The Dr. Delivers
Dec 30, 2008 Random
Got this in the mail yesterday. Thank you Dr. Pepper and Guns N’ Roses!
Behind Schedule
Dec 22, 2008 Code
There are a few different methods for estimating the time to complete a software project. Boiled down, they all basically mean the same thing: your project is going to take longer than you think it will, so you’d better over-estimate.
The method that seems to apply the best to my projects is to come up with a realistic estimate of how long you think it will take, without being optimistic or overly pessimistic, and then double it.
With that being said, I am way behind schedule. I didn’t exactly follow this method when I set my goal to have my project finished by Thanksgiving. I was purely optimistic and didn’t double. This last month has been so busy that I haven’t even touched my project since before Thanksgiving. Luckily, this is just a personal project and I don’t have an angry client breathing down my neck.
The New Look
Dec 1, 2008 Site News
I decided that it was finally time to get serious. I had been letting it slide up until now because traffic to this site was pretty non-existent. But I’ve got some things in the works and didn’t really want to risk the world wide embarrassment of having my traffic surge to 2 or 3 visitors a day while not even bothering to change the look of this site from the default. Thanks to sixrevisions.com for compiling a big list of great free WordPress themes for me to wade through. And a special thanks to blogohblog.com, not only for offering this theme for free, but for being considerate enough to also include the Photoshop .psd file needed to recreate the site logo.
Now I’ve got to re-think how I’m using categories and tags so the site is more intuitive. Which, unfortunately, will require me to go through all of my older posts and recategorize and add tags. Fortunately, I think there are only 7 old posts thanks to my previous cleaning. Woot!