Weinberg Thanks Readers in Japan [AYE Blog]

Jerry Weinberg posted his thanks to readers in Japan, including this advice:

Take my books, and the books of others, as if they were tempting meals.

Taste everything, but swallow only what tastes right to you.

Read the full entry on the AYE Blog.

Housekeeping: e-DHQ and Error-Reporting Fixed

We fixed a glitch in our e-DHQ sign-up form, so please try to sign up again if you haven't heard from us. The next e-DHQ will go out before March.

The sign-ups are in the left margin of most pages, but here's the main maintenance page:

http://www.dorsethouse.com/e-dhq-sub.html

This blog is also available by e-mail. See the sign-up box in the right margin of this page, powered by Bloglet.

We customized our error page with a form for reporting our errors -- thanks in advance for your help. (We're especially lucky to have so many testers visiting our site!)
See http://www.dorsethouse.com/error-page.html

Johanna Rothman Speaks Online [IT Conversations]

Author Johanna Rothman was recently interviewed by Roy Osherove on ITConversations.com. Check that page for an MP3 download of the audio interview.

The chat, "Hiring Techies and Nerds," follows publication of her book Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds and was selected as a Pick of the Week on OReillynet.com.

So, hear Johanna speak and then check out her blog on hiring, Hiring Technical People.

Roy Osherove's blog is at http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove.

DeMarco Says "Keep Growing" [CIO.com.au]

Peopleware coauthor Tom DeMarco is quoted in Part III of "Ready for Retirement," by Sue Bushell, posted on CIO.com.au:

"It's important to keep growing," says Tom DeMarco, a consultant at Cutter Consortium in Arlington, Massachusetts, in the US. "As we learned from the 1990s and again in the downturn in 2004, corporations have no particular loyalty, even to people on the brink of retirement. . . ."

DeMarco, winner of the 1986 Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing" and the 1999 Stevens Award for "contribution to the methods of software development," serves as director of the annual Camden Conference, to be held in Camden, Maine, from Feb. 24 to 26. Visit http://camdenconference.org/.