Tag Archive
admin agile ant bea classpath hell coding standards common sense design doh eclipse economics ejb Hibernate humour ide IE intellij ioc Java javaworld junit language design learning management maven meh nytimes opinion patterns personal Politics refactoring Ruby struts suncorp tdd testing testng unit testing usa web app web design weblogic weblogic workshop wotif
Happy Darwin Day!
Happy Darwin Day.
Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.
Airconditioning Dilemma
You work in an airconditioned office. The thermostat for the airconditioner is set to 23.5C. The thermometer gauge says that it is currently 24.2C. Do you:
A) Ignore it;
B) Close the door to the stairwell that all the cold air is escaping down;
C) Set the thermostat to 21C so that it gets colder. After all, it [...]
YAGNI quote
From Ron Jeffries, courtesty of the XP Mailing list:
“YAGNI is about coding, not about thinking”
I’m sorry, I can’t believe this one…
Saw this as a comment on Russel Beattie’s blog: dozens of buses flooded out in New Orleans.
This is just bloody ridiculous. There’s probably close to a hundred buses there. Why weren’t they used in the pre-hurricane evacuation? Why weren’t they moved to higher ground if they weren’t used in the evacuation? Those buses represent 10,000 [...]
Um, how’s that going to work again?
Fujitsu is going to roll out trolleys with scanners so that shoppers can avoid the checkout queue. Naturally, this assumes a degree of honesty on the part of the shoppers. What’s amusing about this is how they plan to “trust, but verify”.
Salaries are rising.
Hmmm… salaries are going up again Speaking as an employee, not an employer, this sounds like good news. :)
Doesn’t this mean that they should have smaller classes?
The NY Times is running an article on the upcoming challenge to Florida’s controversial voucher system for student education. There seems to be a point that’s been overlooked.
Some businesses just don’t get it
Well, this entry started as a quick blurb to highlight an article on my boss here at Wotif.com in the Australian Financial Review But that’s not what it’s ended up as. :)
Comparing coffee with gemstones
There’s a couple of posts going around about another post comparing Ta-Da with Bla-Bla Look, folks, this isn’t comparing the two languages: this is comparing different coding styles, that strangely enough value different things!
Ah, so that’s the problem with the American education system.
The NY Times has an article on .”>problems with the US education system
The author, Diane Ravitch, points out the following:
It is hardly fair to blame high schools for the poor skills of their entering students. If students start high school without the basic skills needed to read, write and solve mathematics problems, then the governors [...]