New Laptop.. Woohoo!!

I just picked up my new laptop at BestBuy.  Its an Asus X83Vm-X2, with a Core 2 Duo, 4GB, an NVidia 9600M GS with its own 1GB, 320GB HDD and Vista Home Premium 64..
Nice!
Now the fun part.  Moving off my trusty, heavy and VERY noisy Dell Inspiron 9100 and figuring out what won’t run natively [...]

No, YOU don’t get the point..

In this post, Stephan Schmidt says Martin Fowler misses the point because Scrum is not about engineering practices (see here).
Actually, Stephan, you missed Martin’s point.
Martin’s post says essentially, that Scrum is gaining a reputation as an agile process that doesn’t work.  That is happening because the people who are adopting Scrum as their process believe [...]

Yes I Can Get Some Support..

The day after my last blog post about the standards group’s seemingly knee-jerk reaction to our CI choice, the group collectively got together and decided that encouraging CI was more important than the tool being used.
They got it.  All I had to do was point it out, and after some thought, they agreed.
I feel better [...]

Can I Get Some Support Here?

I’ve been chasing my development comrades around for a year or so, convincing them that test-driven development is a good thing.  That continuous integration is a great way to show what  a great job we’re doing by being transparent – posting our success and coverage numbers for everyone to see.
All the developers I can get [...]

Refactoring this site..

Just to separate things, I’ve decided to start a second weblog for my Life in America entries; that way I won’t be wasting your time when you come looking..
If you care, you’ll find those entries here
I’ve also started a separate blog for the Repellicans ‘cause they’re a mess and I like to isolate messes like [...]