Just reading Dries’ rant about Hiring Drupal Coders and can fully agree with him.

From my experience I haven’t found a single student on the austrian universities coding Drupal. Reason for search students was for a part-time assignment PLUS the expectation that younger people would tend to do more “web based stuff”

Announcement – you can read my mini-course about the basics of project management in my project management blog

What would YOU ask the Google Engineers if you met up for a beer with them?

Drupal ad’hoc bugfix wrapup in San Francisco – anyone in Vienna, Austria?

New survery on influence of weblogs on knowledge work

The Financial Services Office of the University of Arizona has a fine definition of professional two-way communication … posted first in their Values Of course this is about creating a culture of effective listening, conveying and receiving ideas, information and…

Google recruiting via weblogs…

Goal Setting and Task Performance Model

Joyce Trout Fired From Friendster

We need to move from seeing our Web sites as a series of projects to managing them as a well-planned process. The quality of search on many Web sites is awful. Most organizations would simply not countenance having their reception…

Do you already have an “Extreme Culture” in your XP project? Do you lead an XP project? Do you know everything about the XP process? Are you aware about the need for the “extreme culture” in your project? Culture is…

On May 1, 2004, Oracle announced plans to retire the Oracle8i Database Administrator Certified Professional exams. As of December 31, 2004, the core certification exams for the Oracle8i DBA OCP track will no longer be available. Oracle will continue to…

maleProgramming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? Try to work out which of the following spent their time hacking computers and which prerefferd hacking away at corpses instead… Definately a funny but interesting…

Just came across XGD: Extreme Programming for Game Developers were Chromatic writes about Project Manager Thomas Demachy who explains Extreme Game Development, a variant of XP. Check out the full article at Gamasutra (require free user subscription)....

How true this is … the "can-do" attitude together with the "real programmers"-attitude is probably one of the issues causing troubles in some projects, don't you agree? I think both are very high-risk positions, especially if your customer's have similar…