Google Developer Day 07

Just found out, they upsized the venue - and I'm in! preview of the day here:

http://code.google.com/events/developerday/au-home.html

Will post a review after it happens.

Generation Y

This is a very interesting article on managing fresh talent who have just entered the workplace out of uni (or genY as the oldies call it these days). Even though I still feel fairly young in my career, being a KFC trained lemming, I can sympathise with what they're getting at. I feel I've worked pretty hard myself, and it gets to me a little when someone thinks they deserve everything without proving their worth. I've had a bit of experience now dealing with this kind of thing - at this stage I guess it's a mind set that both sides need to comprimise on.

Of course there's always exceptions to the rule. Make up your own mind - read about here:

http://blogs.smh.com.au/enterprise/archives/2007/05/are_geny_really_despicable.html

How good are rss feeds?

Yes, I am a late bloomer. It takes me a little while to catch on sometimes when I'm preoccupied by alot of other things. But now that I've learnt how to use the feed reader in IE7 properly - it kinda saves me heaps of time and shows me info I want when new stuff becomes available - rather then wading through masses of irrelevent stuff. Why didn't anyone tell me about this before!?!?!

management bullies

Just read an interesting blog article on microsoft's bullying management nature from an ex employee... gives a little insight into the company. It may get results, but jeez, I kinda like to have fun at work too. I guess if you've got deep pockets you can afford to be a bully.

http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/05/microsoft_memor.html