If you’re a hardcore geek (and you probably are if you’re reading this) then chances are, there is a start-up swimming around in your brain somewhere. I know the feeling, I’ve got a few of them myself. If your start-up idea revolves around businesses and requires business information, you are probably aware that it’s […]

Miguel Carrasco has written an interesting entry on his blog with his list of what he considers the biggest computer flops of all time. Here’s his list in short:

The Xerox Alto
NeXT computer
IBM PCjr
Apple Newton
Apple 3
Apple Lisa
Microsoft Windows ME
Microsoft Bob
IBM OS/2
Gary Kildall’s CP/M

So in short:Apple flops - 3Microsoft flops - 2IBM flops - 2
Printer Ink […]

Watching movies, whether on the silverscreen or at your home-theatre, usually entails a suspension of disbelief. Particularly if the film were about something out of the ordinary, you would usually expect to be treated with no less than the best of eye candy–namely the visual effects. Sometimes we tend to take for granted the effort […]

I was chatting my with compatriot and fellow pro-blogger Abe yesterday near the end of the FNF Blogging and Podcasting workshop (for which we were both resource persons). Among the usual exchange of pleasantries like “How much did Google AdSense pay you last month?” and “So, what’s your latest project these days?” was the inevitable […]

Seems like the “in” thing to do now is to take a $1 salary from your business if you are the CEO or something. Google’s main men did it a long time ago, and everyone thought it was funny, but I bet they are living pretty large right now. Yahoo! has been buying everything with […]

Do you have the nagging sensation that the more things you accomplish, the more that work seems to creep up on the sidelines, waiting to be done? Do you feel like always ending up with even more work piled up in your to-do bin? Ah, the ironies. It’s probably like the Murphy’s law of productivity. […]

So much for roller hockey at the Googleplex!
Most would think that working at Google is every tech geek’s dream. Well, it’s probably just hype. Of course there are the excellent benefits and work set-up such as free gourmet lunches, Google stock, and being able to work on your pet projects 20% of the time. Still, […]

Entrepreneurs, independent software/web developers, artists, freelancers, and other creative-types have been enjoying some form of remote- or mobile working arrangements since time immemorial. But now, even corporate types are increasingly enjoying what’s called a “virtual office.”
A growing number of companies are taking this route, forgoing a stable office location—with its face-to-face interactions—for what some may […]

Greg writes on the perennial problem at the workplace named “interruptions.” According to our friendly usability expert, it is a programmer’s nemesis: one millisecond of interruption could disturb one’s “flow,” or nudge one out of his “zone.”
Programmers produce their best code when they are in a ‘zone’ (others call it the ‘flow’). During this stage, […]

Here’s a movie about Fog Creek Software’s first summer internship programme, Project Aardvark, held from May to August of last year: Aardvark’d
Four interns are brought into Manhattan and given 12 weeks to design, develop, debug and ship a program that will change the way computer geeks around the world fix their friends’ computers. Boondoggle Films […]

Three years ago, the concept of professional blogging was unheard of. Perhaps the concept of blogging for income or revenue was there, only that it was not mainstream enough to even merit a name.
Here, I share a story about a part of my life which is perhaps most interesting to my fellow geeks. I wouldn’t […]

An electrical engineer working for Cisco endures a 7-hour daily commute from his residence to Cisco’s headquarters and back.
With his family still sleeping, [Dave] Givens heads out the door at around 4:30 a.m. from a horse ranch at the edge of the astonishing Yosemite National Park. On a good day, he can make the 186-mile […]

Joel Spolsky posts a call for prospective summer interns on graphic and web design. Now Joel’s company is known for hiring only the best of the best (i.e. “No matter how long [average-skilled programmers] work, they never produce something as good as what the great programmers can produce.”). If you’re a student and you’re up […]

If you ask Scot Melland, it’s a good time to be a Linux professional. IT jobs across the board are picking up, but Melland, the CEO of Internet career site Dice, says Linux knowledge is a particularly hot commodity. Job postings on Dice for Linux professionals are multiplying at a much faster rate than any […]

According to an article on VNUNet.com, IT prospects for women are looking good. In fact it notes that women in IT are achieving higher pay raises than men across all sectors.

From the ACM TechNews Abstract:
The Chartered Management Institute’s (CMI) 30th annual national management salary survey indicates that salaries and opportunities for female IT professionals […]

The Microsoft IE team is hiring. Join up and make the world a better place for designers everywhere and become an instant hero/web celeb.