Recently, I upgraded to Leopard on my MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, it contains a firewall that is not based on port numbers but on the name of the executable application. For me as a Java guy, this means...
Is this the reason why Apple does not provide Java 6 for Mac OS X Leopard? A Java 6 open source port is coming! Until now, I did not have time to try it. The description on...
Can you define the word „confusion“? For me, it simply means that somebody is trying to do two (or more) different things at the same time.
Example: You work as an architect in a software project. Customers...
In recent projects, I encounter increasingly heterogeneous development teams. Some develop here, some next door, some in another city, some across the world in India. Sometimes, I watch one of those teams when they meet people from...
Mark Masterson reasoned in his recent blog entry about why it is possible for a customer to change requirements so often, even fundamental ones that change the whole software development solution. He answers:
The physical laws of...
Mean trick: If someone tries to nail you down in a dialogue, simply ask him a few silly questions and he will be lost. This entry in a German psychology blog explains what happens when you do....