* Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Building reliability is probably your best aim: does it have a UPS? does it
have a RAID 1/0 config? Dual PSUs? Tape drive backup policy? Those things
are way more important than a faster chip or RAM.
your right of course, however all of those
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Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
And table football's no fun if you're playing with
yourself.
Maybe if you kept your hands on the table football...? gdr
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Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:24:24AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
The vision I have is of a team (or teams) working in *our* premises,
with customers working with us.
(side-rant)
The customers _must_ be kept isolated from the developers. This is
IIRC, Sim City is one of Ken Livingstone's favorites.
There can't be the option to revoke all bird feed sellers permits.
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:28:13AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
One customer. On site. Full time. Absolute honesty.
Nice idea if you have customers who can take the truth, and who know
when to shut up and let people get on with things. I'd like to see
it working, but I haven't yet.
R
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:24:24AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Now, I freely admit that I have partaken of the Extreme Programming
Kool-Aid, and dammit I want to do it.
I want to try it too. I'm not convinced by all of it - pair programming
for example - but so much of the other stuff seems
Paul Makepeace sent the following bits through the ether:
Y'all might find this excellent piece interesting,
http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$287
Pretty darn interesting. Fogcreek sounds like a pretty cool place to
work. I'd suggest that if we were thinking of doing
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, you wrote:
I don't see why you can't have a mix - it would be good to have a core
group of people who always (nearl) work in the office so that if you
usually work from home but need some face 2 face there will be people
there (or in a pub nearby). things like IRC and
Piers Cawley wrote:
Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David Cantrell wrote:
That should read there's too many distractions at home for me (or
you as the case may be).
I am about 150% more productive at home - 25 % because I save the
journey, and the other 25% due to
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Client has no concept about what software development is like and within
a week or two cancels the entire thing 'some of those guys spent a whole
week working and half the time couldnt even get it to run, by the end of
the week all they'd done was
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Pretty darn interesting. Fogcreek sounds like a pretty cool place to
work. I'd suggest that if we were thinking of doing something similar
we'd need to build a product, or concentrate on a product or something
like that. Do a MySQL or an AxKit, and get
"Dean S Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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From: Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I did a little pair programming at emap - I probably wasn't doing it
right
tho'. even so we did get thru the hard bits quicker and could split
up to
do the easy stuff. I think it
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:42:52PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Building reliability is probably your best aim: does it have a UPS? does it
have a RAID 1/0 config? Dual PSUs? Tape drive backup policy? Those things
are way more important than a
Dave Hodgkinson sent the following bits through the ether:
Leon, are you acting as scribe?
Yes. Don't expect a masterpiece though.
Leon
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[1] My first name is actually Christopher, but handily my parents changed
[Oddly enough, same here. I'm Chris Paul ... It's an absolute pain in the
arse. Note to parents: don't do this.]
I know a Andrew Christopher Jackson that's known as Chris. So it's not
just Christopher that's
From: "Paul Makepeace" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where you'll be consulting for a munitions firm? :-)
Nah, I don't know enough about encryption ;-)
But then again, ignorance doesn't seem to be an obstacle to most lobbyists
or salesmen! Reminds me of ye olde joke:
Q. What's the difference between a
From: "Nathan Torkington" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Timing in London is hard, because there aren't very many hotels
capable of supporting such an event. It's quite amazing to us, in
fact, how difficult it has been to find a place to hold it in London.
What sort of numbers are we talking about then?
From: "Robin Houston" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.arsdigita.com/asj/managing-software-engineers/
I particularly liked:
"Your business success will depend on the extent to which programmers
essentially live at your office. For this to be a common choice, your office
had better be nicer than
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:04:24PM +, Robin Houston wrote:
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:01:51PM +, Chris Benson wrote:
Another link is
http://www.arsdigita.com/careers/
They seem to be a very good model for a consultancy business
Personally I wouldn't like to work
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:28:06PM -, Andrew Bowman wrote:
From: "Nathan Torkington" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Timing in London is hard, because there aren't very many hotels
capable of supporting such an event. It's quite amazing to us, in
fact, how difficult it has been to find a place to
Timing in London is hard, because there aren't very many hotels
capable of supporting such an event. It's quite amazing to us, in
fact, how difficult it has been to find a place to hold it in London.
One of the hotels in London I have had dealings with has conference facilities
and over 2000
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