interesting software conference this spring. Sessions include: Take Control of Your Team’s Decisions NOW! by Ken Schwaber Avoiding the Seven Pitfalls of Lean by Mary Poppendieck Pair Managing: Two Managers per Programmer by Jim Highsmith Two-Phase Waterfall: Implementation Considered Harmful by Robert C. Martin User Interaction: It Was Hard to Build, It Should Be Hard …
Author Archives: paulschreiber
handbook for touring bands
The Canadian government wants to help you tour successfully.
flickr: toys and inspiration
fun flickr toys that let you make calendars, billboards, fortune cookies and more out of your photos. fantastically beautiful high speed photos of water, sparks and motion. and lightning.
Sarah Slean has a way with words
Sarah Slean takes a break from poetry to share some tales from the road. Her words recall Finding Forrester: After the requisite used bookstore visit, we return to the room to find a tray full of goodies from our fairy godmother Natasha. Champagne, roses, chocolates, and fruits…heavens! I enjoy a brief moment of pretending I’m …
OK Go says “OK stop DRM”
Boing Boing points us at a New York Times piece and blog entry from OK Go’s Damian Kulash on the futility of DRM: From the blog: DRM just flat out sucks. Its most obvious problem is that it doesn’t work. No matter how sophisticated the particular software, it only takes one person to break it, …
a woz interview
The Cardinal Inquirer interviewed Steve Wozniak: Sometimes the engineers are true artists and really care what they’re doing, doing a really great job. Although, I don’t know how much I can even say that because the big companies, Microsoft, Apple and AOL, they tend to turn out the crappiest products, you know, software-wise. The ones …
Letterman tells O’Reilly off
We already know MSNBC doesn’t like Bill O’Reilly. Neither does CBS. Instead of the usual softballs, O’Reilly got mocked by David Letterman.
textbook pricing scams
Freakonomics readers get a lesson in price discrimination (or bad customer service): Interestingly, as I gave a lecture on “Price Discriminationâ€, using an example of the demand for textbooks (relatively inelastic) vs. novels (relatively elastic), the students pointed out that in our campus textbook store, “Freakonomics†is on sale at the regular price in the …
we quit
Separated at birth?
On your left, booker extraordinaire Natasha Bishop. On your right, Pollyanna Bush.