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I''m Not Sitting with Him!

I have been astounded and astonished more than once to hear fully grown adults utter these words: "I''m not sitting with him." It is almost as much as I can do sometimes to ask whether they think they are still in grade school. However, that would be unproductive.

The Professional Attitude

The reality of the modern workplace is that we might not connect with everyone as well as we might like. We will have to work with some folks who have bad breath, speak too loudly or too quietly, and so on. As professional software developers, we need to act in a professional manner and exhibit a professional attitude toward our colleagues.

Get With the Winning Approach

If we have a technique that enables us to deliver software that is better in some way (quicker to deliver, more robust and smaller), we should use it until we find a technique that creates more of what we want. In my opinion, this philosophy should be applied to more than just software development, but that''s a topic for