April 10th, 2007
Microsoft is Dead
I just finished reading this article by Paul Graham. It’s quite interesting so take a look at it!
April 10th, 2007
April 6th, 2007
Keyboard cleaning
I cleaned my keyboard today … disassembled it completely. Every single key has been brushed and cleaned. It’s like new again! I should do that more regularly as it was quite dirty. How long ago did YOU clean your keyboard? ;-)
March 14th, 2007
Traveling
While traveling by train last friday I noticed this (german) advertisment at the station in front of a bakery. Click here for a bigger picture. Later, in the train, I was sitting next to a guy with a very old and very huge notebook. I didn’t know people are still able to use those slow boxes ;-)
March 8th, 2007
Agile Development
Since a few months I’m working on a project at university. We are creating a browser-based whiteboard-like collaboration plattform called ‘EduCs’. The university told us to use the waterfall approach. We spent the whole last term creating documents and just finished the design-phase about two weeks ago. I already hated it shortly after we started and looked for alternatives. Thanks to Rails I got to know ‘Agile Development’. (We had a lecture about software engineering which never mentioned it).
Since then I’ve been reading books, watching talks and listening to Chaosradio a lot. Agile Development seems to fit my feeling about how to do software. As I’ve to do an internship in about one year to get my bachelor degree, I’ve started to look out for companies using agile methods. I didn’t expect it to be this hard. I’ve been asking some of my friends how the projects are done in their companies. Shockingly most of them told me that their not even doing the waterfall approach or anything similar. Only one told me – while working on a half finished website, that was going to be released the next day – they had a whole bunch of people solely managing and organizing the projects.
Why is this? Are there so few companies caring about how they do their software or do I just know the “wrong” people?
February 15th, 2007
Design updated
Today I modified Mephisto’s default theme. It’s a little bit more individual and synatic|net related now. Hopefully you like it ;-)
Nevertheless I could still need someone with professional webdesign-skills who knows XHTML, CSS like his/her own pocket. Maybe one of my few (future) readers out there matches these criterias? If yes, and you’re interessted in a cooperation please contact me! :-)