Yet Another Offshoring Experience Tale
Posted on Wednesday, January 14th, 2004
E-Commerce Times: The Changing Face of Offshore Programming [via bBlog]
Decent article on how offshoring isn’t necessarily for everyone or everything. As with any new trend, process, or methodology, it only truly works when it’s applied [...]
More offshoring craziness
Posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2003
Wired News: The Case for Coolie Labor
Network Computing: How Offshore Outsourcing Failed Us
Another couple of stories about the pros and cons of IT offshoring.
In the Wired article, quoted company execs remain firm in their resolve [...]
Writing versus Know-how
Posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003
Scott on Writing: Technical Know-How is Important, but Not Paramount
More fuel for the ongoing Celebrity Tech Writer Death Match between “good writing” and “technical expertise,” this latest bid for the former comes from a technical [...]
Survival of the Clueless
Posted on Tuesday, March 4th, 2003
New Scientist: Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer
[via WebWord]
What with all the recent talk about car seats and the people who install them, I had to laugh when I came upon this article.
In [...]
Who’s fault is it, anyway?
Posted on Wednesday, January 1st, 2003
freshmeat.net: It’s Always the User’s Fault
Yeah, this article is a little moldy, but I think the main idea still has teeth. That is, I think the issue of “incompetence” among users and developers (and among [...]