purpleAsphalt http://www.purpleasphalt.com Tales of my experiences in the programming world. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:39:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Project Mismanagement Episode 1: Drag and What http://www.purpleasphalt.com/2008/03/24/project-mismanagement-episode-1-drag-and-what/ http://www.purpleasphalt.com/2008/03/24/project-mismanagement-episode-1-drag-and-what/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:07:50 +0000 David Herman http://www.purpleasphalt.com/2008/03/24/project-mismanagement-episode-1-drag-and-what/ Project Mismanagement Episode 1: Drag and What
There’s a fine balance between getting out of the way but still being helpful and staying in the way and being no help at all. Generally when we find ourselves with help that is no longer helpful, we just do it ourselves, right or wrong. “Well, why didn’t you just ask” a statement were all familiar with. The solution of course is to tell them, “If you had done your job correctly I wouldn’t have to.” The problem is that we don’t all have the luxury to speak our minds. In our corporate world we can hide or mediocrity by a simple passing of the buck, the blame almost always going to the developer. If a project manager does not ask you, the developer, questions of the things of which they are not sure then they fail! If they give you a task, and you spend more time gathering business rules than you do programming, then they fail! Sadly this has become the norm. Well that’s just not good enough. (more…)


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If you grew up around the 80’s then you’ll have fond memories of Poision Ivy (more…)


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On our first day of work we dress as nice as possible, it goes down hill from there. (more…)


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Every developer wants a great big whiteboard next to their desk. They all say it’s for helping with the development process, but we all know what the real reason is…
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In the computer programming world the programmers are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The people who have a fucking clue and the people who don’t. These are their stories. Inspired by actual code! (more…)


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