Jeff Atwood posted about LCD Progress today pointing out how to make sure you are setup for using your shiny new LCD monitor. He lists the following:
Always use the DVI port to connect your LCD. Set your monitor’s refresh rate to 60 Hertz.
I would like to add [...]
To do this, we reviewed notes from exit interviews, cross referenced annual reviews and ultimately came up with 178 voluntary terminations from people that would have been considered in the top 20%. To try and keep focused on macro issues, we consolidated the responses and placed them into categories: [...]
Mac OS is not Java-friendly. It doesn’t support any wireless toolkits, so no Java ME development is possible, and the recent decision to drop the Cocoa bindings sends the clear message that Apple doesn’t care about Java. I want to work on a Java-friendly operating system. http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000411.html
I’m still reluctant to [...]
[Developers] also want M&Ms for breakfast and a pony. Joel On Software: Private Offices Redux
I don’t often agree with Joel’s theories of software development management but things are changing… Joel, give me M&M’s for breakfast and a pony and I’m yours.
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Buildix is an agile development platform on a disk. Those folks at ThoughtWorks decided that creating a Knoppix based distribution that is a “load and run” development server was a great idea; and I agree. Chris Read, a ThoughtWorker known for his Build Master tendencies, describes Buildix as:
The whole point of [...]