Git on Windows is like using a machine gun to paint a Peace poster. It just seems wrong.
Git was designed to support better configuration management of the Linux operating system open source project.
But, so what?
Maybe the real point is that Git's success in areas far beyond its original intent just reiterates how highly it's regarded. Or, better yet - that nothing is ever used as its intended.
I digress.
The real point of this post was simply to catalog an issue Google search results haven't yet found a good hit for:
If you see red 'X' overlay icons on folders in your local git tree, on Windows, and there's NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO GET RID OF THEM, it's likely your git cache is corrupt and needs to be reset. Either restart your machine or kill the TGitCache.exe process. Then relaunch your Explorer window. Red 'X's should dissappear.
"You see the engineering team ascending because Steve is realizing that there is a need to execute on a vision and in order to do that you have to actually understand how software is built,” said Wes Miller, an analyst at the Kirkland, Washington-based research firm Directions on Microsoft. “It’s a whole other thing to be able to say, ‘I’ve been at Microsoft, I understand software, and what you are saying will or will not work.'"
It's a well known mantra that IT should align to the needs of the business. This is a given. But good product owners must also use their technical strength to let emerging innovation to shape the company's business.
In today's software world, much of this innovation is licensed freely in the open source community. If you're not paying attention or if your attitude is "not invented here", you'll be overrun in only a few short years.
In short, great product owners bridge the constantly shifting gap between tech state-of-the-art and the competitive business world. Ballmer deserves credit for recognizing this.
A friend of mine is working with scrum.org and was asking questions about product ownership. This got me thinking. So, I threw together this quick list of things that, I think, make a great Product Owner.
In the recent InfoQ article about free Test Driven Development classes in our new 'Gift Economy', there is a misguided notion that fundamental economics have somehow evolved to such an extent that scarcity isn't an economic driver any more:
I disagree. As I state in my comment to the article, I suspect the people pushing this gimmick do so more to attack capitalism as a whole than for any other reason.
Ultimately group success of any kind is determined by good people doing good work. Period. A good sponsor, designer, and developer can build great software, no matter what the process or team structure – should they care enough to do it.
We use ThoughtWork's (TW) products to manage development on our project, including Cruise. Cruise was often confused with CruiseControl - an entirely different thing.
After a good start with Cruise, TW has released a new version of it with a new look and a new name,'Go':
I think certain kinds of people - people who like to understand the depths of 'why' seek out tension. The tension drives them to resolve and normalize concepts. They do this because the act of resolving and normalizing is actually intellectually satisfying, in and of itself. They hope they never reach of the end of it.
I'll trust that it was well intended, but President Obama's letter to his followers this Thanksgiving completely omits any mention of the one thing that still holds our country together: God.
"We spend between 15% - 30% of our time
dealing with customer or support issues, so we have no concept of uninterrupted
development time."
I was told this in a recent email plea from a former developer-colleague-turned manager. He wanted suggestions on how to role out Scrum in a such a scenario.
To continue from an earlier post on the WACD methodology, here are some tips for keeping the pesky 'team' concept from eroding your development sovereignty.
I couldn't delete a set of files on an old Windows OS because "The file name is too long". After fruitless Google searching, I found the solution and so, posting here for posterity.
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