Book Excerpts and Magazine Articles
Here we have a number of articles from magazines and newspapers and
excerpts from books. Some have to do with politics, some have to
do with personal freedoms, and some have to do with management
philosophy. Hopefully you'll see a trend here.
- Contraintuitive.
Article from Wired
- Another year of hate speech
from the left.
Article from The Boston
Globe
- Evolving a New Theory of
Project Success.
Article from Communications
of the ACM, November, 1999. (PDF, 76.0k)
- Indecision is a project
killer, but you can beat the beast.
Article from Network
World, May 12, 1997.
- Loyalty in the workplace:
Is it becoming extinct?
Article from Network
World, June 23, 1997.
- Making Welfare Safe For Families
Excerpt from
Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny,
by Alan Keyes.
- No baby-sitting: For
best results, treat your employees as adults.
Article from
InfoWorld, April 15,
1996
- Nothing Becomes a Man More
Than a Woman's Face
. Article from from
The New York Times, August 31, 1998.
- Professionals are struggling to
tread water in a sea of e-mail
Column from The
Philadelphia Inquirer, July 27, 1997.
- Sad, but true
Excerpt from
Software Requirements & Specifications: a lexicon of practice,
principles, and prejudices, by Michael Jackson.
- Shepherding complex projects
is hard work, but the payoff is success.
Article from InfoWorld,
May 20, 1996
- Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, The.
Essay from The Whole
Earth Review, Fall 1991 (no longer online)
- Studies Find Reward Often
No Motivator.
Article from The Boston
Globe, January 19, 1987
- Take the 'big' out of big
projects: Break them into manageable chunks.
Article from
InfoWorld, May 13, 1996
- Taking the high road on their
constituents?
Article from
The Washington Times,
December 15, 1996
- To see the value of your
employees, look beyond the numbers
Article from
InfoWorld, April 22, 1996
Technical crap
- A Lesson in Outer Joins (Learned
the Hard Way!)
Article from
Teradata Review, Spring 1998.
- Classic Mistakes Enumerated.
Excerpt from
Software Project Survival Guide, by Steve McConnell.
- Electropolis: Communication
and Community on Internet Relay Chat
- IBM Data Access Beans - A Tutorial
A good overview of Java Bean for performing queries.
- The infamous Microsoft "Halloween" memos:
Halloween I
Halloween II
-
Internet Architecture
Article from
Boardwatch Magazine, 1997. The
original text
of this article may still be available.
- New Year's resolutions for IT
Article from ZDNet, January 5, 1999.
- OS Wars
Article from
OS/2 e-Zine, Vol. 3, Number 2.
- RFC #1459 - Internet Relay Chat Protocol
See also Internet Relay Chat Client To Client
Protocol (CTCP).
- Satisfying Customers With Color, Shape, and Type
Article from Web Techniques,
November 1999.
- Script Junkie:
Simplified Order Processing with Apache's mod_qs2ssi
Article from Web
Techniques, January 2000.
- SCRUM Development Process
- The Trouble With Java
Article from
Internet World, Vol. 8, Number 11.
- What is FUD?
Essay by
Roger Irwin
Dated but possibly historically interesting news