Many of us complain about how ""pointy hair bosses"", ridiculous IT policies, and a culture of complacency make it difficult if not impossible to function successfully as a developer. But how can the person on the low end of the organizational hierarchy make a difference for the better ( without being fired ) ? In this talk, I'll give you some ideas of what I've done in the past to help be a positive agent of change in organizations I've been a part of, and what lessons I've learned from it. We'll look at implementing development tools incognito, engaging with higher-ups, and dealing with the failures that go along the way.
7. Hack - In computer security and
everyday language, a hacker is
someone who breaks into
computers and computer
networks.
8. Hack - In modern computing
terminology, a kludge (or often a
"hack") is a solution to a
problem, doing a task, or fixing
a system (whether hardware or
software) that is
inefficient, inelegant, or even
unfathomable, but which
nevertheless (more or less)
works.
9.
10. Life Hack - The term life hack refers to
productivity tricks that computer
programmers devise and employ to cut
through information overload and
organize their data. In more recent
times, the same phrase has expanded
to any sort of trick, shortcut, skill, or
novelty method to increase productivity
and efficiency, in all walks of life. Or, in
other words, anything that solves an
everyday problem in a clever or non-
obvious way might be called a life
hack.