckerborg eat his own dog food when it comes to privacy, his real profile is not public, just his fan page in which he doesn’t post much.
- The only way Zuckerborg would appreciate privacy is if TMZ deployed their paparazzi on him.
- @zynga I would love to give points/credits as a gift in non-spammy and non-recurring way without signing up to services I don’t need.
- @zynga can I buy Cafe World gift card?
- I just got a subscription of Mobile Me. I like how I can track, lock down, and erase the data of my iPhone from the web.
- Got crack? There’s an app for that!
- Twitter should increase to 256 characters…
- Money don’t grow on trees, but with these prices for xmas trees you would think it does.
Quote
- What came first, chicken nuggets or the egg mcmuffin? – Little Jackie
- If I ask no questions I hear no lies. – Little Jackie.
- The Three Es of Good Work: Excellent, Engaging, and Ethical. – Howard Gardner
- The United States has been dominated by the three Ms: Money, Markets, and Me. – Howard Gardner
- If you can’t cover it up, turn it up. – Adam Curry/NA-152 #noagenda
- We have privatized our foreign policy – Philip Brenner
- The more complex an economy is, the more fragile it is, and the more cataclysmic its disintegration can be. – Bryan Ward-Perkins
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Dec
13
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
- If bad artists copy and great artists steal then bad programmers copy and great programmers cut and paste.
- You have to think outside our current requirements and think about solutions that fit the platform and which we can build product features.
- Can programmer mood/happiness be deciphered based on rate of check-ins, changelist, source code diff size, amount of refactoring?
- Software is alchemy. The magic of software is that it can turn complexity to simplicity.
- One man’s feature is another’s complexity.
Team Leadership
- A 10:00 PM design leads to 1:00 AM release leads to 8:00 AM FAIL.
- There are sore losers and sour winners!
- You may know your competitors, but do you know your complementor? Complementors are businesses and services that complement yours.
- Know thy competitor, and get to know thy complementor.
- The biggest risk is not taking risks.
- Don’t be afraid of someone stealing your idea, be afraid that someone is actually going to follow through with it
- Taking startup advice is like taking dating advice.
Product Placement
- Google Wave does not feel like a wave, it is more like a creek and I am without a paddle.
- I’m riding the Google Wave, but not drinking the Google Kool-Aid.
- It’s great that Apple invest in design and multi-touch tech, but they need to invest in water proof tech too. I’ve lost two ipods to water.
- I want to tether an iPod Touch with an iPhone.
- The iPhone is the PC.
- I have a growing collection of ebooks on my Kindle, in fact I have not bought a hard cover book since I got my Kindle over a year ago.
- Recharging my Kindle. It used to be that a book recharged my creativity and imagination now I have to recharge my ebook.
- FaceBook should just rename itself to FarmBook! All I see on FaceBook when I sign in are updates from FarmVille, Cafe World, etc…
- Will Microsoft port Google Go to the .NET platform? Why will they call it? G++? Iron Google Go? Google Go 2010 Business Edition?
- What will people abbreviate Google Go down to? GooGo? GoGo? Goo? Goog++? Golang? Pogo?
- ‘Python 300’ + ‘C++’ + Googleplex + $$$ + WTF = Google Go
Self Development
- Creditability is worth more than money in the bank.
- It is better to work on your own ideas than on someone else’s assumptions.
- To think outside the box it helps to first master the box.
- Don’t do what stops you from doing what you want to do unless that is what you want to do.
- You are damned if you do, damned if you don’t, and damned if you hesitate.
- If you don’t have the key to success, call on a locksmith.
Quotes
- The biggest motivation is not the money but the impact. – Matt Mullenweg/#TWiST 26
- You can’t build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature. – Matt Mullenweg/#TWiST 26
- I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks. – Matt Mullenweg/#TWiST 26
- Having a virtual assistant is one of the greatest training for managers. – Matt Coffin/#TWiST 27
- I only believe rumors that I start – Mike Elgan
- Wait a second, … you’ll waiting for me to take a risk, and then you’ll take a risk, that is not risk at all – @jason/#TWiST
- We spend more time worrying and planning for the downside than we do spend worrying and planning for the upside. – Mark Pincus/Zynga
- A lot of what you have to do as CEO is convince the employees that you are not a normal company. – Mark Pincus/Zynga
- If you don’t have control of your company, you are an employee. – Mark Pincus
- The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. – Eric Hoffer
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Nov
7
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
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Sep
8
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
- sudo gem install mixico; wishing sudo gem install vacation.
- Version control tools need a better way to diff source history than just diffing two versions of a file…
- If all bug defects are set to high priority, how are you to know, which one are really really really important ones?
- I have 20 bugs marked a high priority, but some are higher than others. In addition to the having a priority and severity on defects we need color code too, ‘high pink’ is lower than ‘high crimson.’
- Just remember, a two line fix can cost you a two hundred thousand dollar deal! Any code change to a production system must be tested.
- LOL, getting a NullPointerException in a method called initNullValues.
- Give me open source or give me piracy!
- Let your users help drive the development of your product, not the accountants.
Team Leadership
- Sometimes it seems that team meetings are anti-team building!
- You can still compare apples to oranges, but it is harder to compare apples to some ill-perceived subjective metric.
- Sometimes people tell you whatever you want to hear, because you are not listening to whatever they are trying to say.
- People are crazy, and you getting upset about other people’s craziness, will make you crazy.
- Not losing is not winning.
- Take your competitors and make them your competitive advantage.
Product Placement
- I don’t think Apple sponsored #iPhoneDevCamp 3, which is interesting because the iPhone dev camps generate a lot of business for Apple.
- One feature implemented in many MS products is to restrict other features unless you upgrade from the home to the super business edition.
- Why does Edible Arrangements require an answer to the following question ‘How did you hear about us?’ before I can place an order?
- Finally figured out how to cancel @UsWeekly, just typical of a old media company their web site/design/usability makes absolutely no sense!
- Facebook adds so many obstacles before you can follow someone… It’s like they don’t really want you to have friends.
- Updating and adding new plugins on my WordPress bloggie! Plugins are like bling for blog!
- You might have heard of ttyl, maybe of ttyn, but what about ttyat&t? ttyat&t: Talk To You if I get cell reception from AT&T.
Business Planning
- When you have lemons don’t just make lemonade, make lemon cake too!
- Having your mommy pay for your business plan is not a business plan.
- Everyone has a million dollar idea, I have a billion dollar idea, care to invest?
- Cash in your million dollar idea!
- If content is king, then context is like emperor.
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