Agile and Lean wisdom teaches us that hitting the stop button is something best avoided. Seymour Cray’s 1964 supercomputer had an Emergency Stop button on the operator’s console. It’s at 5 o’clock to the right-hand ‘bug’s eye’. The CDC 6600 ran silicon transistors rather than the high voltage and high temperature valves of earlier computers, […]
What the customer asks you to do, is not necessarily what they want you to do We all know the expression “the customer is always right”, well in many environments I’ve worked in that maxim is followed so strictly it becomes “do exactly what the customer tells you, and dont question it”. I thought about this recently, when a […]
The Definitive C# Document The C# language specification document has always been an excellent (and free) resource, useful for learning the language and supporting it. It’s well-written with clear examples and includes some of the background to the various syntax and keywords. It’s also Visual Studio 2012 If you have installed a paid-for edition of […]
