May 2009
21 posts
Peter Principle →
The Peter Principle is the principle that “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.” While formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1968 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the “salutary science of Hierarchiology”, “inadvertently founded” by Peter, the principle has real...
Top 10 Programming Fonts →
Monaco is my champion but after seeing Inconsolata for the first time, I will give it a try.
(via HiveLogic)
A relaxing, soothing and warm emergency
Engineer: I heard you want the Emergency Notification System completely redone.
Customer: Yes, exactly!
E: OK, let's talk about how you want it to be.
C: I want something relaxing, soothing and warm.
E: (What the?) Are we still talking about ENS?
C: Yes. That green and red thing is too tense. And those SMS messages are just sad, so does the e-mails. Can't we employ pastel colors and warmer, friendly messages?
E: I see... I'll be here again on Wednesday. Let's talk about this thoroughly on that day.
WatchSIGNS from Patrick Hughes
(via Tina Roth Eisenberg’s fabulous swissmiss)
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311 — Beautiful Disaster
Today seems like...
Measures of yearning.
Boy: Guess how much I missed you.
Girl: As tall as Maintower?
Boy: +241 meters more.
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The book that deserves a special mention.
I own this book since winter 2004 and now it’s impossible to accurately calculate how much did this book contributed to my career and made me smile whenever I hit a previously well documented antipattern.
My boss introduced me this masterpiece after attending Colorado Software Summit 2003 and watching Bill Dudney talk live on J2EE AntiPatterns.
This was a gem for a junior solution...
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