Jane Prusakova's blog

Facts of life about self-promotion

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 2:36am.
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An interesting article about marketing yourself, gender differences, and what it takes to be successful and have a shot at changing the world:

Pair Programming For Four

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 5:09pm.
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Pair programming is hard enough with two people working at the same computer.

2010: have a "hug" day

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 10:24am.
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Dates not to miss in the next year:

  • February 21: Hug An Indie Mac Developer Day
  • March 13 is Hug an Engineer Day
  • May 23rd: Hug Your Designer Day

likeable people make the team more productive?

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 5:45pm.
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A great quote from Penelope Trunk, an out-and-in-your-face blogger talking about work, life, and life at work:

Advice from G.K. Chesterton

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 12:00pm.
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Two common situations: an organization has all sorts of bureaucratic procedures, a legacy code base includes lots of ugly old code. Both seemingly serve no purpose.

Social media - how much is a <<friend>>?

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 9:54am.
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An Australian company offers FaceBook friends and Twitter followers for sale.

Improving Enterprises

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 10:53pm.
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Improving Enterprises is one of the hot companies on Inc.

Meetings or no meetings?

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 3:31pm.
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Interesting insight into the cost and structure of work time:
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Next Project Will Be Different!

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 1:18pm.
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With this latest economic crisis another area of science is coming to an understanding that theories based on knowledge about people are both different and more important than numbers-based theories.

Teaching To The Test

Submitted by Jane Prusakova on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:02am.
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When teachers' performance is measured by students' test results, interesting things happen. First of all, the learning disappears, and test preparation begins.