Year: 2005

At times it is useful to send a text message… Some friends keep asking how i manage to send text messages to their cell phones even though i don’t have one myself. Well, here’s the secret… (oh nooo, i can see all of my faithful geek readers yawning) I use the text services at sms.de… Continue reading sending sms via the web

The Economist on software development. the problem: 30% of all software projects are cancelled, nearly half come in over budget, 60% are considered failures by the organisations that initiated them, and nine out of ten come in late the solution: better software tools and processes The three big industry trends—lifecycle management, testing and open source—come… Continue reading managing complexity

It’s Sunday evening and I can’t think of anything blog-worthy to write. Feel tired and restless. Weather has been unusually warm for January. Yesterday felt a bit like spring. Beautiful sunshine and about 15 degrees warm. For those of you that are waiting for snow, here’s a snow photo I took 3 weeks ago: or… Continue reading nothing much

interesting read: Joe Winchester’s JDJ article, Who Needs “Hardship Programming”? quote: Let’s take cars, for example – my attitude is that when they break I take them to the mechanic; what’s fun isn’t so much tinkering with the engine myself and gaining some kind of machismo pride in doing so, it’s the journeys I take… Continue reading about hardship programming

Massimo Rocchi will be performing at the Tabourettli from 11th Jan to 12th Feb. The CD “äUä” is great… and it was at the same time my first formal introduction to Swiss German, when I was still staying far away from the Swiss German Kantons in southern Switzerland. I particularly like his observations on language… Continue reading Massimo Rocchi in Basel