Binzy Wu

一些电视或者电影

Binzy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:14:59 +0800

Jasmin胎情不稳，所以上周4开始休息在家，为了打发无聊，于是就陪着她看了一些片子。为了看片子，还坑出了积满灰尘的PSP。感谢一个叫WisMencoder的软件，转换的速度挺快的。

“Grey’s Anatomy Season 5″
新的Season又开始了，故事在Grace Hospital继续。第5季了，不得不承认这些脸我都看得有些厌烦。编剧似乎在求变，于是一个Change的主题上演。安于现状是得不到第一的，所以危机感事必须的，Continuous Improving也是必需的。
但是无论如何，老面孔还是很多熟悉的感觉。ABC的片子，估计可能还是会有第6季。

“Gossip Girl Season 2″
不得不说，这个片子到第2季我就厌烦了。。。不过Jasmin倒是挺喜欢Chunk，用这名字做了怪物猎人的名字。难道纽约上东区的social真这么无聊无趣？

“WALL· E”
典型的Pixar风格。I love it! What a damn good movie!

“Made of Honor”
完全是因为”Grey’s Anatomy’里的Derek才看的。不过这样的电影总是让人开怀一笑，Jasmin都在要求一起去纽约街头吃bagel，虽然略显空洞和老套，特别是决斗那会，像极了”Beta House”…

“The Incredible Hulk”
呼，终于放完了。。。

Windows Live Wave 3 Beta

Binzy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:51:59 +0800

微软于日前正式提供了Windows Live Wave 3 Beta的套件的下载站点。http://download.live.com. 包括:

Live Call
Live Mail
Live Messenger
Live Movie Maker
Live Photo Gallery
Live Write

关于新特性和变化, 建议上 http://livesino.net/ 和 http://www.liveside.net/ 获得更多信息.

Technorati Tags: windows,live,wave3

9.19

Binzy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:38:02 +0800

Remember the day which is pretty black! But I believe the “white” day will come in future!

I don’t like Chrome

Binzy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:07:53 +0800

Just want to say I don’t like it. Totally yet another wheel. We’ve already have IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc… Firefox is an open source browser, which is really good. And others are also good.So Chrome, is just yet another open source browser, the only specific thing is from google.

And I see it’s using ICU to handle unicode. And the inspector codes are totally from Safari! I’m not allowed to read its codes when in office, but I’m not really very interested to read it when at home…

小牛日记

Binzy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:17:39 +0800

http://www.0926.net/babyblog/ :D

Xml Schema Explorer of VS 2008 sp1

Binzy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:22:23 +0800

I like this feature, sweety!

No Personal Backlog!

Binzy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:35:35 +0800

Naturally, we will assign tasks to team member and mark as owner. We will give a good naming of this action: Resource management. Within traditional project management, one of the things we most focus on is the resource management and tracing. Yes, I agree. The resource is really important, and we definitely should concern the ROI. But we need to consider the granularity of resource. Otherwise, we will be lost. Although you know every resource usage, that doesn’t mean you ship your feature in time. And if you focus on resource management too much, believe me, it’s easy to be failed in software development. Because you would be easily ignore “Technical Debt”, “Team Building”, “Delivery”, although you still have good reasons to business and management team in that time. So what? Reasons and reports do not mean working software.

Scrum, is the agile methodology I experienced most. It defines three roles, PO, Scrum Master, Scrum Team. And actually the three roles are one, because if one fails, then all 3 roles fail. The self-managing Scrum team is always the goal we fight for.

That’s why we always emphasize team rather than individual team member in Scrum. So “No Personal Backlog”! Personal backlog is good for management team to know every resource’s status. But it’s too bad for the team! Member will say, “At least I finished my items.” Yes, you had a bad member, and you lost a potential good team.

And that’s why I do not like some commercial/free Scrum project management software. Because it does do the personal backlog.

From Henrik Kniberg’s slides on Agile Conf 2008, you also can consider following list as bad practices to team:
• Fixed roles
• Personal backlogs
• Not helping each other
• Personal incentive models
• Implementing all stories in parallell
• Management interference

Anyway, I believe good management team will focus on “Delivery”, “Quality”, “Team/Assets” rather than focusing on resource management too much. ROI always the first rule to business, but it is not short term!

推荐: Scrum XP from the Trenches (Chinese Version)

Binzy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:22:46 +0800

曾经推荐过这本书，然后现在有了中文版。http://www.infoq.com/cn/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches

非常值得阅读.

人人都TrueCrypt

Binzy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:17:48 +0800

TrueCrypt很强很好用。

如果会有许多confidential的东西要保存，那么就需要TrueCrypt这样的工具了。就像Paul的comment: Everyone should have all their key information on an encrypted USB key that is on your person. 使用非常简单，无论是虚拟的还是usb的，甚至整个分区或硬盘，速度也不错。

不过就是要小心记得密码，否则就和你丢了文件一样效果。

写在2008年6月27日

Binzy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:49:57 +0800

典型的黄梅天的上海，今天。淅淅沥沥的下着些许小雨。阴阴的天使万物都感觉在沉思些什么。我也难免，甚至差点追尾一运钞车。

今天，Bill Gates，在某种意义上来说将真正离开Microsoft。在这个时刻我却有幸将成为这个公司真正员工。有种莫名的失落，不过anyway，这还是很值得高兴的事，对我来说。毕业好多年了，不过目标依旧：To be a good developer。

下面的照片相当有趣：

1978

2008

Looking back and moving forward: mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/presspass/06-27-08Transition_Anthem_MBR.wmv