gnosi - Slashdot User

Comment First - Stay out of their way (Score 1) 551

by gnosi on Friday December 12, 2008 @05:25PM (#26096087) Attached to: How Do I Manage Seasoned Programmers?

The first and best thing you can do is to stay out of their way.

The second thing to do is to find out what is preventing them from getting their development done and to eliminate or reduce the interference.

Since they are seasoned they will have an understanding for the need of management updates they should be asked for these updates no more than once a week.

The one thing that you should be making decisions on is the business needs of the application. For this you should understand and communicated the business needs.

Show the team that you are interested in the crafting of their solution to the business need.

Avoid being a PHB at all costs.

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Comment Re:USPS (Score 1) 238

by gnosi on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @07:15PM (#26053081) Attached to: USPS Server Meltdown

I would say that the USPS pretends that that is their motto only in such away that they can claim "Look how dedicated we are!!" but deny an implied service level agreement to such standards.

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Comment USPS (Score 2, Interesting) 238

by gnosi on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @05:29PM (#26051801) Attached to: USPS Server Meltdown

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

But the computers will!!!

You do realize that this has never been the motto or creed of the USPS.

It is taken from the courier service of the Persian Empire. See Wikipedia.

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Submission + - Where to start : Web Programing

Submitted by gnosi on Sunday September 14, 2008 @08:13PM

gnosi writes: For years I have had no need to have any more than a cursory understanding of web applications and how they function. I have an extensive background in non web programing for business applications. Now that I see a maturing of the web programing model, I feel inclined to join the fray. I am lost in a world of programing frameworks, content management systems and related technologies. Where should one start. Being an avid Python advocate I have wanted to avoid Java but it seems the rest of the world has chosen Java/Java script as the language of choice for web development. Should I pick up JBOSS/Eclipse? Are these just the frameworks for data processing? How is the content of a web site managed if it is different from the back end application? So many questions. Where does one begin?

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