In my opinion you need to separate things. Code comments serve a different purpose than technical specs and to make it "worse", they have different life-cycles. They can change separately without a strict need to one affect the other. So in your code comments you can eventually refer to a section in the technical spec, but attaching pieces of documentation directly to code would be a maintenance mess.

Just 2 things: 1st "I often see TDD is dead!" it's a good header if you want to get some pageviews 2nd TDD is not just writing tests...

An iPad is a very cheap prize but with a huge fan pool. OK, it might eventually be expensive for a single individual, but for a company it's peanuts. If to that you add a dumb game, the word will spread and chances are you'll mine a lot of emails :) It's never about the quality of the responses, is about the amount!! This is way cheaper than any other way to publicize something or just gather contacts.

That's the speed I usually do my shortest running path of 4Km that make it at an average speed between 10 and 11 km/h. So if I was set to run only 1.6km I could probably do it at 14km/h and stop :) But honestly I usually care much more about pace changes and actual overall running time than the speed itself. I know that if I'm in a better shape I'll go naturally faster without actually thinking about it. I usually run at the end of the day, always outside. So before starting I check myself. If I'm too tired or haven't eaten properly during the day I just skip it, otherwise I set a time or distance goal and run for it :) Just a word of advise based on my personal experience: 0. Regularly check yourself up. It's pretty dangerous to start or restart doing sports without at least a general check up. 1. If you're running to burn, 9 minutes won't do you almost anything. Your body won't have time to start burning the "extra" stuff. 2. If you can't run more time, walk. But walk fast (usually 6 or 7km/h) and resume running when you feel like it. Repeat this as many times as you want. Like this you'll be able to "run" at least 30 min without any big issues and if you keep doing it you'll start running more and walking less. I find 1h of activity to be the minimum for me. 3. Have at least 2 types of running. Don't run every day at the same speed in the same "track". Set time intervals where you'll run faster. A good practice I used at the beginning was 1.5 minutes normal and 30 seconds faster. The more you get in shape the bigger will be the gap between slow and fast paces. This depends heavily on your body, make sure your heart beats are back to "normal" before starting the next sprint. 4. Sleep and rest. This is as important as training. Do not do it every day. Listen to your body. 5. Do multiple sports. I'm an heavy guy, even when I'm in shape and if I run everyday my kneed and hips start complaining. Alternating running with biking and swimming does the trick :) Cheers!!!

Team of 1 is not a team... Working alone is just boring, one sided and leads to a one guy optimal solution... in most cases not optimal at all but there's no one there to challenge it anyway... Good for job security, at least while it lasts :)

Bigger teams require better management. And here in most cases is where everything fails. Most managers can't even manage themselves so nothing good can be expected out of there. If you have a good project and team manager you'll have more rules, better and well implemented code quality check tools and better and more automated processes. Overall a better structure to comply to, resulting on an implicitly enforced coding standards. For project management, the more monkeys you have the better you have to break tasks and plan dependencies. And always: - never build a team of geniuses or nothing ever will be finished - never build a team of freshly out of school people or nothing will ever work Always try to build an heterogeneous team with a couple of creative people not more, experienced people that deliver and fresh meat to just type text. Cheers! :)

"Plan your actions, and hardly anyone needs to merge classes anymore." Really? Mate, I don't know the size of your team, the type of project or how you designed your app but merges are neither a problem nor the only/main advantage of a source control solution. Not using any source control system, THAT's a PITA :)

Ok but: less moving parts == less moving mass less parts == lighter engine It might consume more but revs up much faster than a piston engine. Also, the time invested improving this type of engines is nothing compared to the time invested in piston engines. No further developments make sense now as we moved on to new techs but still it's an ingenious peace of mechanics :-D

This one is also a pretty good piece of engineering: Wankel_engine[^]

I kind of need to :) By need I mean that I really have the need for it, not because of any external "force". And yeah I have a daily life without computers. And yeah I sleep enough (6-7 h a day) and a lot more on weekends. And no, I don't loose any important time commuting to/from work. Working hours tend to be more of the same and usually after the projects initial fuss there's really nothing new to do. Outside working hours what I do is exactly that... do stuff will all those shinny new toys that pop up in full bags every day. In these side projects I do something I never do in a production serious client project, I use the latest most untested and shinny peace of technology I read on my daily news feeds :omg: What do I get from it? I know they exists, I know how to use them and I know (this is really important) when NOT to use them. What next? Most of those shinny new things tend to disappear in smoke but for those who resist and prove themselves I might have a use for them in the future... The thing is that if I never tested them I would never now!!! What's the alternative? Google for solutions and apply them blindly or with few PoCs and real practical experience. People tend to trust Google results a lot and that may come with a price... an expensive one. We're in a ever evolving and changing business. People tend to create things out of nothing or build some other out of the existing. It's essential for any serious professional to know what runs behind the scenes otherwise we're merely assembly poorly designed Lego castles... Cheers!

Cooooooollllll!!!! :) Can we add the Seek and Destroy sound track? :)

This is the main problem with ideas... :) When you think you had a great one there's always someone that comes and tells you it's already been done. :doh: Although, it's also true that a lot of good ideas only took off after someone else was able to dig a proper product out of them. Good luck!! :-D

So freaking true... :) Even this one that might go nowhere but it's already enough to make more people think about Amazon for the Christmas presents :omg:

I'm just imagining one of them falling and wrecking something (or someone)... It will turn good publicity into a media disaster.

Doesn't look like anything new to me... Was the same some years back when they announced the copy/paste on iPhone :laugh: One thing Windows could actually have natively is the multi-desktop and the independent toolbars but anyway, the multi-desktop can be achieved with many free and payed softwares and I use DisplayFusion for years now to properly manage the toolbars across my monitors. So... yet again... +200 shiny new things? :) I mean, I'm no Apple hater, and I currently use whatever lands in front of me, but we need to admit that one thing Apple always got better that anyone else was marketing! :)

A lot of them were inflated (a lot) and promoted to features just to allow that big fat +200 on top... :)

Didn't I read somewhere that Apple was doing a great scene about this upgrade being free? In my head popped up the idea that if it was so crappy and feature poor that they thought it would be better just to give it away and make a show out of it :)

You mean, to have no fun whatsoever, right? :-D

Curious (or not) I wonder if the votes where actually based on the option that actually resembles what could well be the ugliest person. Also, apparently this was to elect the mascot of an association that I really have no clue what may be used for... So, only good things in this world hun? :) I think the amount of useless things is directly proportional to the unemployment rate... :omg:

According to "the web" was Humphry Davy... :)