Posts by Super Timmy

Why did your outsourced IT fall over? Cos you weren't on Twitter

Another excuse?

Am I the only person who think Gartner only write this to give managers an excuse to be on social media all day?

Why do I have this weird feeling that those managers are on social media all day for some other reason?

Apple sticks finger in dyke, cuts off Dutch flood of Galaxy S, SII, Ace

Focusing on lawsuits instead on quality...

Basically the judge meant that Apple products are just very overpriced POS, if they stopped Samsung only for a Gallery swiping patent.

But the larger problem is that Apple's management thinks it's more important to focus on this problem instead of on their own products or their own production problems. Maps is a nightmare, iphone5 is still hard to find. In the meantime, everyone else buy other brands instead of waiting for an Apple.

In the end, it all seems a Pyrrhic victory.

Software sucks these days - and just maybe it's all YOUR fault

Software Quality? Who cares?

First, let me state that, obviously, software should be of good quality. As an infrastructure person you should expect that. But let's be honest, who else cares about that?

The developers can try to do their best to make sure it works, but they don't have access to you incredibly complex production environment. Besides, they won't get any penalties because your environment can't handle their software anyway. You might tell a doctor what other medicines you're taking before they give you new (fully tested) medicine, but you won't tell the developer what other software you use.

The buyers (aka your boss) don't care if the software is good either; they just want it to be installed into your environment and to be able to work with them. Oh, will it crash your other applications? Doesn't matter to them. Oh, could you also support my new new shiny Somephone 5 as well?

Neither the buyers nor the sellers thinks the quality is important. If you want to change that, you could start by telling them. :)