Robi's Ringolog

Why work doesn't happen at work.

http://www.snotr.com/video/6302

@oberhamsi made a cool vis of RingoJS dev in 2010:

http://vimeo.com/19289043

"There are several ways that management unwittingly demotivates employees and diminishes, if not outright destroys, their enthusiasm.

Many companies treat employees as disposable. At the first sign of business difficulty, employees—who are usually routinely referred to as "our greatest asset"—become expendable.

Employees generally receive inadequate recognition and reward: About half of the workers in our surveys report receiving little or no credit, and almost two-thirds say management is much more likely to criticize them for poor performance than praise them for good work.

Management inadvertently makes it difficult for employees to do their jobs. Excessive levels of required approvals, endless paperwork, insufficient training, failure to communicate, infrequent delegation of authority, and a lack of a credible vision contribute to employees' frustration."

— Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation

Harmony Of My Dreams

by Brendan Eich

Total must-read!

"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."

— Dijkstra

Dev: Let me sum up. The definition of SOAP is in constant flux, SOAP is anything but simple, and it is no longer meant for accessing objects-even though that’s what all the tools still do.

SG: That’s about right, but we’re way ahead of you on this. We’ve deprecated the meaning of the SOAP acronym.

Dev: Really! What does it stand for now?

SG: Nothing.

Dev: (blink)

SG: Let me tell you about UDDI.

— The S stands for Simple by Pete Lacey

Curing PL Anxiety

by Manuel Simoni

Good read.