The subject of 10x engineers [http://www.quora.com/10X-Engineers] & their existence is back. Again. It's just the nicknames that change: * rockstar programmers * cowboy programmers * 10x engineers Personally I thought that's not much to be said beyond what Scott Hanselman did here [http://www.hanselman....
Straight to the point On-line software services are everywhere: I do shopping, check map / route / timetable, order food, communicate, do financial operations, read books / news, watch movies, listen to music, play games - ALL OF THAT thanks to on-line software via Internet. It all looks like sci-fi movies coming to...
How does it look alike usually... Damn, this is so annoying & it happens every 2nd day: > A: "Have you seen this new tool - XYZ v.1.0? It's awesome, we have to set it one ASAP. It does ABC & DEF." > B:...
... or rather the stuff that is "OPEN". Not just because of Open Source Software [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software], but also: * Open Platforms [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_platform] * Open Systems [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing)] * Open Architecture [http://en.wikipedia.org/...
I kinda don't do typical (standard, simple, repetitive, low-risk) projects. Since pretty much always. Why? * because I don't want to * because my clients think they have other things better suited for us (my team) * because no-one would pay my rate for job anyone else could do...
During last few days I was exposed to few issues that have raised between people of two different roles (profiles?): managers & their subordinates. How unlikely, right? :) Although these were very different cases, that happened between very different people (in different organizations, even in different industries - but all of...