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Summary: In this column, David Gelperin presents a problem familiar to many of us?what is the best way to record requirements? Given the limitations of static templates, how can we best manage high-volume, multidimentional requirements information? Read on and then share your experiences. - http://www.stickyminds.com[..]bjectId=5936&tth=DYN&tt=siteemail&iDyn=2

Why specs matter - Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes. I have at various times counted myself in both groups, so I can say this with the utmost confidence. - http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/08/16/specs

Explain why we should share the vision with the team - http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]6/sell-your-requirements-to-development/

An OK article about scope changing management - http://www.projectperfect.com.au/info_scope_creep_mgmt.php

Using mind maps and story tree to manage requirement - http://epistemologic.com[..]-user-stories-mind-maps-and-story-trees/

Interesting software for requirement management - http://www.technobuff.net[..]app/product/showProduct.do?name=jfeature

Another angle to view requirement - not to blame, not to prevent responsible, just try to talk and solve problem is better than document - http://www.agileproductdesign.com[..]com/blog/requirements_considered_harmful

Template and sample for spec. - http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com[..]et109stru&asrc=EM_NLN_2350433&uid=703565

If you want to be a good product manager, understand unmet needs and use that insight to drive requirements. - http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]/2008/05/06/stop-gathering-requirements/

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正如不幸會傳染一樣

幸福也是會傳染的

總是認為自己很不幸,自然不知道何謂幸福

http://www.xanga.com/wiyona/608763030/item.html

Do we want our happiness built on the unfortunate of other people? http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post_25.html

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Fri May 09 23:36:52 HKT 2008 From /weblog/business

political

Interesting discussion of how to put middle man in office - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/share-my-mind-again.html

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Thu May 08 14:00:20 HKT 2008 From /weblog/unix/script

date

A working date calculation script

http://www.unix.com[..]s/4870-days-elapsed-between-2-dates.html

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Wed May 07 19:19:02 HKT 2008 From /weblog/database

mysql

It is surprising for me that it is this easy - http://alan.blog-city.com/read/1204253.htm

MySQL Proxy for table partition - http://www.hscale.org/display/HSCALE/Home http://pero.blogs.aprilmayjune.org/ http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy

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Wed May 07 18:22:54 HKT 2008 From /weblog/winxp

system utilities

Recover from register currupt - http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/lpt/a/6643

Introduce a utility to clean up profile and speed up shutdown time (probably more than that) - http://www.intelliadmin.com[..]-windows-takes-so-long-to-shut-down.html

A long long list of admin tools - http://www.windowsdevcenter.com[..]/07/18/best-windows-admin-downloads.html

DD for windows - http://sourceforge.net/projects/windd/

Free file recovery - http://www.softperfect.com/products/filerecovery/ http://www.softpedia.com[..]m/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Restoration.shtml

File unlocker: If you get message that don't allow you to open / delete file as it is in use, may be you can use this tool and make it editable / deletable - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ Other than that, if you have file name that is too long and cannot be deleted, this tool can help either.

Remote command runner - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

Snapit, capture text at screen to clipboard, amazing~ http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp

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Wed May 07 17:59:58 HKT 2008 From /weblog/google/development

scalability

http://highscalability.com/behind-scenes-google-scalability
http://highscalability.com/google-appengine-second-look

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Wed May 07 15:51:52 HKT 2008 From /weblog/software+engineering/testing

junit

A nice example of convert dbunit from using junit to testng - http://www.realsolve.co.uk[..]h/blog.php?name=philzoio&mydate=20050826

redirect junit output to a file - http://www.diotalevi.com/weblog/?p=43

invokeNCopiesWithTimeout, run a test ( in runnable() ) for n times and see if it ok for multi-thread likely or not - http://binkley.blogspot.com[..]/running-n-foreground-tasks-in-java.html

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Wed May 07 15:48:16 HKT 2008 From /weblog/java/threading

collections

Even though


    private List synchList = Collections.synchronizedList(new LinkedList());

is thread safe, serialize sync List is NOT thread safe for sure. The story is, if you only synchronized the collection, and if we try to get the iterator in concurrent access environment, it will throws currencymodificationexception . I personally think this is a bug of having Collections.synchronizedCollection().

For collection is small, may be making defensive copy http://www.javapractices.com/Topic15.cjp is good. Otherwise, in java5, there is concurrency collection.

reference:
http://jroller.com[..]ntry=collections_synchronizedlist_broken
http://jroller.com/page/ctarrington?entry=java_collections_trivia

A very good, short discussion about Java5 concurrency support of Map operation, include use of FutureTask and putIfAbsent() method from ConcurrentMap. - http://www.javaspecialists.co.za/archive/newsletter.do?issue=125

Other then lterate through the elements, adding and removing elements can also be problem, this article document a few good cases about that - http://rayfd.wordpress.com[..]en-a-synchronized-class-isnt-threadsafe/

Samples of using Queue.drainTo() - http://binkley.blogspot.com[..]rforming-fixed-amounts-of-work-with.html

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Wed May 07 15:27:48 HKT 2008 From /weblog/software+engineering

project management

Only the programmer who is going to write the code can schedule it. Any system where management writes a schedule and hands it off to programmers is doomed to fail. Only the programmer who is going to do the work can figure out what steps they will need to take to implement that feature.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html

Never, ever let managers tell programmers to reduce an estimate. Many rookie software managers think that they can "motivate" their programmers to work faster by giving them nice, "tight" (unrealistically short) schedules. I think this kind of motivation is brain-dead.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html

Micromanagement or Macromanagement? http://boncey.org/2006_10_29_how_to_mentor_programmers

But, unfortunately, as a general rule, Project Managers have no training. Even if they do have training in the form of an MBA, MBA education is impractical and useless; the academic community has completely failed us in this respect. Furthermore, Project Managers are more often based on personal friendships and company politics; they are rarely based on management skill.
And, finally, most managers do not acknowledge that management is a skill that they must study and learn so they don't study or learn it.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com[..]DiscussTopicParent=8469&ixDiscussGroup=5

An explanation of agile, I think it is more about project management - http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2007/04/23/short-reach

Some common problem of software project management - http://ajaxwidgets.com[..]thomas/9_reasons_why_software_project.bb
http://ntschutta.com[..]ou-know-your-project-is-in-trouble-when/

http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]roduct-management-vs-project-management/

Brief description of thoughtworks codejam - http://blog.nona.name/200804274.html

Listen first. Measure later. http://digerati-illuminatus.blogspot.com[..]gspot.com/2008/05/measure-or-listen.html

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Tue May 06 14:25:04 HKT 2008 From /weblog/design/interview

donald knuth

Donald Knuth on Multi-Core, Unit Testing, Literate Programming, and XP:

I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. To me, "re-editable code" is much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I could go on and on about this. If you’re totally convinced that reusable code is wonderful, I probably won’t be able to sway you anyway, but you’ll never convince me that reusable code isn’t mostly a menace...

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=276&thread=229705

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