Monthly Archives: January 2007

Lie, Manipulate, Deliver a Product on Time

I have never worked on a group software or web development project that was completed on time, except when working with top-notch, experienced project managers, in other words, iron-fisted filthy liars. Here is how they work:
Upon receiving a task to complete, these project managers first ensure that no direct communication occurs between the client and [...]

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…And I Come Crawling Back

Firefox is, after all, the best browser available. A week of experimenting with IE7 has shown that, surprise surprise, it’s unstable and continues to ignore W3C standards. Too many of the sites I use, from banking to Google apps, are not compatible with Opera, so the latter is out of the running. I guess I [...]

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Firefox Blows It

Firefox is to IE what a Mac is to a PC. It has a remarkably sexy logo, marketing campaign and interface. It’s what the cool kids are using. And like the Mac, it sucks at the core. (An aside on Macs: my first computer was a slow and buggy Mac, but when the Macbook Pro [...]

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