Archiv für April 2006

How to become a hacker

29. Apr

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This is a nice article by Eric Raymond. The hacker spirit has always intrigued me since I wrote my first moon landing simulation program for a Wang programmable desktop calculator, using a graphite pencil to mark Hollerith cards with binary code.

Gantt charts considered uncool

20. Apr

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Again, I experienced problems with Gantt-chart based project planning tools in today’s IT projects. They do not scale, they are not agile, they cost a lot of time doing maintenance of the project plan and they usually do not allow meaningful forecasts. As a result, project plans tend to become obsolete quickly. Often, neither the team nor the management wants to read the reports generated by those tools, so why bother and use them at all?

Wishes come true faster than expected

07. Apr

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What did I say yesterday? I wanted a virtual Windows under Mac OS X? That was yesterday. One day later…

Windows runs on the Mac

06. Apr

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The stock of Apple Computer, Inc. rose 6% today after Apple announced that Windows would now run on the new Intel-based Mac computers, too. What a fuss!
When I want to buy a cool computer, I buy a Mac with OSX, not with Windows, of course. What I really like to have is a fast, virtual Windows under OSX so that I can still use my old Windows software in parallel to the OSX applications. Doesn’t anybody want to port VMware to Intel-based OSX? I’d buy a license immediately.

Open-source projects fix their bugs fast

05. Apr

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ZDNet reports that open source projects have a low bug rate and fix their bugs quite fast. I know that because I am part of a quite disciplined open source community!