30-Jan-2006

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis posts a link to the Waterfall 2006 conference that is to be held at Niagara falls (what more appropriate location) on 1st April 2006. Register quickly while there are still places. Some of the main points that the conference will be discussing are:

• Agile development is passing our of favour. The Waterfall method of returning.

• People and their interactions are the problem, not the solution.

• Feedback is also the problem, not the solution.

• Fear is preferable to courage.
  

Keeping curriculums

Jose Alberto in SoftInSpain describes a new idea for an on-line business: the collection and presentation of curriculums. Although the on-line job agencies already do this, this new service would provide curriculums in a number of formats for a variety of jobs. The way to make money from this idea is a little sktechy.

TempImbox and Pookmail. Junk email boxes

jbravo in Programando... posts a link to Tempinbox and Pookmail, which allow you to set up a junk email box for those cases where you fear junk email.

AS2.0 summary on one sheet

Carlos Rovira in carlosrovira.com posts a link to the Action Script 2.0 cheat sheet that summarises ActionScript on one page.

Little details

Joserra in Najaraba.com has been making changes in his house and has noticed a difference between professionals and Professionals. In general almost everyone has done a reasonable job, but some have paid attention to the smallest detail: perfect corners, joints perfectly fitted, ... others have been less careful, yellow screws on white plastic, cornices that are not parallel to the floor, ...

When you create software, what are the details that we sometimes don't finish off? Because sometimes we are in a hurry, or the desire to finish a particularly boring project is high and we forget some of the details.

• You write code in which you forget to handle a possible error, still knowing that the error can arise.
• You do a quick design, thinking that if there is any problem with it, you can always solve it with more code.
• In Java, you use “+” to concatenate those two Strings that you had hanging about. :)
• In writing HTML, you forget to reduce it to the minimum.
• You know how to shorten the difficult loop structure, but you leave it for later.

In the end, when the details really matter is when you take on someone else's code, or when you return to your own some months after forgetting that project which you didn't really want to do.