Archive for 'Experiences' Category
Is policies for password really useful?
21 August 2008This argument is discussed in the excellent book “Why Software Sucks“, password policies are really useful?
I give you my opinion. I have really a lot of username/password ranges from my home banking account to various sites like, flickr, dotnetkick etc etc. My problem is that the amount of passwords is becoming really huge and I [...]
Crunch mode is effective?
12 August 2008I stumbled on this post of Marco, that directed me on the original post, speaking about crunch time. In my experience it is a very abused technique, expecially here in Italy, where managers tells you “We are late, we are not in time, we must hurry, we must work more!”
The original articles shows a lot [...]
Share documents in a distributed team
25 June 2008Some days ago I received a mail with an analysis document for a Project I’m working to. Since we are a distributed team of programmers, someone still uses mail to share document with members of the team.
This is simply WRONG!!!
The reason are
1) It lacks tracking. Some people uses to append a version such as Document_Ver32.doc, [...]
The importance of good communication
23 June 2008In a team, communication between members is of great importance. I found that a lot of bug or mistakes in software development, quite often derive from incomplete or not well conducted analysis.
I’m not an expert of software analysis, but I found that a quite good analysis, even an informal one, can give great benefit [...]
History of a merge
5 June 2008Source control management is the key to work on a team, but to work with it efficiently there is the need of experience. In a project, I’m working with some windows services that gather some data that is to be showed in a web application. I’m not supposed to work with the web application, that [...]