Archive for July, 2009

Software and Obama’s Victory

Friday, July 31st, 2009

from Martin Fowler: Software and Obama’s Victory. I like the last org model shown; it would be very interesting to work in a company structured in such a fashion, with middle management acting as guides & facilitators, instead of intermediates, filters and superiors.

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Warning: get off housing gravy train – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

There’s an opinion page on the ABC News page about the increasing rise in house prices (and the subsequent fall in housing affordability). The solution presented: build more housing (not necessarily houses – apartments are okay too), thus increasing the supply. Unfortunately, that won’t help.
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Wage growth does not automatically equate to inflationary pressure…

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

One of my coworkers tossed out this line today: “We can’t just increase the minimum wage, because that would cause inflation”. I said at the time that didn’t have to be the case, and I just thought I’d capture my reasoning in writing.
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Hudson Plugin for Eclipse

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Lusting over the Atlassian Connector’s support for Bamboo made me decide to check out what support there was for Hudson in Eclipse. So I checked out the Hudson Eclipse Plugin. My thoughts: not bad, but not great – a lot of potential is there, though.

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Atlassian Connector for Eclipse – a review

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

In two words: pretty neat.

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