On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, you wrote:
That should read there's too many distractions at home for me (or
you as the case may be).
im with greg on this one :)
although I can see that some project would need 5 day a week attendance
at some stages I am not convinced that that is the only way to
From: "Steve Mynott" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
THC isn't water soluble at all which is why you have to dissolve the
stuff in hot fat before cooking it.
It is soluble, especially in smoke form. Perhaps not *miscible* but certainly
it'll end up in suspension. Not much admittedly, but it is and crucially
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, I wrote:
arse ... // ok .. so ive been sending mail dated for a different
week .slap I hate it when it does that. moral of the story is
don;t turn your machine off when you go on holiday for a month and leave
it in freezing temperature as it will get amnesia .. and remeber
From: "alex" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[1] My first name is actually Christopher, but handily my parents changed
their minds after registering my birth and decided to call me by my middle
name.
[Oddly enough, same here. I'm Chris Paul ... It's an absolute pain in the
arse. Note to parents: don't do
From: "Michael Stevens" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And, of course, there's the obvious downside of following the unstable
branch of anything...
Except with Debian in my four years of using unstable I haven't had a single
(serious) problem. The times when they've occasionally messed up dependencies
I've
* 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
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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
--
rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/
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:
-Original Message-
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
--
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/
... All new improved
[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
* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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.
Really? Why does this not surprise about
* Redvers Davies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
(update on the OScon in Europe thing--London in August seems to be
a bad idea, so we're looking elsewhere and elsewhen ...)
In case anybody is interested the Devon Cornwall LUG will be helping
organise a S/West UK OSS Conference for local
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:22:07PM -0500, David H. Adler wrote:
FWIW, I know my mother has booked some largish meetings outside of
London. Of course, I don't remember offhand how large, or, for that
matter, what kind of numbers you're looking at.
Good point. Sometimes it's hard to remember
* Greg Cope ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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
Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Beach.
For some values of beach not including sand.
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com
Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for,
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:22:07PM -0500, David H. Adler wrote:
FWIW, I know my mother has booked some largish meetings outside of
London. Of course, I don't remember offhand how large, or, for that
matter, what kind of numbers you're looking
I know some people here had some experience with wwwthreads, but are
there any alternatives?
No, I'm not going to code a forum package by hand.
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
I know some people here had some experience with wwwthreads, but are
there any alternatives?
No, I'm not going to code a forum package by hand.
With a little work wmforum is quite nice (easy enough to understand and
therefore make more modular and
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, I'm not going to code a forum package by hand.
go on dave, it cant be that hard
I'm sure there's a TT macro that does it all.
--
Dave Hodgkinson,
If you're prepared to consider locations a little out of
central London
there are lots of large hotels around Heathrow that have
sizeable conference
type facilities (also handy for the airport!).
FWIW, I know my mother has booked some largish meetings outside of
London. Of course, I
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, I'm not going to code a forum package by hand.
go on dave, it cant be that hard
Having done it a few times, it *isn't* that hard...
Michael
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Andrew Bowman wrote:
There are also a number of large and large-ish venues in London offering a
variety of halls and facilities, e.g. Earls Court, Olympia, Wembley
Conference Centre[1], The Business Design Centre in Islington, The Royal
Horticultural Halls, Queen
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
If you're prepared to consider locations a little out of
central London
there are lots of large hotels around Heathrow that have
sizeable conference
type facilities (also handy for the airport!).
FWIW, I know my mother has booked
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, David H. Adler wrote:
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
* Greg Cope ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, I'm not going to code a forum package by hand.
go on dave, it cant be that hard
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, I'm not going to code a forum
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, I'm not going to code a forum package by
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:50:39PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Neil Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
potential london clients will be put off dealing with a company not in london
Seeing as this was about TPC, interesting subject change :-)
apologise for that i've rejoined (void) and once
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
*
Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was in the process of converting it to TT when i lost a load of my work
at oven (forgot to follwo symlinks when I tar gzipped home).
Don't you hate it when that happens?
I've managed to hack in the requisite headers and footers (a
containing,
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was in the process of converting it to TT when i lost a load of my work
at oven (forgot to follwo symlinks when I tar gzipped home).
Don't you hate it when that happens?
I've managed to hack in the
Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was in the process of converting it to TT when i lost a load of my work
at oven (forgot to follwo symlinks when I tar gzipped home).
Don't you hate it when
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at
Jonathan Stowe sent the following bits through the ether:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, I'm not going to code a forum package by hand.
go on dave, it cant be that hard
Having done
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
If you're prepared to consider locations a little out of
central London
there are lots of large hotels around Heathrow that have
sizeable conference
type facilities (also handy for the airport!).
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Beach.
For some values of beach not including sand.
Don't start that argument.
I spend many an hour - recently opcodes clicked whilst on the beach -
and watching three nutters go for a swim !
Greg
--
Dave
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
If you're prepared to consider locations a little out of
central London
there are lots of large hotels around Heathrow that have
sizeable conference
type facilities (also handy for the airport!).
FWIW, I know my mother has booked some largish meetings
Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Greg Cope ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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
Hi.
I have an (as yet unreleased) module called Mail::ListDetector,
which takes a Mail::Internet object, and attempts to tell you if the
message involved was posted to a mailing list, and if so, attempts to
get some details about that list.
I need testers - in particular, see if it builds and
* Greg Cope ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
potential london clients will be put off dealing with a company not in london
I think Location in this day an age is a little irrelivant. The choice
will be made on quality of service - not where the office is based.
... and all the clients
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Mandrake 7.2.
All I'll say about mandrake is that we have a mandrake box at work and
when you run printtool the cdrom ejects.
I've been running Mandrake for a while (2 years?) now .. and it seems
fine, its Dedrat really with the KDE desktop and a things
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Aside from all the inline HTML.
ARGH! When will people learn!
speaking of which ;)
so .. in an idle moment I'm supposed to be re jazzin' a mates website ..
uh huh, ... no inline HTML for me I says .. so instead of my normal method
[1] I think so .. everyone
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:36:25AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Dave's new SUPER CHARGED TURBO NUTTER 2001 pc reminded me of the good
old days of distributed.net. Is anyone still participating in this?
I've just threw some keys at PMU but it
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether:
how do you get the process() method to return the output to you instead of
printing the damn thing.???
Obviously didn't read the bit about the process method eh?
# text reference
$tt-process(\$text)
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
how do you get the process() method to return the output to you instead of
printing the damn thing.???
Obviously didn't read the bit about the process method eh?
You'd be wanting the string ref as above, matie.
ooh ta .. now where was that hiding
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Chris Benson wrote:
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
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:37:02PM +, Kieran Barry wrote:
Yup. There isn't enough talent around, so people get promoted beyond
their competence. If you train your people they'll only leave.
The only way out of that cycle is to train in-house,
and treat people so well that they stay.
Which
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:37:02PM +, Kieran Barry wrote:
Yup. There isn't enough talent around, so people get promoted beyond
their competence. If you train your people they'll only leave.
The only way out of that cycle is to train in-house,
and treat people so well that they stay.
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:37:02PM +, Kieran Barry wrote:
TCL is used because its multithreaded. Perl 6 is going to be
multithreaded. It should be able to wipe TCL out.
I've never actually understood the appeal of threads. Why do
people like them?
Michael
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, I wrote:
so while I'm on .. what is wisdom on this then .. my method was going to
err hold your answers .. I'm just reading the docs on (the recently
discovered) templatetoolkit.org
--
Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:37:02PM +, Kieran Barry wrote:
TCL is used because its multithreaded. Perl 6 is going to be
multithreaded. It should be able to wipe TCL out.
I've never actually understood the appeal of threads. Why do
people
y* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:05:43PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
Ok, it's trolling a bit, but their main use seems to be where
you don't want to bother to do proper nonblocking IO...
quick web search
They're apparently faster. And make it
What sort of work do you want to do? What sort of business do you seek?
Body shop, A-Team or bespoke software house?
This message generated a few threads: Working from home v office; pair
programming vs traditional project "individual portions"; and handling
client contact or involvement.
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:58:54PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
y* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:05:43PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
Ok, it's trolling a bit, but their main use seems to be where
you don't want to bother to do proper nonblocking
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
we really want standardisation of technology interfaces in the industry,
and threads go a little towards that - oh and a law that alows be to
go around and shooting people who work in IT and i deep unworthy[1].
I do agree with this part.
the
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:24:03PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
we really want standardisation of technology interfaces in the industry,
and threads go a little towards that - oh and a law that alows be to
go around and shooting people who
Back to list
* Mark Townsend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
snip
All of what Mark said is bang on.
So, at the meeting, I suggest a few questions for the agenda:
What sort of business do you expect to win?
What funding have you (living of savings until you get money in)?
How do you want
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:37:02PM +, Kieran Barry wrote:
TCL is used because its multithreaded. Perl 6 is going to be
multithreaded. It should be able to wipe TCL out.
I've never actually understood the appeal of threads. Why do
people
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
y* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:05:43PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
Ok, it's trolling a bit, but their main use seems to be where
you don't want to bother to do proper nonblocking IO...
quick web
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, you wrote:
One customer. On site. Full time. Absolute honesty. Get them on your
side. The are the people who are *paying* for this, they deserve
nothing but your honesty. Tell 'em about any problems and tell 'em
early. Tell
"Dean S Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-Original Message-
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 Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Keeping employees 101: Show respect, recognise them, care for
them and provide opportunity for growth. It's all about the
love; that's all anyone really wants.
and money ... lots and lots of money ...
--
Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
I rush to point out that those stereotypes were *not* what I was on
about in my "I'm really unsure about telecommuting" thing. I'm one of
the gregarious types.
acknowledged ...
those 'stereotypes' where pretty extreme and I am sure there are other
issues on
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
The client doesn;t send Big Chief to sit with the designers, instead
'designers' is kind of the wrong term with XP.
agreed
they send Useless Minion. UM is positive and helpful and gives quick
decisions ona whole variety of topics. And a week later
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:32:19PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
[Could you configure your editor/mailer to attribute correctly?]
Keeping employees 101: Show respect, recognise them, care for
them and provide opportunity for growth. It's all about the
love;
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 07:50:17PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
if you could email me the password to PMU i'd be grateful, also what
is the focus of PMU - OGR or RC5?
Unfortunately, since I didn't start it, I dunno. I'll see if I can
track down who's responsible.
dha
--
David H. Adler -
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
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Leon
So who's bankrolling the van and who wants to be BA?
Neil.
(whose tounge is ever so slightly on his cheek!)
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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?
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Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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