{"id":901,"date":"2009-11-07T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T17:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=901"},"modified":"2009-11-07T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T17:56:53","slug":"retweet-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/11\/07\/retweet-october-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweet October 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>I can haz codebyte!<\/li>\n<li>Hacks are in the eye of the debugger.<\/li>\n<li>Is there a werewolf in your software, then why do you need a silver bullet?<\/li>\n<li>I know HACK is a four letter word but it is not a bad four letter word.<\/li>\n<li>It is okay to paint by numbers but its something different to code by numbers.  I code by polynomials.<\/li>\n<li>If it doesn&#8217;t matter either way, why not choose the option that is easier to implement, cleaner to design, and friendlier to use.<\/li>\n<li>Content is the killer app.<\/li>\n<li>They say those who can&#8217;t do, teach. Well, those that can&#8217;t create content, aggregate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Team Leadership<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sooner you adapt, the wider your lead.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t nickel-and-dime old business assumptions.<\/li>\n<li>When leading the way, be sure to get out of the way.  As a leader you don&#8217;t want to be a roadblock or bottle neck to the troops.<\/li>\n<li>A manager should do two things: give precise tasks and expect precise results.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t confuse opinion for advice, don&#8217;t confuse advice for a plan.<\/li>\n<li>Even a detailed schedule can&#8217;t predict the future.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes schedules are another way we lie to ourselves.<\/li>\n<li>Time does not run on a schedule.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Little baby steps add up to giant leaps for mankind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Product Placement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>You can learn a lot about someone by taking a look at their FarmVille farm.<\/li>\n<li>Is Twitter lists just another metric for users to have a pissing match on Twitter?  If comparing followers wasn&#8217;t enough&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that installing ImageMagick is a longer and more painful process than upgrading OSX?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Self Dev<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Many people will ask for out of the box ideas, but they don&#8217;t want ideas too far away from the box, more like ideas hovering around the box.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s okay to have your cake and eat it to, as long as you bake the cake yourself&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Be a double agent of change.<\/li>\n<li>On man&#8217;s problem, is another man&#8217;s opportunity.<\/li>\n<li>Authenticity has no substitute.<\/li>\n<li>Not failing fast enough is the biggest failure.<\/li>\n<li>Failure is when you don&#8217;t learn from it.<\/li>\n<li>You have to kill it to win it.<\/li>\n<li>Fail frequently, fast, and furious<\/li>\n<li>If I played baseball I would be the GM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Questions<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the opposite of a trophy wife?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have a failure resume?<\/li>\n<li>Is Facebook to big to fail?<\/li>\n<li>How many tweets does it take to get a trend?<\/li>\n<li>There are wrinkle free pants, when will we see tangle free headphones?<\/li>\n<li>Which is best Happily Ever After or Happily Ever Now?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean to &#8216;trust the chicken?&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Do you have to sell out to get buy in?<\/li>\n<li>If you are not passionate, who do you expect your team to be passionate?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Quotes<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good ideas are simple. &#8211; @jason<\/li>\n<li>Money is the shortcut. &#8211; @garyvee<\/li>\n<li>Great entrepreneurs don&#8217;t have better ideas, they have better process. &#8211; Eric Ries<\/li>\n<li>Pay attention to pixels. &#8211; Bump Technologies Job Listing<\/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 I can haz [&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":[19,21,3],"tags":[71,30,74,72,73,804,39,50],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}