Managing Software Maniacs or Ilmatars Inspirations

Managing Software Maniacs: Finding, Managing, and Rewarding a Winning Development Team

Author: Ken Whitaker

Using a humorous yet practical style, it offers excellent advice on every aspect of programmer management. Topics range from finding software developers, rewarding them and building an effective team.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	Getting Your Priorities Straight	1
2	Attracting and Keeping Developers	39
3	Becoming a Development Leader	67
4	The Development Team	93
5	Schedules	117
6	Office Dynamics	137
7	Listening to Marketing	151
8	Guiding Your Technology Future	175
	A Maniac's Glossary	209
	Index	213

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Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music

Author: Tina K Ramnarin

Ilmatar gave birth to the bard who sang the Finnish landscape into being in the
Kalevala (the Finnish national epic). In Ilmatar's Inspirations, Tina K. Ramnarine explores creative processes and the critical role that music has played in Finnish nationalism by focusing on Finnish "new folk music" in the shifting spaces between the national imagination and the global marketplace.
Through extensive interviews and observations of performances, Ramnarine reveals how new folk musicians think and talk about past and present folk music practices, the role of folk music in the representation of national identity, and the interactions of Finnish folk musicians with performers from around the globe. She focuses especially on two internationally successful groups—JPP, a group that plays fiddle dance music, and Värttinä, an ensemble that highlights women's vocal traditions. Analyzing the multilayered processes—musical, institutional, political, and commercial—that have shaped and are shaped by new folk music in Finland, Ramnarine gives us an entirely new understanding of the connections between music, place, and identity.