Comments for batteryslave http://www.batteryslave.com minor thoughts about gadgets, code, podcasts and other technical stuff... Fri, 15 May 2009 21:32:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on skillsmatter, london: day 3 by Michel http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/05/skillsmatter-london-day-3/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Michel Fri, 15 May 2009 21:32:36 +0000 http://www.batteryslave.com/?p=121#comment-383 What's wrong with your speaking skills? The panel wasn't that great. I won a book though, which I promptly gave away ;-) The beer drinking afterward was a blast though. What’s wrong with your speaking skills? The panel wasn’t that great. I won a book though, which I promptly gave away ;-)

The beer drinking afterward was a blast though.

]]> Comment on angry monkeys by technopholis http://www.batteryslave.com/2008/10/angry-monkeys/comment-page-1/#comment-382 technopholis Sat, 02 May 2009 01:49:04 +0000 http://www.batteryslave.com/?p=46#comment-382 When I hear this from the video on infoq.com, it immediately brought up in mind a certain for which I worked for. Not only, were the senior developers at that place fairly clueless about the most basic principles of software engineering, that any recent college graduate would take for granted, but they also had this knee-jerk reaction of badmouthing anything they didn't build in house. In the 2 years, I worked at this company, trying hard to bring about change, out of 6 developers, 2 left, not including myself. And funny thing is these two that left were the ones writing good code (i.e. not procedural garbage, especially in a java shop). Hence the phrase "an organization will always rise to its highest level of incompetency". When I hear this from the video on infoq.com, it immediately brought up in mind a certain for which I worked for. Not only, were the senior developers at that place fairly clueless about the most basic principles of software engineering, that any recent college graduate would take for granted, but they also had this knee-jerk reaction of badmouthing anything they didn’t build in house. In the 2 years, I worked at this company, trying hard to bring about change, out of 6 developers, 2 left, not including myself. And funny thing is these two that left were the ones writing good code (i.e. not procedural garbage, especially in a java shop).

Hence the phrase “an organization will always rise to its highest level of incompetency”.

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