软件研发工程师的合作文化相关

软件研发工程师的合作文化相关范文

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　　Collaborative Culture for Software Developers

　　Expression and inspiration rule at this computer party

　　What happens?

　　Last May, about 95 people for various stages of the 12-hour event. The party played out like this:

　　2:15 p.m., study hall: Programmers arrive and begin quietly on their laptops. A few guys soon get up and graze the spread covering the kitchen counter: burritos, pulled pork, chocolate cake.

　　3:28 p.m., syncing up: Three laptop-toting strangers sitting around a table on the sundeck strike up a conversation about a new social-networking startup.

　　4:37 p.m., tech toys: All of a sudden, someone zips through the kitchen on a Segway scooter. Programmers leap up, take snapshots and immediately upload the images to Flickr.com.

　　5:03 p.m., : By talking shop with techies here, a business owner knows quickly who is competent.

　　In full swing

　　6:59 p.m., hostarrives: Serialentrepreneur Joel Harrison returns home after logging nine hours at the office, and the party is in full swing. Soon after the 59-year-old eases into a chair, engineers half his age chat excitedly with him about what they’re working on. Some don’t realize they’re swapping stories with a man who co-founded hard disk drive maker Quantum in 1980. Harrison, now on his seventh startup, tries to pass as just another techie.

　　“I came home tired,” Harrison says, “but this has me.”

　　9:11 p.m., lightning lectures: Nearly 50 people cram into the living room for an hour and a half session of six-minute technical talks.

　　Winding down, but going strong

　　11:00 p.m., relaxing: Several partiers are in the pool or outdoor hot tub giving their brains a break. After an hour they towel off and go back to the computers for some serious work.

　　2:05 a.m., coffee to go: The remaining 35 late-nighters pull the furniture back in place and pack up the power strips scattered throughout the house. Six wide-eyed techies don’t want to call it quits. They load into cars and continue discussions about action scripts, Twitter adapters and theoretical web services at a local café.

　　Vocabulary Focus

　　collaborative(adj)--- involving two or more people working together for a special purpose

　　tricks of the trade (idiom)--- clever methods that help you to do a job better or faster

　　word of mouth (idiom)--- information heard from other people, not based on fact

　　churn out (phr. v)--- to produce large amounts of something quickly

　　play out(phr. v)--- to happen and develop

　　strike up (phr. v)--- to start a conversation with someone

　　talk shop (idiom)--- to talk about your job or field when not at work

　　in full swing (idiom)--- already been happening for a period of time and still having a lot of activity

　　wind down (phr. v)--- to end gradually or in stages

　　call it quits (idiom)--- to stop doing something

　　Specialized terms

　　pet project(n phr)--- 基于兴趣而做的研究计划 a favorite activity done for its enjoyment, rather than out of necessity

　　graze the spread (idiom)--- 不吃正餐而不停地少量进食桌上各种点心 instead of sitting down to a full meal, repeatedly returning to eat small amounts of a lot of different foods arranged on table or counter

　　serial entrepreneur (n. phr)--- 连续创业家 someone who successfully starts a serious of new companies

　　towel off (phr.v)--- 用毛巾擦干 to dry yourself with a towel