there are two interesting news: amd - this company is making the game exciting again - bundling with cray to build the next-generation supercomputer. the deal is part of phase three of darpa's hpcs program.

and than there is ibm and freescale,

announcing that PC processor technology has become boring and is a dead end. (tr)

and agile, you should read a gamer's notice of development and design processes. (via james shore; [as it seems this community collects people with the same or nearly the same name, there is a jim shore too, who wrote fail fast])

i still hear scott ambler saying: ¡give me my whiteboard back! model driven architecture is not for everyone, these mba guys try to sell you uml as a standard, ¡it's not! and his doubts that programmers are visual thinkers:

There is an underlying assumption in traditional software engineering that we are visual thinkers as a general populus. now that is true among people in general, like 80, 90% of people lean towards visual thinking, but in the it-community I don't think it is so true. not_visual (audio/mpeg, 534 KB)

there is no proof yet. game developers are maybe different, at least they are fast, if you follow this report on pair programming, workspace, in short xp, or in meta: agile programming.

don't forget to collect your bonus by clicking/going there. where they all nest.

there are official eu events taking place, nobody wants to be responsible for. one pointed it out to me, seven others were surprised: what is it? no, we don't have anything to do with that. it's not a big event anyway. 'helpful' ones constantly feed me with new names and numbers. wondering how long it will take to find the right person. the topic: global challenge, indeed.

what's more important then an answer is the use of the title. the familyname alone does it somehow, but it seems to hurt the concierge, if you don't state it with decoration. i have completely forgotten this tradition of, well, call it 'hausmeister der nation'.