TJ Crawford's Abstract Ideas

Great post on Coderoom that one of our developers sent out.

From a Product Manager standpoint however there are so many insights and truths in here that it's a worth while read. For instance, how many times have you heard one of your developers say "We can't do that because it's too labor intensive on the (blah) system". Well the people who matter most don't care.  I'm not saying you shouldn't listen and performance bottlenecks definitely have to be considered. Just realize your users don't give ANY thought to if your DB has to work a little harder or your network's bandwidth needs to double.  They just want to get their work done faster or better. That's what they pay you good money for.

7 Reasons To Hate Your Code

I bought an iPad a few weeks back and noticed that even Apple has to release products before they are fully baked. The iPad works great but my iTunes to Apple TV synch is totally hosed. After much looking around the web I found a post on the apple support forums. The post was made by another Apple TV user that had called in and talked to support for a while. The outcome was that Apple had to rush out several software updates to support the iPad and the Bonjour service (windows version) didn't get done in time. Unfortunately this means I can't synch my AppleTV or share music on my home network until they come out with an update.

I'm not tremendously upset about this and frankly it's nice to see such a successful products company having the same issues as the rest of us.