January 16, 2006 fun

My Son’s First Computer Program

Wonderful things happen when I tell me kids to stop playing video games and to stop watching TV (I try to limit them to an hour of each/day). I...

January 16, 2006 spout writing

A Toast to WPF

Here’s a review you don’t get very often: “Your WPF book is excellent. So good that I actually chose to read it instead of watching in flight...

January 16, 2006 spout

PM Skill #5: Unblock Others First

PMs often come from the ranks of engineers who’ve been “promoted” (aka taken away from the code to go to meetings). Many fight this trend, reverting...

January 12, 2006 spout

PM Skill #4: Exhibiting the Behavior You Want

At our last team milestone, we had stepped up the pace in the last two weeks to make sure that we were done in time for a demo by one of our...

January 12, 2006 spout writing

Survey: The Future of Publishing

Karen Gettman, my editor at Addison-Wesley, called and asked me a bunch of questions about the future of publishing yesterday. After our discussion,...

January 11, 2006 tools