Organizing tasks

I have been looking for an app that could help me to organize all the tasks for the team, and finally I’m settled with tinyPM.
Kanbanpad was rejected because the management had some issue with our private data being stored on some fluffy cloud.

I really tried to like our Sharepoint installation and the custom designed app based on that, but it was as human-unfriendly as it could possibly be. Continue reading

New role

One month ago I changed job.

In the new firm I had to learn Java, and all the odds that come with it (I’m a C++ guy, but I don’t want to start a flame war here).

During the first week I discovered that I’ve landed in the land of confusion: vague requirements, non existent design, ingenious tricks in the source code, deployed software coming from unknown SVN revisions, plenty of bugs everywhere. An exorcist was needed to turn the situation around. Continue reading