Just want to say I don’t like it. Totally yet another wheel. We’ve already have IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc… Firefox is an open source browser, which is really good. And others are also good.So Chrome, is just yet another open source browser, the only specific thing is from google.

And I see it’s using ICU to handle unicode. And the inspector codes are totally from Safari! I’m not allowed to read its codes when in office, but I’m not really very interested to read it when at home…

http://www.0926.net/babyblog/ :D

I like this feature, sweety!

Naturally, we will assign tasks to team member and mark as owner. We will give a good naming of this action: Resource management. Within traditional project management, one of the things we most focus on is the resource management and tracing. Yes, I agree. The resource is really important, and we definitely should concern the ROI. But we need to consider the granularity of resource. Otherwise, we will be lost. Although you know every resource usage, that doesn’t mean you ship your feature in time. And if you focus on resource management too much, believe me, it’s easy to be failed in software development. Because you would be easily ignore “Technical Debt”, “Team Building”, “Delivery”, although you still have good reasons to business and management team in that time. So what? Reasons and reports do not mean working software.

Scrum, is the agile methodology I experienced most. It defines three roles, PO, Scrum Master, Scrum Team. And actually the three roles are one, because if one fails, then all 3 roles fail. The self-managing Scrum team is always the goal we fight for.

That’s why we always emphasize team rather than individual team member in Scrum. So “No Personal Backlog”! Personal backlog is good for management team to know every resource’s status. But it’s too bad for the team! Member will say, “At least I finished my items.” Yes, you had a bad member, and you lost a potential good team.

And that’s why I do not like some commercial/free Scrum project management software. Because it does do the personal backlog.

From Henrik Kniberg’s slides on Agile Conf 2008, you also can consider following list as bad practices to team:
• Fixed roles
• Personal backlogs
• Not helping each other
• Personal incentive models
• Implementing all stories in parallell
• Management interference

Anyway, I believe good management team will focus on “Delivery”, “Quality”, “Team/Assets” rather than focusing on resource management too much. ROI always the first rule to business, but it is not short term!

曾经推荐过这本书，然后现在有了中文版。http://www.infoq.com/cn/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches

非常值得阅读.

TrueCrypt很强很好用。

如果会有许多confidential的东西要保存，那么就需要TrueCrypt这样的工具了。就像Paul的comment: Everyone should have all their key information on an encrypted USB key that is on your person. 使用非常简单，无论是虚拟的还是usb的，甚至整个分区或硬盘，速度也不错。

不过就是要小心记得密码，否则就和你丢了文件一样效果。

典型的黄梅天的上海，今天。淅淅沥沥的下着些许小雨。阴阴的天使万物都感觉在沉思些什么。我也难免，甚至差点追尾一运钞车。

今天，Bill Gates，在某种意义上来说将真正离开Microsoft。在这个时刻我却有幸将成为这个公司真正员工。有种莫名的失落，不过anyway，这还是很值得高兴的事，对我来说。毕业好多年了，不过目标依旧：To be a good developer。

下面的照片相当有趣：

1978

2008

Looking back and moving forward: mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/presspass/06-27-08Transition_Anthem_MBR.wmv

看来我也许有点那么out of date……一个月后才发现它原来已经在MSDN上了。绝对好的工具。

Get it: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sourceanalysis

Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/ (StyleCop Group里的人遍布全球)