So there’s blogging, but did you know you can take it straight to paper too?
Anyway, I find it interesting. Pretty cheap too.
Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts was reported to say:
“This was never going to be a bill that was going to make people happy,” he said. “No solution to a problem can be more elegant than the problem itself. We are dealing with a very difficult problem.”
Do you think this is true? I can’t say one thing for or against the bailout, but it seems to me that problems are never elegant, and solutions (at least the good ones) are always elegant.
Tim Berglund at JavaWorld, Writing software with the grain:
Agile software development has proven its worth from a business perspective: Agile teams produce better software faster and excel at retaining superior talent.
I couldn’t have said it better. I love the whole article, but especially this bit from page 4:
Waterfall projects required us to be good at predicting the future. Not only did we need to know the requirements of a product that wouldn’t come to market for perhaps another year or more. We also had to know how long it would take us to build features we wouldn’t become closely acquainted with for months. We were asked to be prophets of the highest caliber, and we know how well this worked out. Humans are notoriously bad at knowing the future. [...]
For Agile simply to wallow in the unrewarding human passion to know tomorrow before it happens would not be much of a help. This is, on balance, an unproductive tendency we humans have, and it is one to be minimized if possible.
“The consensus opinion regarding Vista is that it’s a massive six-years-in-the-making dud.” – Daring Fireball
I can’t say I know why Vista has failed, but ZDNet seems to know The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed. Their first reason “Apple successfully demonized Vista”:
Apple’s clever I’m a Mac ads have successfully driven home the perception that Windows Vista is buggy, boring, and difficult to use. After taking two years of merciless pummeling from Apple, Microsoft recently responded with it’s I’m a PC campaign in order to defend the honor of Windows. This will likely restore some mojo to the PC and Windows brands overall, but it’s too late to save Vista’s perception as a dud.
The marketing was good. But to say Vista failed because Apple had some good ads is absolutely ridiculous – even juvenile. True or not, you would never say “The Ford Focus could have been great car if only the Toyota Yaris didn’t have better TV commercials.” What petty nonsense.
The bottom line is that Apple’s ads and products resonate with people. Microsoft doesn’t.
Some thoughtful comments from Daring Fireball on the iPhone 3G:
Each of these features is of course available in devices other than the iPhone. A checklist of the iPhone’s features is not, in and of itself, impressive. Some competing devices, in fact, offer all the same fundamental features of the iPhone. The difference is in the overall experience.
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