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The Myth of the New India - New York Times

July 8, 2006 · Outsourcing

“India is a roaring capitalist success story.” So says the latest issue of Foreign Affairs; and last week many leading business executives and politicians in India celebrated as Lakshmi Mittal, the fifth richest man in the world, finally succeeded in his hostile takeover of the Luxembourgian steel…

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Gliffy - Create and share diagrams online

June 28, 2006 · Tools and techniques

Gliffy is easy, free, and fun! Diagramming in your web browser without downloading additional software Similar to Visio, yet in your web browser Desktop application feel in a web-based diagramming solution Add collaborators to your work and watch it grow Link to published Gliffy drawings from your…

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Adventures in Mac/Windows Wonkery

June 25, 2006 · Tools and techniques

Well, I must say I’m enjoying the new MacBook. I still have a need to run a few Windows programs (Visio, Project), and so for the first few days this week I experimented with Apple’s BootCamp. This is a perfectly satisfactory solution, as long as you don’t mind shutting down and rebooting whenever…

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Broken Windows Theory

June 19, 2006 · Knowledge work

Vista. The term stirs the imagination to conceive of beautiful possibilities just around the corner. And “just around the corner” is what Windows Vista has been, and has remained, for the past two years. In this time, Vista has suffered a series of high-profile delays, including most recently the…

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Great Mistakes in Technical Leadership

June 12, 2006 · Knowledge work

If you’ve just been appointed technical lead (of anything), take ten minutes to read this. Perhaps the most difficult job to do on any software development project is that of Technical Lead. The Technical Lead has overall responsibility for all technical aspects of the project - design, code…

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