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Culture Development Reviews

Almost Perfect, the Book

The book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima Publishing in 1994. It is the story of the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation from my point of view.

It is already providing facinating reading. Hearing about the recession of the early 80’s and comparing it to the current one is rather theraputic.

Although I did not know it at the time, that $5 an hour part-time job would turn into a great opportunity. Somehow I had arrived at exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

Like some rare astrological phenomenon when all the planets are perfectly aligned, all the necessary events came together at just the right time, and a new and soon to be successful company was born.

It amazes me how much computers have changed in 20 years and how little the whole buisness aspect of computers and software has changed in 20 years.

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Culture Development Reviews

Almost Perfect, the Book

The book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima Publishing in 1994. It is the story of the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation from my point of view.

It is already providing facinating reading. Hearing about the recession of the early 80’s and comparing it to the current one is rather theraputic.

Although I did not know it at the time, that $5 an hour part-time job would turn into a great opportunity. Somehow I had arrived at exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

Like some rare astrological phenomenon when all the planets are perfectly aligned, all the necessary events came together at just the right time, and a new and soon to be successful company was born.

It amazes me how much computers have changed in 20 years and how little the whole buisness aspect of computers and software has changed in 20 years.

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RSS via Email

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Perl RSS

RSS via Email

FetchRss for RSS via Email.

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Development

Developer Advice from the Trenches

Little Nybbles of Development Wisdom

In this document, I have tried to remember and distill my hard-fought 3-year experience as I evolved into a programmer capable of building a commercial product, http://www.jguru.com . Naturally this is a not complete list of programming advice, but rather what I learned on this project.

Lots of good stuff in there, keep it simple, don’t trust anyone else and test to name a few.

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Development

Developer Advice from the Trenches

Little Nybbles of Development Wisdom

In this document, I have tried to remember and distill my hard-fought 3-year experience as I evolved into a programmer capable of building a commercial product, http://www.jguru.com . Naturally this is a not complete list of programming advice, but rather what I learned on this project.

Lots of good stuff in there, keep it simple, don’t trust anyone else and test to name a few.

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Perl Python Zope

Zope is to …

May have gleamed the significance of Zope to the Python community. It goes something like one of those tests in highschool:

Perl is to Python like CPAN is to Zope.

There is a similar connection between Java and the Apache Java community, but it doesn’t seem to be quite the ralling point as CPAN and Zope, and Java is just such a different beast.

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Perl Python Zope

Zope is to …

May have gleamed the significance of Zope to the Python community. It goes something like one of those tests in highschool:

Perl is to Python like CPAN is to Zope.

There is a similar connection between Java and the Apache Java community, but it doesn’t seem to be quite the ralling point as CPAN and Zope, and Java is just such a different beast.

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Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading: http://fozbaca.org and it already lead me to 8Bit Joystick and this great one What If Hollywood Made The Lord of the Rings which is oh so true.

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Humor RSS Site News

Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading: http://fozbaca.org and it already lead me to 8Bit Joystick and this great one What If Hollywood Made The Lord of the Rings which is oh so true.