Recently there has been a spate of bad stories about companies completely messing up the response to tweets on Twitter. As a user myself I see my share of that. But sometimes good conversations come out of it, as was the case with one of our local news stations. BayNews9 is a local Tampa, FL…
Month: July 2009
Nominated for the Agile Alliance Board
The official nominations for the Agile Alliance are out, and I’m on the list. My position statement is below, but there are a couple of other things I want to add. There were two key reasons I am interested in being a part of the board. The first is because I am not a consultant,…
Women in Technology
Over the past several months, I’ve seen a resurgence on the various mailing lists I’m on asking a simple question – why aren’t more women in technology, and software development specifically? For example, on the Software Craftsmanship mailing list, Josh Cronemeyer asked the following: I was talking to a colleague about the SCNA conference. When…
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException when opening an ASP.NET Project
This morning I was opening an ASP.NET project on my Win7 box in Visual Studio 2008, when a message popped up which only said: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException If you run into this, there are three things you need to do: Make sure you have IIS installed – This sounds silly, but since I had just rebuilt my…
New Home
You may have noticed a new look and feel around the site. Yes, after just 5 years I’ve finally updated the theme for the site, changing entire hosts and blogging platforms in the process. The whole thing went so smoothly that it still feels wrong. Hosting Providers – I switched from HostMySite.com (still one of…