Dave Fellows, a partner in crime on one or two projects has a note on his blog about releasing a business proposition but delaying the build of supporting IT infrastructure until just before its required
This reminded of the heady days of Egg during the dotcom boom...
As news comes in, unsurprisingly, that Washington is considering technological solutions to copyright infringement on file swapping networks I finally find myself galvanised to write about the subject.
All in all, I think the DMCA (UCLA Summary) and the EUCD (Stand Summary) are based on falsehoods of a massive scale.
ASP.Net introduces some new concepts in Web Development that many aren't familiar with. I've come across enough projects done badly in the same way that I've concluded this must be an anti-pattern...
"The ASP.Net Traditional Web Anti-Pattern" is what web developers coming from all web backgrounds Perl/CGI, ASP/COM, JSP, PHP and others all seem to build if not given adequate time, guidance or training in .Net Web Development.
Dale Emery has a new post on Value Chains. I didn't find it myself, Alan Francis spotted it...
I thought it was interesting as it reminded me of a process I took a team of mine through a while ago. We derived the needs of an enterprise architecture in a direct and evidenced way from the company's brand values through a value chain analysis.
According to an interesting news item on The Boston Channel several managers of Wendy's restaurants were gullible enough to ask employees to strip search on the basis of just a phone call.
This is interesting from a security perspective as it highlights that many, many people will simply believe you are whoever you say. Worrying really.
I found this linked from Simple Geek (Chris Anderson's Blog)
Another C# refactoring tool crossed my browser windows today...
JetBrains ReSharper The Jetbrains C# plugin for Visual Studio EAP program is open: http://www.jetbrains.net/resharper The username and password are both 'eapuser'.
Owen Rogers (Thoughtworks) presenting our ATDD Test Framework thoughts at XPDay 2003 Courtesy of Tom Poppendieck, Tom's other photos of the day. Fortunately, I didn't make it into frame - I'm off to the left.
I've had two calls recently from people looking to bring in resource for MS CMS that seem to tie up. One was from an organisation who needed to line up resource in order to show they could do the work. The second, a few days later, came from another organisation who had just won the bid and needed to find resource quickly - before it became obvious to the client they had none.
This is a really extreme case of JIT resourcing, and strikes me as very high risk. It also suggests that extending the idea of Grey Matter versus Grey Hair to your bid selection process makes sense.
I've just been down to see some guys in the middle of nowhere... Beautiful little office on a deer park, with views over fields and so incredibly quiet. A company called Torchbox who are getting up-to-speed with MS CMS.
While I was there the big question was why one of their placeholders wasn't working, which I think we figured, but I also put together a very basic XML Placeholder control to act as a base for them. I thought it would be worth dropping it up here for the record.