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5 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - Scars from the Dark Side · 0 replies · +1 points
5 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - Collaborative Software... · 0 replies · +1 points
Community Edition is downloadable. Just go to the community edition site (http://trisano.org/) to get it.
Feel free to join us in irc (freenode/trisano) if you have any questions about downloading/installing.
Thanks!
Dave
6 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - Collaborative Software... · 1 reply · +1 points
http://csinitiative.com/products/trisano/overview...
9 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - It's Better to Te... · 0 replies · +1 points
9 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - Twelve Months After th... · 0 replies · +1 points
That said, the pay is about the same. One major difference though - if we're successful there's a heck of a lot more upside than in IT. Conversely, failure is a lot rougher too.
9 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - Twelve Months After th... · 0 replies · +1 points
While this is perhaps not as detailed an analysis as you'd like, here are the differences that have been important to me:
1) I feel valuable to the company. I'm not treated like a cost center anymore - I think this is because I'm not. I'm directly tied to my company's revenue.
2) People listen to my recommendations. I don't always win, but when I lose it's because of what's best for the company, not because of what's politically expedient for my management chain.
3) I like my work. A lot of this is because of how important it is that we stay current. We're always close to the edge, and that is fun.
4) I don't have a lot of meetings. When we meet, it's because we have to, not because it's someone's mandate or best practice.
5) My leaders understand my job and actually grok the issues I face.
6) My leadership is under the same pressure to stay current in their responsibilities as I am and they do it.
7) We focus on execution and delivery.
8) We have simple, effective communication channels.
None of these things were true in any of the corporate IT work I've done.
Oh yeah, thought of one more:
9) We don't carry ANY dead weight. We are very careful who we hire and we don't keep low performers around.
Dave
14 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - Find Gimme Bugs by NOT... · 0 replies · +1 points
18 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - The Perversity of Test... · 0 replies · +1 points
I agree with your assertion that testing is good for the team, but I'm also acknowledging that finding bugs is fun, partly because sometimes the bugs you find embarrass your buddies.
18 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - Ten Best Practices for... · 0 replies · +1 points
I should have had something in the list about context trumping everything because I totally agree with you, but I didn't really intend anyone to take me seriously. I think everything on the list is a good tip under the right circumstances, but I was really just trying to poke fun at best practices by making ten of them up in less than two minutes.
20 weeks ago @ Information Technology... - The Perversity of Test... · 0 replies · +1 points
2) I like them both. It's fun to balance them out a bit. I do a lot of hobby-coding (trooptrack.com) and I like it too. But it doesn't have the guilty pleasures of attacking someone else's work product the way testing does.
3) Yup.
Thingamajig