Crunch and a book

I’m in the midst of crunch, so it’s been hard to keep up with anything outside of the work crunch world. We have around 2.5 weeks until the major milestone, which is more of a status milestone saying “this is what we have” than a deliverable. But it’s an important one, so we’re hitting the [...]

Back in the States

The trip was good, relaxing, and I hardly thought of events back home. I went back to work today with a fresh perspective and readiness I haven’t had in a while.
I read two books and got about halfway through on a third. One of the books I read was The Myths of Innovation, by [...]

Finished Dreaming in Code

I finished reading Dreaming in Code today. It’s a decent book, although it’s definitely geared toward the non-programmer. Even then, I did pick up the occasional good quote or reference while reading, and on occasion it was a useful exercise to relate their software development struggles to my own.
My curiosity piqued, I decided to check [...]

Reading Dreaming in Code

I started reading my way through Scott Rosenberg’s book Dreaming in Code, which is the story of a software team’s journey to build a personal information manager to challenge Microsoft’s Outlook. I’ll give my full impression of the book once I finish, but I did want to mention that the book is well-written and targetted [...]