Throughout my career I've had the opportunity to work for a few shops that claimed to be 'Agile' but were really just using the term poorly and inflicting increasing amounts of stress on the developers by trying to manage a non-agile process/project in an agile manner.
14Jan/090
QT is going LGPL
Holy crap batman!!!
I saw on slashdot today that Nokia is going to be releaseing QT under the LGPL license starting with version 4.5 (site). Back in the day, when I was toying with leaving the web industry and going more into traditional software developement, QT caught my eye. The thing that stopped me from diving into QT at that time, was the $5000 license fee for anything non open source.
Now that it is being released as LGPL only, there are no more entry fees. Guess I will be looking at QT again 
7Jan/090
MySQL Dump Compatibility
At my current job I am constantly dumping mysql databases from a v5 server to import into a v3 server. In order for this to work, I have to dump the database in a mode that is compatible with version 3. Here is a quick reference for the compatibility modes available for mysqldump.
16Sep/086
Task Based Time Tracking
As a developer. it is very common to be required to report actual time spent working on a project or task. Sometimes the data is used for project planning, and sometimes your time is actually billed back to the customer. Over the last few years, I have used a variety of means of tracking time, some that made me cringe, and some that are almost a pleasure to use.
