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I was asked “How do I fix more bugs?” The answer is to own buggier areas! Devs who own buggy areas (best when not through some fault of their own) will resolve more bugs because more bugs will be incoming. Another is to file bugs and fix them. Not dumb
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Practically every book I see advertised on The Daily Show I've gotten at my local library. But this sometimes leaves me with tons of books piled up to read. So I started getting the books on CD when I can and using the CD changer in my car to queue up
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I’ve been using Hyper-V for a couple weeks and have been pleasantly surprised at how much benefit it’s brought me. What I love best is how I can start up a VM on my server box, add a network card and then log into it using remote desktop on another box.
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While waiting for my latest change to compile, I discovered the “preview” option for TV episodes on Xbox Live is a great way to find out more about a series. I don’t really keep track of when new stuff is on, in general I’ll rent a TV series on DVD instead
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It’s important that as a new developer you do not succumb to a mind numbing repetitive task. One, you’ll look like an idiot when someone else does the same thing with a script or a tool but in 1/100 th the time. Two, you could have tons of time to slack
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I do a lot of recruiting and tech fest trips. I look at these times off of work as mini vacations. I get to travel to new places or back to old places and see friends from school. I get to use the company credit card to buy food, hotel and rental car
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There’s a sub shop I routinely visit that irks me. The food is good, but the layout is terrible. You go to the right side of the counter under the “Order Here” sign and look up to see what’s available. But alas! The menu is posted on the wall near the
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Being a developer in Office, I’ve seen a lot of different priorities for fixing bugs. First off, bugs have a priority assigned from 1 to 4, 1 being the highest “we can’t ship without this fixed” bug. Then there’s a “Now” bug which is for things like build
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I just discovered that my TV has a split screen mode. I can watch TV and do something on the Xbox at the same time! This is great because I wanted to queue up a bunch of downloads, but I also wanted to watch recorded MythBusters. Thus I saved myself 5
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Today's Sunday post is brought to you buy: Socks! Yes, those crafty little devils that live in your top dresser drawer that come with an unwieldy requirement: they must be worn in pairs. Now, no rule says that you must wear a matching pair, but not doing
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All work and no play means bugs. Ever sit in a computer science lab and suddenly hear a loud WHACK!! as someone does something destructive to their keyboard? This is the "The computer is pissing me off" signal. Other signals include hitting the keyboard
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Ah, a much cooler skin for a very cool blog. Speaking of being cool, have you added CoolBeans to your RSS reader so you don't miss out on any cool happenings? I have found RSS feeds to be key to my productivity. Well, more like key to preventing a detrimental
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I'm writing this post as I'm waiting for friends to come over for a Super Bowl party. That's because during the party I won't be checking email, I won't be trying to fix bugs, I won't be stressing out over something at work. When you start work, there's
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Who has ever met that guy that insisted on writing every piece of code to be as fast as possible? We'll call him the "speed freak". Thankfully, speed freak is less an influence in languages such as Java or C# because there is no low level access to the
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One more small post on productivity and next week will be back to code. Having multiple monitors reduces the amount of time you spend application switching. Whether that leads to increased productivity is up to you, but for me it greatly increases the
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