It’s been a busy month or so, so I’m behind on the blog.
For now, I’ll just toss 2 small things.
First is an observation about life in IT:
“You don’t have to run faster than the mountain lion. You
just need to run faster that the person next to you.”
That actually happened this week. My group was on a project
with a silly-tight deadline. This was one of those things where the management
had promised a target date a year ago, then sat on the project. In February,
they started to hammer out the requirements.
On the last week of August, they produced a one-page requirements doc
(no, really!) with hand-drawn scribbles all over it, since it had been changed
just a few minutes before the IT handover. It necessitated the change of almost
every software system my group controls. We were given 4 weeks – less 2 weeks
testing time.
This week, one of the other teams got eaten by the mountain
lion and admitted they couldn’t make the date. We implemented nothing, but look
like heroes.
The 2nd thing is a link to an article I thought
was interesting. The OP-ED author ventures his opinion that it’s time to drop
Java. His reasons are actually somewhat compelling, I think, although I’m not
sure I totally agree with the conclusion and suspect there are other options. At
least, I thought the piece was worth a read. Note that he’s specifically
talking about Java on the clients, not on the servers.
Thanks for playing.
--kevin
