Today’s been characterized by meetings. Both times I sat there quiet for about an hour while everyone else did the talking. What’s worse was that managers declared the 2 meetings to be “successful”. Perhaps this is some definition of success I previously wasnt aware of? I mean, I have goals set for the week and that meeting only took time away from the moments at my disposal for solving software challenges. I often wonder why people dont use blogs internally in companies to remove the need for a meeting. You know - write a status report and blog it, then, read the blogs of your other team members. If (like me) you’re writing Internet Applications anyhow it would be a walk in the proverbial recreation centre to link tot he latest milestone of the project too.
Fred (CTO for the company) wants to set up a “programmer’s playground”. That is, a set of old machines in a secluded section of the office for out-of-hours experimentation. It would be an ideal place to create a blog server and possibly even an internal slash style news site. Its strange: nobody at all has implemented a UBB message board or a slash news site using J2EE technologies! Someone needs to do that and release them under the BSD license!