Brutally simple deployment has advantages

"one of the main reasons why operations stop and restart processes in applying a managed change – to be sure the process can indeed be restarted"

http://williamlouth.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/jazoon-%E2%80%9809-the-conference/

Eclipse CTRL+SHIFT+t

On a class name will show you which "file" that class is coming from. Thanks to Virender!

Common management diseases

Noticed these three recently:

• Incapacitated by worrying about long distant problems - this sort of manager when asked a question will fail to solve the simple problem we have now because of pondering how it would be solved if we were 100 times bigger than we are now. So when asked who should have the final word on certain issues the manager responds with a lecture on the problems of organisations like IBM and Google managing architectural decisions... There are only ten of us!?
• Bored by their real job - this manager will neglect the work they are meant to be getting on with and put huge amounts of energy into a daily series of fads.
• Blinded by glitter - a manager that doesn't real know what is going on is totally blinded by the buzzword compliant and the "bored by their real job" people. The plain speaking guy that is not constantly coming up with wiz bang projects is of no interest and the manager can't spot who is actually doing useful work.

Yep. I'm bitter.