A couple of cool going-ons over the next several weeks: On Monday, March 2nd, David J. Anderson will be in Tampa for one day. We’re going to do a get-together in the evening, so if you are interested, let me know via email (foyc at this blog) or on Twitter at cory_foy. David is putting…
Month: February 2009
Disciplines: Redux
In my overview post on this series, I used the term discipline, and still believe in that term. Some people commented that it may be confusing, since there are so many ways we think of and talk about discipline. The easiest way to explain it is with this awesome quote from The Fifth Discipline: The…
Disciplines: Overview
In my last post on discipline, I discuss disciplines as being the thing that kicks in when motivation fails you. More importantly, I state that there are specific disciplines which I believe apply across software developers wishing to be better at what they do. In doing research for this topic, I came across many references…
Round up from the Friday acts_as_conference Sessions
On Friday, I got the opportunity to attend the excellent acts_as_conference right here in Florida (over in Orlando). The conference is a one-track Ruby conference that had about 130 attendees show up. I was excited by both the schedule and the attendees, and though I was only able to attend on Friday, I wasn’t disappointed….