Furthering the quest to *get* agile

April 15th, 2009 • 1 comment Productivity, Uncategorized, agile, programming
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My academic learning focus has been a bit off recently, what with the amount of work i’ve had on. But, no excuses – my quest to grasp the academic history of agile delivery is taking steps forward, with my digging into DSDM. I’ve decided to focus on DSDM due to its UK-centricity, which I feel will have the greatest short term impact. I’ll get to SCRUM, XP, RUP, et al when i get to them.

I started the quest ages ago and have progressed it, but more in practice than in reading. Now’s the time for the reading to pick up again…

Kent Beck: Ease at work

March 25th, 2009 • Uncategorized
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Great presentation here by Kent Back on ease at work.

This relates to a post i made about security as a sense of stability at work.

My rough summary: Enjoy your work, feel secure, or make a change! Don’t accept any less!

Baby 2.0

December 2nd, 2008 • Uncategorized

We had our lovely 2nd son in November and he’s another gem.

Merb & Adobe Air File Uploader – Nice!

October 29th, 2008 • Internet, Ruby, Uncategorized, software development
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Whilst writing an Adobe Lightroom plugin to upload library items to a rails app, i spotted something i definitely need to play with! Adobe Air and Merb file uploader. Looks rather handy!