Don't infringe copyright of multinationals. Organisations such as the BSA take great delight in essentially extorting money from organisations large and small. With the complexity of Microsoft's license regime even companies that have no intent of infringing license terms may be in violation. This may result in overbuying of licenses to ensure compliance.
Coming to a YouTube near you is Avalanche Software Development, a short film detailing how you can move to this new and popular software development methodology.
Last Updated ( Friday, 12 June 2009 )
Guide to Hiring Developers
Written by Peter Harrison
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Some time ago now there was an article on Slashdot about how to find good developers. Here are the primary points of the article;
In order to prevent those of lesser intelligence from constantly annoying me with questions about how to achieve the same heights of software development prowess as myself I have prepared the following guide to how to become the ultimate software developer.
The first thing you must understand is that Uberg33ks are born not made. Yes; I'm afraid that you might not have the right stuff. Some might say that not having the right stuff to be a software developer is nothing to feel shame about. Those people would of course be those with the wrong stuff. Lets be clear, there are only 10 types of people in this world; those that understand binary and those that don't; users.
What are the objectives of code reviews? Are they simply a means to find defects or are there wider objectives. This video answers some of the questions about what Code Reviews can be used for and how they can be done.