I am a big fan of team development. I hate to sit in a cube all day banging away on my keyboard talking to myself. In my past projects where our development team was sequestered together are some of the best experiences I have had in my ca ...

It is not necessarily a technical issue but many technical projects sometimes suffer from a project team that is too large. It usually happens when management has decided on a delivery date that cannot be met with the current amount of manpower and for some reason it is more logical to them to add more developers than to move the date. Realistically there are valid times when a date cannot move, but merely adding more developers usually gets to a point of diminished return rather quickly.

 A good friend of mine was fond of saying “You can't get nine women and make a baby in a month.” Take the situation where y ...

The previous post was an accident and the current blog settings do not allow me to edit or delete previous entries, so here is the correct post:

We recently purchased the Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet PC at work for presentations. Our decision for this model was driven by the need for a beefy notebook that also had a tablet pc digitized screen. While a bit bulky for a Tablet PC, the M400 has above average power with a 1.83 GHz Intel Duo Core processor. We were going to bump the RAM from the standard 1 GB (for the M400-S4032 model) to 2 GB but the 1 GB is two 512 chips and purchasing only ordered one extra 1 GB chip so we settled for 1.5. This model also comes with a 100 GB hard drive which is ample room but only comes in 5400 RPMs. All together it is very powerful for a Tablet PC.

With our company image and the Toshiba OEM software we booted with an initial 450+ MB of a memory footprint. I immediately uninstalled as much as I could to get down to 325 which is abo ...