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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Never Question a Drunk

21-Aug-08

A woman was shopping at the local supermarket where she selected:

A half-gallon of 2% milk
A carton of eggs 
A quart of orange juice 
A head of romaine lettuce 
A 2 lb. can of coffee
A 1 lb. package of bacon 

As she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as [...]

A Branching Strategy

18-Aug-08

 
Executive Summary
To support increased responsiveness to business needs, an enterprise is considering a move to monthly site releases. 
Increased frequency of releases places additional demands upon the engineering, QA and release teams with regard to developing, maintaining, testing, and tracking multiple lines of development.  The challenge to the enterprise is how to balance the engineering team’s [...]

Macbook Pro Expresscard Latch - Quick Fix

01-Aug-08

I travel a lot.  On the road, I depend upon wireless connectivity everywhere I go.  Recently, I got fed up with the lack of dependable Wifi service (it is horrible at ATL for example), so I purchased a Laptop Connect card. EVDO, 2xG, 3G… if there’s service, this card will pick it up.
This story has [...]