tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20463317Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:38:32 +0000http://www.xenokat.com/blog/screw/index.htmlTheo!Blogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20463317.post-116140494368648857Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:29:00 +00002006-10-27T14:07:36.933-07:00This supports the argument that when it comes to UA and Design, coders have no business doing either. A picture of a Wizard to say that it is a wizard -- you might as well use a picture of the wizard window its self.http://www.xenokat.com/blog/screw/2006/10/incompetent-until-proven-capable.htmlTheo!tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20463317.post-114660279772136169Tue, 02 May 2006 20:46:00 +00002006-10-21T01:12:44.400-07:00"The best way to deal with Dev is with common sense... written on the side of a baseball bat."http://www.xenokat.com/blog/screw/2006/05/quote-of-day.htmlTheo!tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20463317.post-115648705907365974Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:24:00 +00002006-08-24T23:24:19.106-07:00When the local 7-11 is advertising its daily specials on 12 packs of Jolt cola and flash drives, you know you are in a dense geek populationhttp://www.xenokat.com/blog/screw/2006/08/welcome-to-geektown.htmlTheo!tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20463317.post-113998851616388472Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:28:00 +00002006-04-20T19:06:45.473-07:00Drunk Monkey Spec (document) -- A spec or document that is so badly thought out and written that the only reason anyone could think of why it exists is that a Drunk Monkey(s) must have written it.Drunk Monkey specs (documents) are most commonly found in military and/or government documentation (but can be found in Dev and IT documentation also), where they try to explain a complicated http://www.xenokat.com/blog/screw/2006/02/new-terminology.htmlTheo!tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20463317.post-114002631064160468Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:52:00 +00002006-04-20T18:42:14.336-07:00Congenital Design Defect -- A situation where a design is lifted from another design solution that already had minor flaws and applied to the current project which is dissimilar to the original solution in the hope that if that solution work for "them" then it should work for "us." And again, utterly fails.http://www.xenokat.com/blog/screw/2006/02/new-terminology_114002631064160468.htmlTheo!tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20463317.post-113953801434377355Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:20:00 +00002006-02-09T18:20:14.356-08:00I have begun to notice that the design field is similar to shooting a game of Craps. Of course instead of shooting "snake-eyes," one would get "Ramen." And not the good kind, the cheap-ass stuff you buy by the palette at Costco.http://www.xenokat.com/blog/screw/2006/02/crap-shoot.htmlTheo!tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20463317.post-113644407626683175Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:54:00 +00002006-02-09T10:48:43.633-08:00That a company culture can become so interbred that the only way to get a job is to all ready know someone who works there. But because of this, there is little diversity in the corporate gene pool. Just think of the British Royal Family back in the day — yeah, they ruled over one of the most powerful empires of its time, but half of them were hemophiliacs. There is a running joke that floats http://www.xenokat.com/blog/screw/2006/01/its-just-amazing.htmlTheo!tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20463317.post-113688726285064913Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:01:00 +00002006-01-10T02:01:02.860-08:00You can tell a lot about who a person is and how they view the world by the way they solve problems they are given. There was an e-mail from a globaliazation manager today asking about how to take a screen shot of a drop down menu in a window. There were a couple of solutions to this question. From a Senior App Developer it was a home brew app built in VC 6.0. A Lead Program Manager suggested a http://www.xenokat.com/blog/screw/2006/01/its-screen-shot-not-brain-surgery.htmlTheo!