The first snow has fallen, and so begins our inevitable slide into winter. Why does winter have to be so cold?
I haven’t been updating this or doing many projects recently, as work has occupied my life. Over the last month or two I’ve been prepping and shipping a 6-month-late, extremely buggy software release and cleaning up the ensuing mess. Unfortunately, I saw this coming a year ago, and continue to see danger ahead: our customer has retaliated by shortening our schedule for phase 2 from six to two months. Those whose managers have never read the Mythical Man Month are doomed to repeat it. Well, it’s about time to start taking off the month of vacation time that I’ve stowed away.