Monthly Archives: December 2008

Presentation Presence

A software vendor gave a sales presentation at my office today. The vendor sent two people to present – a sales guy and an engineer. The sales guy started the pitch with an overview of the software. Sounds great, says us, but we need a bunch of technical details to know if it’s worth pursuing. [...]

How to tell you’re a bad programmer

How to tell you’re a bad programmer: 1. You think you’re an awesome programmer. 2. But no one else has ever told you so. 3. You’ve never looked at old code you wrote and thought, “Ewwww! That is horrible code! What was I thinking???” 4. You’ve never looked at someone else’s code and thought, “Dang, [...]