March 2009 - Posts

• Multi-core Mania

  Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:02 PM | 6 Comments
  
  

  When the market is slack, nothing succeeds better at tightening it up than promoting serial group-panic within the community. As an example of this, a wave of multi-core panic spread across the Internet about 18 months ago. IT organizations, it was said, Read More by Tony Davis | 6 Comments | Comment on this post

• Developer Burnout

  Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:15 PM | 16 Comments
  
  

  One of the sure signs of a dedicated and passionate programmer, sys admin or DBA, is that their passion inevitably invades their private life. Writing code, monitoring server-based systems or looking after databases, is not something they think about Read More by Tony Davis | 16 Comments | Comment on this post

• The Greasy Pole

  Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:29 PM | 28 Comments
  
  

  Programmers often have an old-fashioned view of their trade. They enter the profession imagining that they will spend most of their time puzzling over complex algorithms, developing dazzlingly creative and compelling applications, writing operating systems Read More by Tony Davis | 28 Comments | Comment on this post