When I recently stumbled across the (already old) Stuxnet article on Wired I was just amazed. This article describes how the Stuxnet worm was discovered and disassembled, the target it tried to attack and it shows how advanced this work is. The article reads like a novel from Dan Brown and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the latest news about the cyberwar….
wired.com: How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
…have you ever noticed that you can assign one job to one person, and they’ll do a great job, but if you assign two jobs to that person, they won’t really get anything done? They’ll either do one job well and neglect the other, or they’ll do both jobs so slowly you feel like slugs have more zip. That’s because programming tasks take so long to task switch.
Yeah, that’s how it is. An old posting but still true – programmers are less productive if they have to constantly switch between tasks that are all super-mega-important for management. In fact each developer should only worry about the task at hand right now and leave it up to the project manager to decide upon the next task.
The full article from Joel is worth reading.
Apple seems to have “lost” another iPhone prototype in a bar… now they want it back – they even produced an advertisement… 
Life is short, break the rules,
forgive quickly, kiss slowly,
love truly, laugh uncontrollably,
and never regret anything that made you smile.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.~ Mark Twain ~
Just a short posting to mention that I got selected to participate in the IBM Corporate Service Corps… more blog postings in #ibmcsc will follow soon!
Fish don’t know they’re in water.
If you tried to explain it, they’d say, “Water? What’s water?”
They’re so surrounded by it, that it’s impossible to see.
They can’t see it until they get outside of it.
Most times we are in water too – we just don’t see what is outside…. be it a different culture, different company or just a different opinion… so make sure to notice that you are in water!
In the mining model of software companies, the charismatic, flighty founders and their investors stand to make a lot of money. Their workers, their customers, and their secondary investors all get boned, because these companies and their products tend to suck.
So true…
The people who really change the world are farmers.
Unfortunately mining seems to be very popular these days….
Finally even Microsoft started working on phasing out Internet Explorer 6. They are pretty serious to drop the worldwide usage below 1%:
10 years ago a browser was born.
Its name was Internet Explorer 6.
Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye.
I love that initiative and hope the number drops pretty fast from 12% right now to 1%… would save us Web developers so much hassles… So go and upgrade or and check out http://www.ie6countdown.com/.
Dance like nobody’s watching;
love like you’ve never been hurt.
Sing like nobody’s listening;
live like it’s heaven on earth.
