TweetRecently, I was at a company website browsing for jobs. As usual, I ran into a typical catch-22: Every career advisor on the planet will tell you to customize your cover letter and résumé for the position, but I have yet to run into a website that lets you upload a different résumé or cover…
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Mac voodoo: Always use the combo updater
TweetThis is just a piece of mac OSX voodoo: I never use Software Update for a major OS upgrade, I always use the combo installer. Even though it’s a larger download, the combo updater ends up refreshing a big hunk of your OS so any bits that have rotted get fixed. I’ve also used the…
Why I Like DB2
TweetI cannot for the life of me figure out why people use MySQL when they have DB2 to choose from. DB2 is free for 1 core and 1GB of I/O buffer and as much data as you want. 99% of the websites in the world could run just fine on free DB2. The workgroup version…
Why Agile Works: QA should not be the Sphincter
TweetI dedicate this post to all the QA departments I had to deal with early in my career. This post is all about how typical project management styles, especially the so called waterfall or even worse “half-assed waterfall” makes things hell for QA. So first, we’ll talk about the problem, then we’ll talk about how…