Introduction A long time ago in a place not so far away from Farmville, I learned Motorola 6800 machine code. It wasn't easy but with patient instruction from my neighbor, I was soon making things happen on the computer screen and in memory. I was hooked! Fast Forward 3.3 Decades... I'm still hooked! That thrill was and remains my ...

More Better  Last week I read and blogged about Better by Dr. Atul Gawande. In Part III of the book, Dr. Gawande focuses on Ingenuity with three chapters entitled The Score, The Bell Curve, and For Performance. There are lots of good takeaways for software development in these chapters. Full Disclosure  One stood out ...

A month or so back I was perusing MSDN Blogs and followed a link to the Dreaming In Code website.   I bought it and finished reading the book on my way home from the MVP Summit last week. I recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn more about large software projects. The book offers a look behind the scenes at the design and ...

More info from InformationWeek: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206104502&subSection=News.  :{> Andy

Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing today along with Windows Vista SP1. Good stuff. :{> Andy

Steve Rowe has an excellent post on why we should revisit process and procedure from time to time. :{> Andy

My sister-in-law recently passed the PMP certification (congratulations Heather!). I'm waiting for a call from her asking if we need to add resources. The resources comment above is a joke, but it isn't really that funny. It's indicative of my decades of experience with bad IT project managers. I believe and hope I have worked with some of ...

A friend (who shall remain nameless) recently told me his company interviewed a competent database developer and DBA. All seemed in agreement an offer would be forthcoming until the very end of the recruiting process. At that time, someone made the comment ''we don't need a DBA.'' It would be notable if this sentiment wasn't so widespread - ...