Like most Ops managers, I’ve come across and dealt with my fair share of IT disasters. I’ve gone the route of hiring an in-house staff, only to realize that it exhausted my budget and half the time I was paying for employees to sit around and wait for a disaster to strike. I’ve also gone the route of hiring an outside company to run my IT support, again only to find that I was being overcharged at every turn and I had no REAL immediate support, more like we were put into a “Queue” and when our n… Continue

I joined this Ning quite pre-occupied by the comment I had added to one of Phil Jones' posts, "Live Together, Die Alone". Rather than quibble with the title (I think one of the many gifts of true community is that one can pass away in good company.) I responded to something else he had there written, i.e. "I went looking for peer-to-peer computing projects that looked likely to do some good." (NB:… Continue

Science Magazine reports that a study of young chess players found that although the best did score well on IQ tests, there ability correlated most significantly with the amount they practiced.

Need I remind you that pair-programming is a great way to practice programming. If you want to be great, give it a try. -- Ward

Science 21 September 2007 317: 1657 [DOI: 10.1126/science.317.5845.1657d]
(in Random Samples)