Abhishek Tiwari
OCTOBER 31, 2010
It is good to know your data. But there is clear distinction between being data driven vs data informed. No matter which area you work, there is always an opportunity to make additional gains by closely observing the characteristic and quality of your data. By experimenting and looking carefully at the data you may identify some hidden patterns which may not be visible or obvious.
The Agile Manager
OCTOBER 31, 2010
In this last post in the series on restructuring IT, we'll take a look at some things we can do to get going on a restructure. The place to start is to establish a reason for restructure that everybody inside and outside the organization can understand. Tech is inherently optimistic, and we have short memories. As a result, we don't have very good self awareness.
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Sutter's Mill
OCTOBER 22, 2010
Elements of Design. At C++ and Beyond next week (and in December) I’ll also be giving a brand-new half-day talk on Elements of Design. I’m passionate about design, in part because it requires specific skills and taste, but most off all because it’s so important for every programmer — whether building a new library or extending one, building a new class or maintaining one, and that covers pretty much all of us.
Tim Kadlec
OCTOBER 17, 2010
Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. In my conversations with designers and developers who don’t optimize, a few of the same myths are constantly brought up.
Sutter's Mill
OCTOBER 7, 2010
Lambdas, Lambdas Everywhere. We’ll be posting abstracts (summaries) of the C++ and Beyond 2010 sessions over the coming days over at the C&B site. Below is the first, for my talk on “Lambdas, Lambdas Everywhere.” This is a brand new talk. I delivered a ‘sneak peek’ preview of a subset of this material in conjunction with the ISO C++ standards meeting in Switzerland two months ago, but the full talk will be given publicly for the first time at C++ and Beyond.
Tim Kadlec
OCTOBER 5, 2010
In an interesting post on the Harvard Business Review, Tony Schwartz argues that happiness is overrated : …when we seek happiness as the ultimate state, we’re destined to be disappointed. Absent unhappiness, how would we even recognize it? If we’re fortunate, happiness is a place we visit from time to time rather than inhabit permanently.
Tim Kadlec
OCTOBER 27, 2010
I was reading an excellent post by Jonathan Harris entitled “Our Digital Crisis” and one section in particular jumped out at me. Harris was talking about how our online tools are better for breadth than depth and generally increase noise. We trade self-reflection for busyness, gorging ourselves on it and drowning in it, without recognizing the violence of that busyness, which we perpetrate against ourselves and at our peril.
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