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Sorting with Sound

By ⋅ August 23, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

via Geek.com – yes, I subscribe to stuff like this in my RSS reader … I thought this was interesting on two levels … The Engineering student within appreciates the differences in sorting techniques (although I think I could speed up that bubble sort …) I also think these videos provide a simple illustration of [...]

Art, with some elements of Inspiration
Managing Change: Inspiration, Art, Science, and Execution

By ⋅ March 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Often, when trying to figure out how to “make things happen”, your focus switches between multiple targets. What am I doing? Why am I doing this? And How can I get the others to understand what I am doing? Real change happens along a continuum that stretches from The Big Idea to Real Results, and [...]

Execution
Thoughts on Why Tech Folks Hate Documentation

By ⋅ July 8, 2006 ⋅ 4 comments

I’ve had some flashes of insight on why technical folks don’t like to document stuff. Currently, I’m thrashing thru a skunkworks project that is evolving into something that will need to be reasonably available, robust, etc. I’m also trying to lead by example; I ask my teams to build for sustainability and document so they [...]

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