With the release of Google’s Chrome browser, one question comes to mind: How is this kind of performance possible? With browsers now being a 15-year old technology, how is it that a newcomer to the game can radically change the performance of a browser by nearly doubling the normal performance? Google’s achievement with Chrome is [...]
I was one of the few that actually liked the Seinfeld/Gates ads and when they announced they are canceling the Seinfeld ads in favor of a more direct approach this morning, I was thinking to myself, “oh no! this can’t be good.” But the new ads are actually very good. I’m impressed! Here they are: Microsoft’s new [...]
A while back, Dan Suceava (head of Axosoft’s software development efforts) and I decided to embark on a mad-man-weekend-project. The crazy idea was for us to see if we could develop a simple web-based service that allowed a user to send large files (as big as 1GB) to another user without the use of FTP. [...]
In every software development team, inevitably, there are a number of documents that spring up to help manage various project information. They often include documents like: Project Overview and Goals Project Risks and Concerns High-level Design Overview Coding Guidelines Team Directory and on and on… And virtually every team I’ve seen stores these documents in [...]
I recently ran across Jeff Sutherland’s blog article, titled Maxwell’s Curve Getting More Production. In this article Jeff refers to the Maxwell Curve, a concept created by OpenView Venture Partner’s founding partner Scott Maxwell about how team productivity actually decreases as teams work longer hours in a given week (see the graph to the right). [...]