Month: July 2008

Some friends wished out loud for a way to compare the results of Google to the new search engine Cuil. Ask, and ye shall receive. And because I’m sure someone will be asking, here’s a Live vs Cuil page as well.

So this evening I’m happily toting along, and I look down to suddenly having over 100 unread email messages in my inbox. Looks like someone has used my main email address as the “from” for a big spam run. Who knows how bad *this* is going to be. Anyway, if you’ve come to the site…

Next month, on August 13th, I’m going to be speaking at the Agile Tampa meeting on “XP and Scrum: Tools and Practices for Making your Organization Agile”. It’s a long title (as anyone who has paired with me will know, I like long method names to describe behavior), but it will cover some very important…

If you are interested in spinning up a Rails app without a database, it is a little trickier in 2.0 than in previous versions. Do the following: rails nodbspikescript/generate controller hello This sets up a basic Rails app with a controller. Modify app/controllers/hello_controller.rb to include the following: def index  render :text => “Hello, world!”end You now…

On Monday, I started my new role as a Development Manager of a team here in Tampa. I’m extremely excited to be working with them – they are a great team that has been around for a long time, and are excited about finding new ways to produce software. Last Thursday they released a new…

Over on the XP list, someone posted a link to an article entitled A Soft Answer. It’s a great story about an incident on a subway train between someone trained in Akido, an unruly drunk man, and a older Japanese man who shows truly effective communication skills: Now it was my turn. Standing there in…