A golf cart is one of two vehicles you should be allowed to drive drunk. The thing goes three feet a minute. If you hit somebody with one, they pretty much deserved it for having the reflexes of a tuna sandwich.
It was a quote from somewhere. No idea its origin… Apparently via Waking Ideas
Following Matt’s announcement that the text-links had been removed from the free Vanilla forums package, I thought it was a good time to donate as well. There’s no way I can match Matt’s $1000, but I hope my meager $100 donation helps out.
It really surprised me to see Matt donating to Vanilla, particularly since Automattic is the producer of another open-source forums product: bbPress. Seeing this kind of support for a competing project really does make me love open source all the more.
Keep up the great work!
How To Win Friends and Make Developers Happy
If you’re managing developers (dare I say IT personnel in general), and you’re doing any of these wrong, it’s time for a serious change.
Now, how do I subtly hint to my boss that he’s doing most of these wrong? Oh yeah… quit.
(via Dzone here)
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
– Peter Drucker
Boy, isn’t it the truth? My boss is “managing” me right into a hole of utter un-productivity right now.
He apparently doesn’t understand that only 10% of the project is actually the layout of the interface (ie: stuff he can “see”). The other 90% is where you’re working in the background making sure that pretty interface actually does something.
Two to three times a day, he’ll come by, call me, or email me asking if there’s anything new for him to see1.
No, there’s nothing new for you to see, I’ll tell you when I’m done with something so you can see it. The more time we spend talking about how there’s nothing for you to see, the less time I get to spend actually working on something for you to see.
Add to it that it reinforces a bitter feeling that I’m not getting anything done nearly fast enough even though I’m working my ass off, and you’ve got one thoroughly unhappy developer.
Time to call those two job recruiters back, me thinks…
Ironic Quote of the Day
I’ve got the Quotes of the Day widget on my iGoogle homepage, and I found this one ironic this morning:
Yeah, I’d say it’s changed…
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