<snip> >One of the tricks is *not* to keep saying "Our current >environment sucks." >because then you sound whiny. Its when you have a legit
I don't complain much anymore, but when asked I am very honest in my opinion on it. >argument to make >that people are more likely to listen. Do you have a laptop? >Put Tomcat >on that, do some work from home, and when people begin to realize that >you're outstripping your coworkers in productivity say very >nonchalantly >that you're doing it all on your personal installation of >Tomcat. That, >in turn, might get other developers to do it as well, which in >turn might >get your boss to put more pressure on the big guys upstairs to >bless it. Great minds think alike. I'm already doing this. :-) Once I learned that the lockdown was coming, I fired up my laptop and configured a development environment on it. I'm now moving the non-standard software off my machine (all open source, so no risk from the BSA :-) and working it on my laptop. Kind of a shame when you can be more productive on a P266 than a P4 2GHz! Oh well. >Duane Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
