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Well not really. Today I’m exploring what kinds of rants experienced programmers have when they start working with someone new. There are a few reasons to do this and none are intended to offend. The main reason is that there are a few problems common to most new work places which can be identified and explored. This will make our readers at least fore-warned, and possibly arm them with ways to mitigate frustrations both from the perspective of a new programmer and also from the perspective of a team leader bringing someone new into a project.

This being the last Thursday before Christmas, it’s time to slack off a little. So I’m writing about a program that does pretty diagrams of “mind maps” that you can play with on your last day at work. It’ll be fun and might even be productive.

I’ve added experimental support for polls

SSW is a consulting company who happen to offer a lot of free advice on their web site. The advice is worth a look.

This tutorial aims to teach you how to use the CVSTrac and Trac tools. I assume an administrator has already set one or both of them up for you and that you just need to get comfortable with the tools themselves. The tutorial should also be useful for people trying to decide whether to use one of these systems, but I do not cover how to set them up or administrate them.