When working on projects its helpful to know in which direction you are headed. Its good to place goals, do a bit of planning, and get things right to save time in the future. Unfortunately however, there is little to no information online on how to successfully manage and keep a big software project going. Sure there are management books on how to motivate people, or how to lead coworkers, or even how to plan every step of the project with careful diagrams, flow charts, and process graphs. As far as I could find a year ago there was nothing on how to get down and dirty and manage things like a build process, or an automatic unit test suite, or how to deal with different platforms in your build system. For the past year I have been working on a big project that required all these things and whenever I fell into a trap, or discovered a new idea, or came up with a new operation I wrote down little snip-its to be eventually published in this article. I hope others looking for information on how to manage a project effectively and efficiently will find some of these ideas very helpful.
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Security questions, my number one most hated thing online. I can see the logic behind these questions, the web site verifies personal information with your answers in case you misplace your password, username, etc. So what is my problem with these very nosy fields? Well first off who would want to tell random-shopping-place.net her maiden name, or his favorite pets name? I’ll admit most of the information is not worth much to most people, but I recently logged onto a site where they wanted five different security questions. Questions to choose from ranged from favorite band to favorite elementary school teacher. One question guys, that is my limit.
Ignoring the personal information and the question addicts, what else do I have against these questions? Well first rewind a bit and think about why they use these questions. Typically these questions are used to restore account access after you have been compromised or forget your information. Occasionally some people want answers just to change your log in info. Why do web sites feel the need to verify that the one with valid credentials can also answer a bunch of personal questions? Its just another useless security layer that might prevent <1% of unauthorized accesses for the retards using ‘password’ as their password. Security questions are nothing more than a retard test, and having to pass a retard test each time a user wants to log in is insulting to everyone; or at least it should be.
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