{"id":855,"date":"2009-09-08T23:04:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T06:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=855"},"modified":"2009-09-08T23:04:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T06:04:40","slug":"retweet-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/09\/08\/retweet-august-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweet August 2009"},"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>sudo gem install mixico; wishing sudo gem install vacation.<\/li>\n<li>Version control tools need a better way to diff source history than just diffing two versions of a file&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>If all bug defects are set to high priority, how are you to know, which one are really really really important ones?<\/li>\n<li>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, &#8216;high pink&#8217; is lower than &#8216;high crimson.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>LOL, getting a NullPointerException in a method called initNullValues.<\/li>\n<li>Give me open source or give me piracy!<\/li>\n<li>Let your users help drive the development of your product, not the accountants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Team Leadership<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sometimes it seems that team meetings are anti-team building!<\/li>\n<li>You can still compare apples to oranges, but it is harder to compare apples to some ill-perceived subjective metric.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes people tell you whatever you want to hear, because you are not listening to whatever they are trying to say.<\/li>\n<li>People are crazy, and you getting upset about other people&#8217;s craziness, will make you crazy.<\/li>\n<li>Not losing is not winning.<\/li>\n<li>Take your competitors and make them your competitive advantage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Product Placement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think Apple sponsored #iPhoneDevCamp 3, which is interesting because the iPhone dev camps generate a lot of business for Apple.<\/li>\n<li>One feature implemented in many MS products is to restrict other features unless you upgrade from the home to the super business edition.<\/li>\n<li>Why does Edible Arrangements require an answer to the following question &#8216;How did you hear about us?&#8217; before I can place an order?<\/li>\n<li>Finally figured out how to cancel @UsWeekly, just typical of a old media company their web site\/design\/usability makes absolutely no sense!<\/li>\n<li>Facebook adds so many obstacles before you can follow someone&#8230;  It&#8217;s like they don&#8217;t really want you to have friends.<\/li>\n<li>Updating and adding new plugins on my WordPress bloggie!  Plugins are like bling for blog!<\/li>\n<li>You might have heard of ttyl, maybe of ttyn, but what about ttyat&amp;t? ttyat&amp;t: Talk To You if I get cell reception from AT&amp;T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Business Planning<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you have lemons don&#8217;t just make lemonade, make lemon cake too!<\/li>\n<li>Having your mommy pay for your business plan is not a business plan.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has a million dollar idea, I have a billion dollar idea, care to invest?<\/li>\n<li>Cash in your million dollar idea!<\/li>\n<li>If content is king, then context is like emperor.<\/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. Software Development sudo gem install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,44,45,39,40,41,28,43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-dN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}