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RE: Handling developers, "the zone" and other myths
Subject:RE: Handling developers, "the zone" and other myths From:"Earl Cooley" <shiva -at- io -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 27 May 2002 16:38:40 -0500
Bruce Byfield wrote:
> The following link:
>
> http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/04/157205&mode=nested&tid=98
>
> reviews a book that supports the notion about the importance of "the
> zone." Equally interesting are the comments from the techie crowd who
> read the site, which, with some exceptions, tend to question the whole
> idea of treating developers specially, as well as the idea of the zone.
Isn't The Zone some new-fangled kind of foldover pizza?
I was pleased to note that one of the comments at that link recommended
that there be a "Managing Programmers for Dummies" book. Finally, a
"Dummies" book idea that isn't absurd, instead of "Horrifically Complex
Technology #89793238461415926535 for Dummies". heh.
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e=sc^3 (shiva -at- io -dot- com) Earl Cooley III
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