One common practice in development is known as a “Code Freeze”. This is when the developers stops all work on what they are doing and hands it off for review. When the reviewer is finished reviewing they give their feedback and development continues until another code freeze is reached. This practice seems pretty basic- but its something a lot of people bypass or forget about. I’m hear to say this process is extremely important.
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Filed under: Work on May 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Its been about a week since we got back home- Now that we are completly settled back in I’m going to start to recap our adventures. Stand By….
Filed under: Personal on March 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
So the time is coming near. Honestly, conferences make me feel like a kid waiting for summer camp. The friends I haven’t seen in months, the parties, its all a great time. This year, its going to be an even bigger adventure.
Earlier this year Ian was approached by one of the organizers of SXSWi to oversee the organization of part of the conference and since then He, Shimon Rura and I have been colaberating on this venture Open Format. I know the name is kinda vague… So I figured I’d take this moment to talk about it.
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Filed under: Personal, Networking on February 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Before our conference adventure begins. I’m so excited, I love conferences…. I’m such a Geek.
Filed under: Uncategorized, Personal, Networking on February 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Everyone experiences burn out, its a part of work. Especially in the internet industry… You have tons of projects, short deadlines, and never ending QA. Surprisingly, that isn’t what causes me to feel burned out. The times I feel burned out is not when I have too much work, but rather when I feel like I’m excluded from parts of the company that directly effect my work. There is nothing that makes me a more disgruntled worker than decisions being made about production flow with out even the consideration that I might have an opinion.
In addition, at a small company, why is it necessary to make decisions with out telling the entire company what is going on? Why would it be bad to tell the developers if we are profitable or losing money? Why can’t the Project Manager know about the human resource issues that have arisen? If you trust your staff, and believe they are passionate about the company, shouldn’t you be as open with them as you can?
Thoughts anyone?
Filed under: Work, Personal on February 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments »