Category: General

I’m working on a project where we are automating the notification of a project management system. The storage mechanism is all XML files, so we’re using the FileSystemWatcher. Since I wear a green Test-First wrist band I wanted to find a way to write this test-first. The logic that we are working with is that…

At the Agile 2008 conference this year, I had the chance to run into Keith Braithwaite after Ron and Chet’s talk about agile practices. One of the things we talked about was Brian Marick’s examples (a.k.a. “An Example Would be Handy Right About Now”). I’ve given lots of thought about examples over the past couple…

If you are using CoRD to connect from OSX to a Windows machine over RDP, you may initially be confused as to how to do a “Right-Click” – especially if you are on a MacBook like I am. Have no fear – do a “Shift-Ctrl-Click” to access all the Right-Click goodness.

Last night I presented at the Agile Tampa meeting at the new Microsoft office here in Tampa. We covered adopting agile practices in an organization. The important take away was that you don’t want to just adopt practices blindly. You have to take into consideration things like the adoption model (from Crossing the Chasm), the…

Just a reminder that this Wednesday (August 13th) is the next Agile Tampa meeting. I’m speaking this month on a talk titled “XP and Scrum: Tools and Practices for Making Your Organization Agile”. Pizza starts at 6pm, and the talk starts at 6:30pm. Michael graciously says it will go till 9pm, but I promise not…

It’s that time of year again! Agile 2008 starts on Monday in Toronto, and I’m looking forward to it. I do have some concerns about the quality given the number of people (1600) coming to it. They used an interesting stage concept this year, so we’ll see how that goes. I’ve also joined the Twitter…

It’s late at night. You’ve gotten hungry or thirsty, and have decided to pop down to your kitchen for a snack. You just want to grab it and go. Halfway through the kitchen, you hear something skittering across the floor. You also hear a strange sticky sound, and what also sounds like water dripping. You…

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…