Field Guide to Programmers

One of the great joys of running your own server is dealing with spam and spam-related issues. Among the ads for potent products and invites from lonely people, you might find bounceback messages that appear to originate from your own email address but are clearly not from you. This is called email spoofing [...]

Kevin Kelly’s Technium has turned out some great articles of late. His latest tidbit is a little question about the computerization of, well, everything.
Turing’d:

We have this long list of tasks and occupations that we humans believe only humans can do. Used to be things like using tools, language, painting, playing chess. Now, one by [...]

If you’re a programmer, you might want to put in some time with books like Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres and Competing on Analytics by Tom Davenport.
Why?
Here’s something for you to think about…
In 10 Years, Marketing Will Be Taught In Engineering School:
Technology is removing all friction from the marketplace. Marketing will really be about figuring [...]

Reginald Braithwaite posted a funny take on the old saw about managers taking over doomed projects. Definitely worth the read, especially if you are stuck in a project death spiral and desperately need a laugh.
That said, I thought his additional commentary at the end was particularly insightful (see below)…
Billy Martin’s Technique for Managing his [...]

For those of you banging your head on why it is difficult to get needed IT expenditures approved, Paul Keeble offers the following, highly-accurate, explanation:
In corporations Open source is thriving, and not because its the strategy:
In large corporations if you need to buy a tool for development, especially one no one has used before good [...]