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• Decomposing a book club

  Book clubs can be a great way to foster learning and encourage growth on a team. They aren't always the best avenue for training, which might include: Formal training Industry events Presentations Brown bag lunches etc. I always enjoyed book clubs... Posted Dec 12 2007, 04:39 PM by bogardj with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: People

• Hall of shame

  We keep a "Hall of Shame" of WTF-level code snippets to remind us that however bad we might think things get, it could always be worse. It also serves as a reminder to us that we can't be complacent with ignorance, and lack of strong technical... Posted Nov 29 2007, 05:05 PM by bogardj with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Legacy Code, C#, People

• Some 80/20 feedback

  Jeff had an interesting post today on putting programmers into two bins , an 80% and a 20%. The 20% were the alpha-geeks, and the 80% were everyone else, "Morts" for lack of a better term. One characterization was that the 20% folks let tech... Posted Nov 26 2007, 02:38 PM by bogardj with | with no comments Filed under: People