Adequate is not good enough!
A friend of mine, nicknamed “LeToe” for his rather poor footballing skills, is MD of a global telecommunications company. Big business. In a roundabout way, we came to learn that on one of his staff improvement courses, he was caught trying to motivate an employee by chanting “adequate is not good enough”! [...]
Busy Java Developer: Stop, Look, Listen and Live
Back in the seventies, the “Stop, Look, Listen and Live” UK campaign was used to teach kids road safety. Funnily enough, the Green Cross Code Man, who became the face of this road awareness campaign, went on to become Darth Vader!
It is now time for Java Developers to Stop, Look, Listen and Live! [...]
Cognifide goes Google
This week we made Google our standard office platform for all mail, documentation and collaboration. So we switched off zimbra (mail) that we hosted ourselves, we are making better use of calendaring now and are tentatively becoming more familiar with their online spreadsheet and document apps. Nothing special there.
As a user, [...]
