Programmer Personality Test

From: http://www.doolwind.com/index.php?page=11
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You’re a Planner.
You may be slow, but you’ll usually find the best solution. If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.

You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There’s no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a Conservative programmer.
The less code you write, the less chance there is of it containing a bug. You write short and to the point code that gets the job done efficiently.

Time management

Just came back from Pelita’s leader meeting, we read and discuss the article below:

http://www.matthiasmedia.com.au/briefing/webextra/dec03_time.htm

Mergers and Acquisitions

The activity of mergers and acquisitions (M & A) is often said to be the sign of a last stage of the bull market. It certainly has been crazy this year, I have lost track how many acquisition rumours on the market.

I can only remember the following: Rinker (to be acquired by Cemex), Coles (not sure whether the KKR acquisition is still going on), Symbion Health (considered to be taken over by Healthscope), Qantas (which is the current hot news), Alinta (Babcock and Brown will be fighting it out with Macquarie Bank). I’m pretty sure there are a lot more there.

Macquarie bank seems to be quite active in pursuing M & A, with being involved in Alinta and Qantas acquisitions.

Should we be cautious now? M & A activities are not necessarily a good thing for the economic in whole (at least that’s what I read from Lee Iacocca’s Straight Talk).

Resign

I arrived at work today and checked my email, I was shocked to find out that our tech manager has resigned. Apparently he decided that he couldn’t no longer tolerate late payments. I think we are about 2 weeks behind now, which I personally think it’s not too bad, my previous employer didn’t pay me for a lot longer. Plus our boss is actually open about the financial situation and stuffs.

When someone who holds important role in the company resigned, it always makes me re-think my own position. Tech leader is going to leave the company as well on June/July, that would leave the company with no senior tech people, I would be the 2nd most experienced developer on the company by that time… I am ok with design and implementation of small scale web applications, but when it comes to designing multi server applications, I don’t think I’m up for the task yet.

Would I be forced to resign too, I wonder.. I plan to stay here at least one year, since there are a lot of things that I can learn, but I also don’t know whether I will always be ok with late payments (not that I think that this will be an ongoing problem). I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.