Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Tips for Women Executives and Managers

    I don’t think these apply just to women. The advice about going to lunch has probably helped 60% of my relationship building with people in various departments in new jobs. Lunch in an informal setting is where you truly get to connect with your co-workers and understand and learn who they are. This strengthens your ability to work as a team.

    ALWAYS do this with the IT Administrators as soon as possible; you want them on your side at all times, period.

    I disagree with the work less part at the bottom, though; their obviously not talking about anyone involved in technology. I personally cannot learn fast enough to even remotely keep up with the industry.

    Anyway, good advice for males here too, and helps to get an understanding of a woman’s perspective about her role in the workplace.

    Tips for Women Executives and Managers

    Via her majesty.

  • Code SWF RIA’s via C#, SVG-XUL’esque markup, and Command Line Compile

    Uh… yeah… I’ll let you go to the link and do the obligatory, “Holy shit…”.

    I learned a lot reading Robin’s book on OOP; most of my understanding how to meld OOP concepts with Flash was by reading his stuff in combination with Moock’s 1st AS book; I really dig Robin’s writing style… I guess I now dig his software product style as well!

    …unfortunately, I took his survey for the product in my “I hate Flex” stage (I’m way over that now, Flex r0X0r$), so I obviously didn’t rank amongst the masses when I answered “I have no use for a SWF that is compiled from XML markup, coded in C# in Visual Studio”. I guess that’s a good thing he ignored me, eh?

    >>>Xamlon Flash Beta Released<<<

  • Evil Dead vs. The Ballet

    Next time I tick her majesty off, I’ll buy tickets to this. Suddenly I’m actually caring about a musical; it sounds awesome! I bet they had fun re-enacting the stuffed animal laugh scene to a musical style. Groovy.

    Evil Dead 1 & 2: The Musical

    Via her majesty.

  • New Laptop Falters at the Starting Gate

    Her majesty and I just opened her new Alienware laptop. She’s currently on the phone with tech support trying to figure why her 1, 5, and 0 keys do not work to input in the Windows XP serial #. I’m sure it’s something trivial; this 15 1/2 inches wide, 11 1/2 inches long, 2 inches thick, and 14 12 lbs behometh is going to be a blast carrying through 3 security checkpoints on my way to Sydney for MXDU 2005.

    At least it boots fast… and the power button and alienhead glow!

    :: hears Peldi’s disapproving sigh ::

    Done. Turns out those #’s are not in Windows XP serial #’s. It’s fun to type in numbers, then flip the laptop high into the air to read the #’s underneath it Verdana 4 point, and repeat the process for each section of #’s.

    I’m sure it’ll regain it’s respect once her majesty caps some dudes on Counterstrike Source, and I brag about her 120 fps at full settings.