March DDJ

Why was the March issue of Doctor Dobb's Journal so thin?

I'm disappointed.

On gathering requirements

This Dilbert cartoon summed up the critical problem with so many projects.

SmartDraw for diagrams

I often need to draw diagrams, and while napkin and whiteboard scribbles are best, sometimes it's necessary to produce something more professional looking, or at least more editable.

And so my latest favorite tool is SmartDraw, which I find more usable than Visio.

Are you making a good first impression?

What impression does your website give in the first 50 milliseconds ?

Is the computing profession hurting you?

Is your computing profession hurting you?

How to keep your job

How to Keep your Job, the most interesting read I've had so far this year, professionally. This relates to the excellent advice a friend of mine once gave me: keep reading code. Read code every day.

Would you like to be a Senior Instructional Technologist?

Maybe you'd like to be a Senior Instructional Technologist at Yale University .