On or about Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:08:29PM +, Piers Cawley typed:
And if the Big Cheese does hand down decisions that override the
Minion then the contract between developer and client should stipulate
that the client pays for the wasted time.
Contracts _should_ say that the client pays
Roger claimed that:
This XP approach seems to require a lot more firmness
in customer relations than I've ever seen - and if that firmness were
present, we wouldn't need XP anyway...
One of the main problems with full disclosure with the client is that it
can only ever work when you've only
I see that in Damian's latest diary entry (you _are_ reading Damian's
diary I assume) he talks about the ridiculous number[1] of papers, talks
and tutorials that he's proposing to give at TPC5.
The piece also seems to act as an advert to encourage other people to
submit proposals to the
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:47:35AM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
Contracts _should_ say that the client pays for changes to what he
originally said he wanted. Sometimes they do. It's quite rare, in my
experience, for this payment actually to be
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
Dave Mee sent the following bits through the ether:
One of the best solutions I've come accross to this problem is to take an
iterative approach to development.
Inded. Look at XP. The whole idea is that at the end of every day /
week you have
At Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:42:46 +, Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Mee sent the following bits through the ether:
One of the best solutions I've come accross to this problem is to
take an
iterative approach to development.
Inded. Look at XP. The whole idea is that at the
Andy Wardley wrote:
Having said that, I do very little "real" work at work, instead
spending my time reading/writing email, chatting to people, playing
table tennis, having meetings, and doing other brain dead tasks.
I sometimes feel guilty because 90% of my work gets done in 10% of my
time.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 10:26:18AM +, James O'Sullivan wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:47:35AM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
Contracts _should_ say that the client pays for changes to what he
originally said he wanted. Sometimes they
Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether:
Two points:
Picky, picky. Fine. I'd say that of the bits I've tested, I've found
that continuous testing is a very important part. Writing the tests
before the code is cool too. But you know this already ;-)
Leon
--
Leon
So who's bankrolling the van and who wants to be BA?
Neil.
(whose tounge is ever so slightly on his cheek!)
--
Sorry, but I can't resist pointing out that this amusing misspelling. I
guess I'd pronounce this a bit like lounge. Tongue is a pretty stupid way to
spell it anyway, tung would be
Neil Ford wrote:
The "A-Team" - scenario is one in which a team goes in to rescue a failing
project, or go in and retune/redesign an existing project that works but has
become a victim of its own success. Think of this work as bespoke
enhancements.
That just has me conjering up images
is it still 12:30 at the new world today?
--
Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Inded. Look at XP. The whole idea is that at the end of every day /
week you have changed something and can show it to the client
again. This way the client really understands what he really wants.
wow ... "a
is it still 12:30 at the new world today?
That does indeed seem to be the plan.
Neil.
--
Neil C. Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.binky.ourshack.org
Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I sometimes feel guilty because 90% of my work gets done in 10% of my
time.
There is in fact Pareto's Law which says that 80% of results come from
20% of work (or 10-90 or whatever the numbers don't really matter).
No need to feel guilty since this is
Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2. I first heard about building at the end of the day in Brooke's
Mythical Man Month.
Continuous integration and smoke testing. Oh yes.
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The overiding thing should be 'make this the very best company to work
for AND the very best company to have work done by' A1 bleeding edge code
written by the planets happiest programmers ... sounds like a good recipe
to me.
Not sure about the
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and this template toolit thing rocks dunnit .. (now I have the hang of it
.. sorta)
It is the rockingest thing I've rocked to since the last one.
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway
Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Men in black theme - we must all have black suits - dark glasses
avliable from Macy D's soon, and we can get a clapped out van from BT
for next to nothing
Don't forget the welding gear.
Actually, I'm more for the Ghostbusters theme: boiler suits,
Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I sometimes feel guilty because 90% of my work gets done in 10% of my
time.
There is in fact Pareto's Law which says that 80% of results come from
20% of work (or 10-90 or whatever the numbers don't really matter).
Often, when I do something
There is in fact Pareto's Law which says that 80% of
results come from
20% of work (or 10-90 or whatever the numbers don't really matter).
Often, when I do something that I consider really easy and
spend little
effort on it, I get lots of really good feedback.
Glad I'm not the only
Lunch was fabulous if only to hear Cantrell say: "this is nice, what
the hell is it?" (or something).
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com
Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun
evidence:
http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/nr.pm/jan01/
:-)
dj
At 22 Jan 2001 12:18:05 +, Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lunch was fabulous if only to hear Cantrell say: "this is nice, what
the hell is it?" (or something).
Any chance of someone posting a summary of the discussion?
Dave...
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any chance of someone posting a summary of the discussion?
"Three bowls of noodle soup, some of those crab things on a stick, one
each of the ho fun..."
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:18:09AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Any chance of someone posting a summary of the discussion?
pdcawley: talk talk take charge talk bully us into having a clue
dcantrell: is there any tea left?
food: wriggle, but in a nice-tasting way
NB: :-)
--
David Cantrell
Hi folks
Am I going mad or is there no way I can start my fav client program
PuTTY and specify a saved 'session' directly with a switch?
(i.e. I can specify a hostname, but I _want_ to specify a session
name - to have my colours / fonts etc)
cheers
dj
I make a shortcut and then put something like this in the Target field in
Properties.
"C:\Program Files\Putty\putty.exe" @SessionName
HTH,
Simon.
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From DJ Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date 22
January 2001
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:40:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"C:\Program Files\Putty\putty.exe" @SessionName
wow - excellent. Thanks. I don't think I would have come upon '@' in
my guessing ;-)
cheers
dj
On Jan 22, 3:33pm, Andy Wardley wrote:
Please consider yourself emailed.
Damn, damn, damn!
OK, it was my stupid mistake that I didn't check the headers before I
clicked send, but I can't help thinking that the default Reply-to
header should be to the sender, not the entire group.
And I also
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:52:08PM +, DJ Adams wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:47:03PM +, Andy Wardley wrote:
So without wishing to start another holy war, is it possible to change
too late ;)
the mailing list configuration to have a more sensible default Reply-to?
No no! Please
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:32:58PM +, DJ Adams wrote:
Hi folks
Am I going mad or is there no way I can start my fav client program
PuTTY and specify a saved 'session' directly with a switch?
(i.e. I can specify a hostname, but I _want_ to specify a session
name - to have my colours /
On Jan 21, 1:20pm, Greg McCarroll wrote:
potential london clients will be put off dealing with a company
not in london
Surely you jest, sir!
What about the M3/M4 corridor, otherwise known as "Silicon Alley"?
What about places like Stockley Park (next to Heathrow), or the
Surrey Research Park
Andy Wardley wrote:
So without wishing to start another holy war, is it possible to change
the mailing list configuration to have a more sensible default Reply-to?
rant
I have arguments with Leon about this. He usually quotes 'Reply To
munging considered harmful'
* at 22/01 16:22 + Simon Wistow said:
Andy Wardley wrote:
So without wishing to start another holy war, is it possible to change
the mailing list configuration to have a more sensible default Reply-to?
rant
I have arguments with Leon about this. He usually quotes 'Reply To
munging
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Andy Wardley wrote:
So without wishing to start another holy war, is it possible to change
the mailing list configuration to have a more sensible default Reply-to?
rant
I have arguments with Leon about this. He usually quotes 'Reply To
munging
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
reply-to having the address of the sender is the right thing,
it means when you reply to a message you reply to author of
that message, when you reply-all you reply to all
No. When you reply-all it replies to the
And does anyone know how to get putty to save settings like they key
for backspace, etc, rather than my having to set them every time I start
it?
Do you mean setting the backspace to Control-H in the keyboard tab isn't
working, or are there other esoteric things you want to set?
/Robert
* at 22/01 16:33 + Greg McCarroll said:
* Struan Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
actually mutt has cool mailing list functions in that you can define a
mailing list in the config and then l (or L, i forget) replies to the
list rather than the person.
not that i want this to
On Jan 22, 4:26pm, Greg McCarroll wrote:
reply-to having the address of the sender is the right thing,
[...]
its just the right thing
Nail meets hammer. thwack/
If I explicitly set the Reply-To: in a message posted to the list then
the software is munging it to set it to reply to the list.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:26:32PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
reply-to having the address of the sender is the right thing,
it means when you reply to a message you reply to author of
that message, when you reply-all you reply to all
trying...to...resist...AARGH!
No no no!
You're on a
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:33:33PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
war implies a large struggle, this would be more like a 5 second
knockout - everyone knows mutt is the one true mail client
Now _that_ is something I can agree with g
dj
happy just to have realised he'll be able to make next
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:33:34PM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
reply-to having the address of the sender is the right thing,
it means when you reply to a message you reply to author of
that message, when you reply-all you reply to all
No. When you reply-all it replies
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:33:11PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
And does anyone know how to get putty to save settings like they key
for backspace, etc, rather than my having to set them every time I start
it?
Do you mean setting the backspace to Control-H in the keyboard tab isn't
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:10:57PM +, alex wrote:
there is only one right way, and that's to give people the choice.
that's what i do, and in my experience the majority prefer to have their
reply-to's munged on discussive lists such as this one.
I wonder whether that's really true, or
i'm ignoring all your points
reply-to having the address of the sender is the right thing,
it means when you reply to a message you reply to author of
that message, when you reply-all you reply to all
its just the right thing
so there
Define sender then? the mailing list
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:33:11PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
And does anyone know how to get putty to save settings like they key
for backspace, etc, rather than my having to set them every time I
start
it?
Do you mean setting the backspace to Control-H in the keyboard tab isn't
alex wrote:
I'd prefer to do it the other way round if you don't mind, and say you
have just one month to send a cheque for 50 pounds made out
to C A McLean [1] to state51, 8 rhoda street, bethnal green, e2 7ef ,
or brought along to the next social or technical meeting.
Hm, random question
"James O'Sullivan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:47:35AM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
Contracts _should_ say that the client pays for changes to what he
originally said he wanted. Sometimes they do. It's quite rare,
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 10:26:18AM +, James O'Sullivan wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:47:35AM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
Contracts _should_ say that the client pays for changes to what he
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Inded. Look at XP. The whole idea is that at the end of every day /
week you have changed something and can show it to the client
again. This way the client really understands what he really wants.
wow ... "a
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:18:09AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Any chance of someone posting a summary of the discussion?
pdcawley: talk talk take charge talk bully us into having a clue
Hmm... but I think we achieved rather more than that. And you
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any chance of someone posting a summary of the discussion?
"Three bowls of noodle soup, some of those crab things on a stick, one
each of the ho fun..."
Cheung fun. The ho fun were the white noodles in my
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cheung fun. The ho fun were the white noodles in my soup.
/pedant
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Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com
Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase
I think everything is stored on a per-session basis.
So if you want something changed for all sessions you have to change and
re-save each one.
I think (having only ever used Putty against two machines running the same
OS) !
Simon.
The backspace-ctrl-h. I
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