Posts:

• The Case For Better Management
• Do The Basic Research
• The Delete Confirmation Functionality
• Security Theater
• Outdated Catchphrases
• 2009 – The Best and Worst Books I Read
• Counterproductive Hiring Practices
• The Danger of Stories and Anecdotes
• When is It Good Enough?
• Wrong Use of Testing Metrics
• The Bigger Complexity Lies Outside Technology
• Delegation is Teaching
• Cross-Platform is Not That Important
• Framework Failures for Beginners
• Why Your Academic Record is Important
• Growth is Required Even if There are No Network Effects
• Fast Sales-Driven Growth
• StackExchange Experience: The OpenID Conundrum
• Guide to Software Pricing
• Code Readability
• IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is Uninspiring
• Do Bad Programmers Know About Technical Debt?
• Technical Debt Quadrant
• Dealing with Growing Software Complexity
• Show, Don’t Tell
• A Difference Between Indian and American Programmers
• The Legacy Programmer Boss
• Software Short-Term Management & Long-Term Leadership
• The Worst Software Book Ever
• The Duct-Tape Programmer Explained
• All About the Duct-Tape Programmer
• Software Analysis Paralysis
• The Economics of Content
• Avoiding Software Car Wrecks
• Time, Budget, Scope
• Serialize Your Projects
• It is Time to be Optimistic About Software Development
• The Twin Demons of Programmers
• Managing Perceptions
• The Manager’s Manager
• Why Developers Say, “It Works On My System”
• Zero Defect Software
• Guy Kawasaki’s Engineer Lies
• The Stupidity Threshold
• Book Shelves
• Book Review: Young Guns, by Robert Tuchman
• Bad Example for Test-Driven Development
• Anecdotes and Data
• The Ugliest Part of MVC
• A Non-Reason for Using ORM
• Quick Code Reviews
• The Problem with the Software Craftsmanship Concept
• Tom DeMarco on Software Engineering
• Understand Free Software First
• Laptop Hunting
• Stretching Software Development Skills
• Google as Pirates?
• Why Google Chrome OS is Overrated
• Forgotten Products
• The Non-Delegation Trap
• Free is for Users, not Publishers
• Quality and Deadlines
• Hearing Audiobooks
• Managing Followers of the Old Way
• The Dangerous Software Quality-Cost Argument
• Ask the Right Questions At the Right Time
• Incremental Progress
• Software Development Blogs
• How Communism Broke People
• Natural Things To Do
• WordPress Move
• Entrepreneurs Today
• Meaningless Definitions
• The vi Paradigm
• 360-Degree Translation and More
• Bing Search Engine in Action
• Early Birds versus Night Owls
• How to Handle Extraordinarily Productive Employees
• Code Generation
• Hollywood’s Distribution Model
• Telecommuting
• Sundries
• Should Indian Outsourcing Be Banned?
• Incentives Without Disincentives
• Why They Killed Socrates
• A Twitter Novice on Why Twitter Matters
• Best English Software Blogs by Malayalis
• Providing Negative Feedback to Your Boss
• The Risks of Providing Negative Feedback
• Why Ideology is Bad
• What is the Value of a Programmer’s Time?
• Interview with Mike Ramm
• Crisis Management is not Project Management
• What does “Non-Commercial” in Creative Commons Mean?
• BizSpark is Not Good Enough to Depose LAMP
• Interview with Jurgen Appelo on the Complex Manifesto
• Don’t be Too Quick to Judge
• Thoughts on Randy Pausch
• How Many Friends Can You Follow?
• Understand Normalization Before Denormalizing
• Lying about Reading Books
• Market Correction Still in Progress
• Real Education Reform
• Discussions and Arguments
• Organizational Hand-Shaking
• Screen Sucking
• The Disappointment of Internet Explorer 8.0
• Finally, Raymond Chen Gives the Answer
• Public Key Cryptography
• Slumdog Millionaire and the Real India
• Graphics Design for Web Projects
• “Can” Doesn’t Mean “Should”
• Print in Editable Screens is Dangerous
• Recursive Professions
• The “Do It When You Can” Technique
• Don’t Go to Work for Wrestling
• Are Indian Software Developers “Code Donkeys”?
• Managers in Startups versus Managers in Stable Companies
• Worst Authentication Error Page
• Are You a Caroline Fisher?
• Apples != Oranges
• Delete, Move or Hide, But Do Something
• Some Fun WordPress Stats
• Start with Skepticism
• Code Quality versus Development Speed
• How GPL Inhibits Innovation
• Code Quality Doesn’t Matter That Much?
• Let’s Define Micro-Management Properly
• When Ads Destroy Branding
• The Ugly Side of Online Success
• More Why Managers Get Kooky Problems
• Proper Delegating Means Moving Onto Tougher Problems
• 100 Skills You Should Know if You are Still in the 20th Century
• Seth Godin Wrong about Rubber-Necking and Virtual Communities
• Comparing Blogger and Wordpress.com
• Government Websites Around the World
• Public Domain Resources
• Keeping the Writing Flame Alive
• The Private Web
• Google Consolidation
• The Evil Courtiers on StackOverflow
• A Tale of Two Apology Notes
• Strange Password Behavior on Hotmail and WordPress
• Why the Looooong Resumes from India
• Are You Warming the Earth with Google Searches?
• Top Rated Software Developer Blog Sites
• The Troubling Truth about Successful Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• The End of Hacknot
• Measuring Programming Love
• Project Gutenberg
• Knowledge Workers
• Survivorship Bias
• 2008 – The Best and Worst Books I Read
• RFP’s May Increase Risk and Costs
• Hindsight Experts
• References for the Economic Crisis
• The Economic Crisis
• The Expert Level Problem in Computer Games
• Code More to Become a Better Developer
• Artificial Intelligence
• Maintenance
• Stack Overflow Thoughts
• Decision Making
• The One Answer Search Engine
• Barriers to Market Entry
• The Gospel of Scott Adams
• Procedural Programming in OO Languages
• Programmer Test for Interviews
• Barriers to Receiving Information
• 5 Steps to Becoming a Terrible Programmer
• Web List Functionality
• Why Leadership?
• Actionable Web Bookmarks
• Pair Programming and Code Reviews
• Project Scope and Bug Density
• Teams and Disagreements
• Vocabulary
• To Learn C or Not
• Google App Engine
• Outbursts of Creativity
• The Wrong Lessons from Mistakes
• Change and Emotion
• Strengths vs. Weaknesses
• The Distinct Types of Workaholics
• The Meaning of No Time
• The Different Aspects of Intelligence
• The Guessing Game
• The Evolving Profession
• Replacing the HTML drop-down control
• Managers in Startups
• The Sandwich Situation
• Code Size in Software Projects
• 2007 – The Best and Worst Books I Read
• Delegation and Follow-up
• DataModel and ViewModel
• Pitfalls of Performance-Based Compensation
• Riddles and Quiz in Interviews
• The Joy of Setting Up a Java Framework
• Communicating Software Estimates
• Software Estimation and the Business-Technical Conflict
• A Theory of Simplicity
• The Commercial Market and Copyright
• The Higher Google Stock Price
• Complex Requirements
• The Difficulties of Going on Vacation
• When Managers and Employees Disagree
• Don’t Manage as if You are Managing Yourself
• Individual vs. Team Productivity
• Preparing for a Software Career – Part Two
• Writing Software Requirements for Developers
• When Everything is High Priority
• What Day Should You Hold Meetings?
• What Time Should You Have Meetings?
• GoToBilling – A Case Study
• Thinking
• Software Evolution and Software Reusability
• Managing for the First Time
• The Ultimate Present
• Bulgarian Translation
• This Book Changes Everything
• Bookswim – Book Lending Service
• Mistakes in the Hiring Process
• Agile Development and Requirements Management
• Language and Accent Issues
• Posts by Smarter People
• Hiring People
• Unnecessary Field Validations
• Specialized Requirements Analyst
• Overcoming "Requirements Writing" Block
• Getting Rid of the TV
• Books, Links and Crazy Coincidences
• Indian Software Product Innovation
• The Rising Rupee-Dollar Ratio
• Website Tools
• Internal Motivations in Software Estimation
• Hard-coding and Soft-coding
• Political Capital in Organizations
• The Dilemma of the Capable
• Q & A Session on Google Analytics
• When Murphy Strikes
• Productivity Tips for Nerds
• Coping with Difficult People
• Integration between Google applications
• High-Class Problems
• Startup vs. Non-Startup
• The Full Feed Problem Again
• Free vs. Getting Paid
• A Book on Evidence-Based Management
• Preparing for a Software Career
• Making Money from a Hobby
• Cell Phones – The Future of Computing
• The Logic Box
• The Convenient Death
• Software Metrics – Incremental Use
• Software Metrics – The Rule of Control
• Situations Ripe for Mistakes
• Evergreen Creations
• The Martyr Complex
• Writing an Essay
• Mashup Tools
• Inviting Competition
• Evaluating Success Criteria
• Effort versus Reward
• Personal Productivity by Marc Andreessen
• Trainable People
• Writing Better
• Learning From Refactoring
• Yahoo! Mail Problem
• Microsoft Office 2007
• Meetings
• Analogies
• Windows Vista – The Good and Bad Parts
• Flash Forward
• Happenings on the Technology Front
• Short-Term, Long-Term and External Memory
• Some Thoughts on Reading
• Over-reaction
• The Dangers of a Hobby Project
• Learning Using a Hobby Project
• Communication at Work
• The Right Double Standards
• Personal vs Professional Software Development
• Using Web Site Analytics Data
• Quick Linking
• Barack Obama at Verizon Wireless Arena
• The Future of Windows Vista
• IE7 Problem on Vista
• Ad Support for Products
• Having Paying Customers
• Lazy Thinking
• Windows Vista Problems
• Google Analytics Rebooted
• The Low-Tech Solution
• Risks and the Aftermath
• A Few Irritants
• ReviewBasics
• Don’t Slow Down the User
• Going Down Alone
• The Competition
• Silverlight and Microsoft
• Wealth as a Life Scorecard
• Employees as Capital
• It is a Different Time
• Looking Forward
• Web Site Creation
• Using Free Resources
• The Browser Wars
• Creative Commons
• Avoiding Email Embarrassments
• Links to ASP.NET, Usability, and Open Source
• Internal Motivation
• Tragic Massacre at Virginia Tech
• If Everyone were the Same
• Stop the Email Thread
• Some Quick Linking
• Crossing the Finish Line
• Getting Things Done
• Factors for Success
• A Byte of Fun
• Costs and Choices
• Motivations and Reasons
• Managing Costs the Right Way
• Human Beings in the Workplace
• The 3 Stages of Knowledge
• If you want help, ask for it
• The Weight of Old Baggage
• Collaboration Across Geographic Locations
• The Procrastination Technique
• Incorrect Dataset – Distorted Analysis
• 5 Great Software Development Blogs
• Microsoft’s Competitive Openings
• The Charitable Reason
• Leadership and Sinking Markets
• Leadership and Stable Markets
• Leadership and Rising Market Situation
• Leadership in Different Market Situations
• Handling Personnel Conflicts
• Are Books Outdated?
• Organizing the Feedback
• Dropping the Crutches
• Training with Limited Time
• Simple Time Audit
• Excellence – When and When Not
• Why Management is Tough
• Pitfalls of New Managers
• 5 Reasons to Use Two Browsers
• Featuritis
• A Collection of Bad Blog Behavior
• Effective Documentation
• Five Questions and Answers On Delegation
• Health Suggestions for Software Developers
• Potpourri of Thoughts
• RSS Feed Reader in Internet Explorer 7.0
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Delete Key
• Life After the Change
• More Yahoo! Pipes Thoughts
• Corporate Blogging Research
• Leadership Qualities
• First Impression of Yahoo! Pipes
• Search Engine Land Feeds
• Your Biggest Critic
• Your Public Blog is really Public
• Worry about Free Web Applications
• Half-Baked Software Features
• Exciting Technology Video
• HP Inkjet Printing Limitation
• A Few Problems with Google Services
• Link Rich get Richer
• How to Make Live Search Better
• Blog Changes
• What the Gmail Calendar!
• Have a Good Life
• Learn by Teaching
• January 2007 in Review
• Internet Video and Audiences
• A Malayalam Blog and Kerala Information Technology
• Quick Review of Google Products
• Yahoo! Bookmarks Beta
• More on Balance
• Review of Scoble’s Book
• Building the Right Team
• The Learning Ladder
• Helping Developing Nations
• High Volume of Blog Reading
• Experience with Google Analytics
• Balance
• Netflix, Snow, Google and AIDS
• Trusting Theories
• Hair Down
• Experiences with Reading Blogs
• Dropping Out
• Lessons from Movie Watching
• Challenges faced by Small-Scale Entrepreneurs
• E-recruiting – Analysis (Part 2)
• E-recruiting – Analysis (Part 1)
• Companies and Liberal Social Policies
• AIDS and Corporate Responsibility
• It’s Definitely Personal
• Blow Away the Confusion and Fears
• Change Management is more than Chess or Checkers
• On Writing Blogs Frequently
• Business Management Lessons from "24" TV Series
• Dale Carnegie’s Death
• 12 Books for 12 Months
• New Search Engines
• Criticism and Improvement
• Disinclination to Learn
• The Enemy of Action
• JotSpot Lockdown
• Kill Google Base
• Rear View Mirrors
• Poor Man’s CAPTCHA
• Google Indexing – Coincidence or Big Brother?
• Problem with Google Custom Search
• Private Blogs
• The Economics of a Free Lunch
• Google Maps Calling Feature
• The "No Silver Bullet" Principle
• The problem with Ken Blanchard’s books
• Power Imbalance in Decision Making
• Windows Live Writer
• Sourcegear Vault Admin Tool
• Keep Users Coming Back
• Cliche Finder
• Management Cliches
• Essential Skills
• Writeboard
• The Real "Work-Life" Balance
• The Cell Phone Computer
• Going Home to Work
• Software is the new Bureaucracy
• Gmail Ads
• Writely (or Google Docs & Spreadsheets)
• Change Requests
• The Time to Change Processes
• Holistic Approach
• Innovation – Evolutionary and Revolutionary
• Rapid Change
• The Partnerships
• Knowledge & Experience
• The "Hygiene Factor"
• Selective Reading
• Being Good and Being Successful
• Change Management – People Don’t Just Hate Change
• Change Management – Using the Masses
• Office Tigers on Word
• Knowledge Resources
• Some email issues
• More search options
• Serving Multiple Masters
• A few meeting ideas
• The Good Programmers
• Gmail Features
• Understanding the Manager
• Software Bugs
• Office Tigers on Outlook
• The Sample Application
• Open-ended Questions
• Jack of All Trades and Master of One
• Digitization of Personal Information

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