July 8, 2006

to skjermar...


Angry 365 Days a Year
Underpowered machines have two disadvantages. First, they are slower in performing the tasks required of them (or in some cases I have experienced, completely incapable of performing the tasks) which has a direct impact on productivity. Each task takes longer so less tasks get done each day. QED.
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So here’s a tip for a quick easy win: give your CODE-IT workers two monitors. You might think I’m being flippant but there are a number of quite respectable studies that show a sharp improvement in productivity with multi-monitor setups. Monitors are getting cheaper every day

July 7, 2006

Iceberg Sneak-Ins

jf toppen av isfjell...

Iceberg Sneak-Ins
...the most important rule about sneak-ins:
Everything looks easier than it really is.
New features are like icebergs. Most of the effort is invisible, hiding below the water, waiting to sink your project.
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every project manager can choose to spend his life in one of two ways:
  • Getting blamed because he forgot to tell everyone else how the features should work.
  • Keeping an up-to-date spec and blaming everyone else for not reading it.
:)

July 6, 2006

eclipse wiki

hadde vore kjekt å ha...

Eclipse Wiki Editor Plugin
in the context of Eclipse, it is a powerful project documentation tool linking documentation to eclipse resources, web sites, bug tracking tools and other Wikis.
Features

* Link to local Wiki documents
* Link to resources in the Eclipse workspace
* Link to Wiki documentation in plugins
* Link to Java source code in the current project path simply by typing the fully qualified name of a class (classes in the default package are not supported).
* Link to urls — links starting with http, ftp, mailto and file