{"id":984,"date":"2010-02-07T10:17:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=984"},"modified":"2010-02-07T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T17:18:57","slug":"retweet-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2010\/02\/07\/retweet-january-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweet January 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>If your code works not because of your programming intentions but because of bug side effects and your client doesn&#8217;t care, it is not done.<\/li>\n<li>I need a software development bug repellent.<\/li>\n<li>Design fail if you fix a log message and you break some functionality.<\/li>\n<li>If a carpenter&#8217;s rule of thumb is to &#8220;measure twice, cut once&#8221; then a programmer&#8217;s rule of thumb should be &#8220;design twice, code once, refactor a few times, and optimize only if you have to.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Saying you know programming is like saying you know how to read, a first grader knows how to read!!<\/li>\n<li>Requirements gathering is not creative writing.<\/li>\n<li>I love requirements: The initial instruction should completely initialize the initial value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Team Leadership<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The only two requirements for a manager is that he is breathing and that he can communicate with his team in their language.<\/li>\n<li>What happens to you is not other people&#8217;s fault, it is your opportunity.<\/li>\n<li>There is nothing worse than a perfectionist that doesn&#8217;t know what he wants.<\/li>\n<li>The worst thing you can so when you make a mistake is lie about it.<\/li>\n<li>Every once in a while you have to recalculate, reshuffle, and\/or remix your priorities.<\/li>\n<li>Embrace the edge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Product Placement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Google We Trust.<\/li>\n<li>Google claims their motto is to &#8216;do no evil&#8217;, put I suggest they change it to &#8216;do no customer support.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>If you use Google search to find Google Mail customer support and still can&#8217;t find it, is that a fail in their customer support or search?<\/li>\n<li>There should be Freedom of Information Act for corporations.  I want to know everything that Google knows about me and how that info is used<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t believe the AT&amp;T website is not iPhone\/mobile friendly.<\/li>\n<li>Apple should develop a dual screen iPhone, iPhone GS3 DS.<\/li>\n<li>I imagine a time when Zynga will have in-game ads for Monsanto genetic modified seeds on FarmVille or Foster Farm turkeys for Cafe World.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook saves everything you create\/post\/save\/click\/delete, it can reverse engineer what you where thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Doing four square drive-by check-ins.<\/li>\n<li>Does Craigslist have an iPhone app?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have multiple twitter personality disorder?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Quote<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. &#8211; Seneca<\/li>\n<li>If I could make the same amount of money but wake up until when I can&#8217;t hold in my pee any longer, I will be a success. &#8211; Phil Kaplan<\/li>\n<li>The answer to the question &#8220;where do good ideas come from&#8221; is always the same, the come from bad ideas. &#8211; Seth Godin<\/li>\n<li>Only the mediocre are always at their best. &#8211; Jean Giraudoux<\/li>\n<li>From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you&#8230; &#8211; Brad Feld<\/li>\n<li>Nothing fails like success. &#8211; Arnold Toynbee<\/li>\n<li>I totally question the conventional wisdom of the American dream. &#8211; Anil Dash<\/li>\n<li>If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin. &#8211; Iva Turgenev<\/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 If your code [&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":[53,107,94,103,86,106,52,44,87,83,39,40,108,799,91],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-fS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984"}],"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=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}