Spotting A Good Rule Of Thumb
The usefulness of a rule of thumb is inversely proportional to its accuracy.
– A.R. Wadum
Estimating The Solvency Of Customers
Every consultant and small business person underestimates the client’s ability to pay.
– Steven Kropper
Buying Equipment
Don’t buy a new piece of equipment for your business unless it can pay for itself in three [...]
Looking For Interesting Books
To find the most interesting books in a library, look for the shelf where returned books are stored before they are reshelved.
– Andy Steinberg
Spotting A Good Book
You can tell a book by its cover. The nicer the cover, the better the publisher and the more experienced the author.
– Carolyn Lloyd
Estimating Lengths
Most books [...]
When creating your architecture you should explicitly use principles axioms and analogies to guide the creation. This gives the architecture a number of benefits that are not present if you simply create by implicitly leveraging your experience opinions and tastes.
Documenting your architecture will be easier. You can start by describing the principles that were followed. [...]
One of the problems of the fresh programmers today is that they get to hear a lot of contradictions, from equally credible people, on various topics in programming. One such controversial topic is use of GoF Design Patterns, especially the ones talked about in the book by GoF. This puts these programmers in a dilemma [...]
As an architect, it’s tempting to create elaborate designs and abstractions that elegantly address the problem at hand. It is even more tempting to sprinkle new technologies into the project. At the end of the day, someone has to implement your design, and the architectural acrobatics that you have the developers perform impact the project.
When [...]
As you work in requirements meetings to design software pretend that your customer is not your customer. It turns out that this is a very easy thing to do because it is true.
Your customer is not your customer. Your customer’s customer is your customer. If your customer’s customer wins your customer wins. Which means you [...]
Amrita singh started her career 1983 with sunny deol in fim ‘Betaab’. Both are always remarked as very good on screen pair. Amrita singh is Saif Ali Khan’s ex-wife. After her marriage she tried some negative roles in Aaina, Raju bangaya gentleman, Kalyug and Shootout at Lokhandwala.
Amrita singh is fluent in Hindi, English, and Punjabi [...]