Over the last year or two I have heard the phrase and idea of “T-Shirt Sized Estimates” come up more and more often in the software engineering/technology world, typically by people that I would think should never be allowed to talk about software estimation. To me it doesn’t seem to be much of a coincidence that...
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We were able to go to a team outing yesterday to see Alice in Wonderland (which was pretty cool of the company to do), and got to see the latest Tron Legacy trailer, which makes it look even cooler than I originally thought. Also shows more of the soundtrack from Daft Punk, which is sounding better and better with each additional...
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Currently I have this decal for my MacBook Pro, from Etsy, which I really like and get complimented on and asked about all the time. Plus it has a nice rebel feel to it. MAVERICK! But, this new decal, I’m thinking, blows it away. I’m no huge Iron Man fan, of either the movies or comics, but this is pretty damned awesome,...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=his-AgsWzGg Instead of taking the time to write my whole post about why the iPad sucks and I won’t be buying it, I could have merely waited a few hours for Hitler to explain it for me.
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Let me preface this by saying I have been waiting for a tablet, of some sort, to come out from Apple for years. I’ve used PC tablets (even while being strictly on Macs, other than VMs) in the past and loved them for being able to take notes in meetings, or create mindmaps with tools like MindManager with extreme ease and...
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At some point, if you’ve been in the technical industry (software engineering, architect, DBA, Flash, Web Dev, etc.) long enough, you’re bound to realize (if you already haven’t) that all too often what happens in an interview is in no way indicative of what real life was or is. That’s because most interviews...
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So another year has gone by, I haven’t posted as much as I’d like, though I have plenty of plans for a series of posts related to various things this year. But, to start it all off, I’m recapping the top music I’ve been listening to over the last year. Mainly for me, though perhaps one of you will find some...
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In the spirit of Occam’s Razor, and perhaps even more specifically Hanlon’s Razor, today during an impromptu meeting the term “Rhoades’ Razor” was coined. So here I give it to you, my eponymous law, for all posterity to use: The simplest answer is that you are an idiot. Much like the Hanlon principle...
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Josh Rhoades is a technology manager (the awesome kind) of Web Development, Software Engineering, and Flash Architecture teams, based in Los Angeles, California. He has lead multi-million dollar projects for Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, worked on theme park attractions like Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters and Toy Story Midway Mania!, snuck across borders, led multiple developments and launches of Disney.com, fought the law, looked into an abyss, kissed an eel, and rescued at least one damsel in distress. Read about what happened the next day »
