{"id":1243,"date":"2010-12-19T10:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2010-12-19T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T17:40:36","slug":"retweet-november-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2010\/12\/19\/retweet-november-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweet November 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/techknow\">techknow<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/juixe\">juixe<\/a> and I&#8217;ll be sure to follow back.<\/p>\n<p><b>Software Development<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The worst class name of the day: PdfPTableEventable<\/li>\n<li>I be slaying bugs and zombie code from my killer app!<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know of it&#8217;s a good thing, a bad sign, or just 5PM when the hardest aspect of a feature is naming the database table!<\/li>\n<li>Writing convenience classes is being nice to your development team.<\/li>\n<li>What is the the &#8220;Hello, World&#8221; equivalent of entrepreneurship?  Lemonade stand?  T-shirt business? Blog network?<\/li>\n<li>In space no one can hear you scream, but in the internet everybody can hear you scream and they&#8217;ll remix you and add funny captions.<\/li>\n<li>It may be true that God created man in his own image. What I know as true is that developers implement features in their own self image.<\/li>\n<li>The other day I saw a book called programming for dummies.  I&#8217;m sorry but there are already to many dummies in this field, myself included.<\/li>\n<li>Math makes stuff possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Team Leadership<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hauling ass and kicking ass.<\/li>\n<li>Current success often hampers future success.<\/li>\n<li>I love problem solving, not problem bitching!<\/li>\n<li>No matter your problem it will be eclipsed by the sun going super nova.<\/li>\n<li>If you going to bring it you got to bring it with full force.<\/li>\n<li>Be quick to compromise, buy slow to relent.<\/li>\n<li>There is strength is self managing teams.<\/li>\n<li>If you going to throw rocks, you best bring your catapult!<\/li>\n<li>It may be true that the customers is always right, but very often he is also unsure and insecure.<\/li>\n<li>Cheerleaders are anything but leaders, they are mostly followers. Give me a original idea!<\/li>\n<li>Often times the fundamentals are fundamentally wrong.<\/li>\n<li>Theory yields to practice, practice cedes to skill, skill submits to experience.<\/li>\n<li>Big companies have big visions, but most importantly they have big problems.  Often times addressing those big problems stifles innovation.<\/li>\n<li>There should never be a anointed team leader, leadership should not be a single player, leadership should be the ball that is passed around.<\/li>\n<li>Asking team members if they are done with x, y, and z and you don&#8217;t know that they are working on a, b, and c is a broken process.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t wait for an idea to run away with, take the first idea that strikes you out for a walk, maybe some coffee.<\/li>\n<li>There are several ways to meet a challenge, one is not make eye contact and see if it passes you by, the other is to walk right and say hi.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of trying to build a better mousetrap why not put your efforts to build a better mouse?<\/li>\n<li>Status quo is the enemy.<\/li>\n<li>Refactor, remix, and remaster company culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Product Placement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even Facebook&#8217;s design looks like big brother designed it.  It has a plastic government agency feel.<\/li>\n<li>Most of Facebook&#8217;s features resemble social oriented spam.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook is what you do when you want to be social when you don&#8217;t want to be social.<\/li>\n<li>Can Tumblr be a Facebook alternative?<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with Amazon Customer Support and returns has left me feeling sad and upset, I feel so low that I feel like shopping!<\/li>\n<li>The next big Google product is not being built in Google.<\/li>\n<li>The only musical instrument I know how to play is my iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t wait until Steve Jobs makes an iPhone that you can control with your mind.  Forget the iTouch, I want my iThough!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Thanksgiving<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pass me a gravy IV, stat!<\/li>\n<li>The turkey has landed.<\/li>\n<li>Happy Turkey and Stuffing Day.<\/li>\n<li>Let there be stuffing.<\/li>\n<li>Yum yams<\/li>\n<li>Thankful and grateful, and just plain full.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ll be sure to follow back. 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