Monthly Archives: August 2008
How to: Create MySQL User Accounts
I find myself having to do this quite often and I can never seem to remember so here it is: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘dshimy’@'%’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘pass’ WITH GRANT OPTION; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO … Continue reading
Quote of the day
“Better to ask for forgiveness than permission” – Various
Individual MBO for Engineers
There is plenty of information of what comprises a good goal (SMART). However, creating good goals for creative roles is something I’ve always struggled with. I’ve broken the goals down into 4 main categories. Professional Development Present one topic for … Continue reading
Grid Gain Misses the Mark
Grid Gain is a Java-based open-source computing grid. They have done an excellent job in making the developers tasks of working with computational grids simple. Their class-loader seems to do a lot of heavy lifting and with the examples I … Continue reading
Video Chatting with Distributed Teams
I always prefer face-to-face meetings to teleconference meetings. In preparation for out next Sprint Planning Meeting, we tried to establish a reliable, decent quality, and free video conferencing solution between a PC and a MAC. Here are the results from … Continue reading
The Location of the Done Board
We decided to put the “Done Board” in the hallway or other public location in the office to allow other teams and departments to get more exposure to the projects being worked on. This succeeded in getting more visibility, however, … Continue reading
Quote of the day
“Don’t confuse hours worked with dedication.” -Me
Sprint Task List and Burndown Chart Template
Here is a template I use for the Sprint Planning and Daily Stand Up Meetings. The initial estimates are entered on the first day and the sprint ends at the final stand up. Beyond that, everything is pretty self-explanatory. A … Continue reading
Commodity Hardware
I’ve seen this statement made hundreds of times: Google doesn’t invest in high-end hardware, rather they use the commodity hardware that you can find in a typical desktop PC. This spurred a debate with a collegue of mine, “what is … Continue reading
Quote of the day
“Measure the output, not the input.” -Me
