Dear Reader,
Previously, I mentioned that my article that I wrote in May, PHP: The Power behind Web 2.0, finally got published in Dr. Dobbs . I wasn’t’ sure if it was going to be in the print edition or just in the web version. Well it came today, I was actually in the print [...]

Ok, that last post was as close as I’m gonna get to a “year in review” post. I just don’t like looking backwards that much. So let’s take a moment to look forward and set some goals.

By Cal Evans
(Editor’s Note: This is an older article. I wrote this around 1999 but most of it still applies today.)
Managing software developers requires a different mindset than managing other types of employees. By its very nature, software development is a cross between the rigorous detail of engineering and the craftsman pursuits like fine carpentry. [...]

That makes two magazine articles this year and I’ll miss my other goal for the year, a book published, by a month or so.