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Introducing the WACD Methodology

Pronounced 'whacked', WACD is short for:

• W - Wild
• A - Ass
• C - Cowboy
• D - Development

Key WACD Tenets

• Use IDD (Instinct Driven Development). After all, you’re the one who has to build it.
• Always code alone. Other opinions rarely help, so, in the end, they just slow you down.
• Always don’t test. You know what you're doing. Like opinions, this is just more drag.
• Document when asked but never again. You’re not a writer. Who’s going to read it anyway?
• Keep information to yourself. Anything else just risks you losing your job.
• CM with zip. You're stuff is archived. You know where it is – that’s all that really matters.

Benefits of a WACD Team

• Overdue projects
• Low levels of usability
• Lots of application bugs
• Costly O&M
• High staff turnover

Google Mail Up

It's back.  At least, for now.

Google Mail Down

Lately, no matter where you look, the unthinkable is being thought of.

Google Mail has been down for last 40 minutes.  Sitting here at downtown Reston's Panera, I have connectivity to any other site to which whim takes me.  Just not Google Mail.  

Sites like this don't have scheduled outages.  At least this used to be the case.

Generally, I recommend Google.  This most recent email outage is starting to put dents in my trust.  After their Feb 09 outage, you'd think they would've pulled out all the stops to make sure mail service wouldn't die only a few days later.