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Agile and assembly lines
Coder Friendly’s got an interesting article about Agile Evangelism. First I’m not going to take issue with the article itself but something that he quotes from DanC’s Lost Garden on Managing…
Do It Yourself Agile: Better, Stronger, Faster Programmers - We Have The Technology
Agile is an improvement framework. It will expose quite painfully where the problems are, it is up to you to recognize them and solve them.
Ockham's Razor - 13 September 2009 - What do we mean by species?
Colin Groves, who’s Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, discusses the definition of a species.
The Boy Who Heard Too Much : Rolling Stone
He was a 14-year-old blind kid, angry and alone. Then he discovered that he possessed a strange and fearsome superpower â one that put him in the cross hairs of the FBI
American Express are enablers of security threats
Peter Newton, “Director of Marketing” at American Express Australia Limited ABN 92 108 952 085, really likes Russian Mafiosa. Or maybe it’s Chinese Triads, bikie gangs, or maybe some local spivs…
Snow Leopard Compatibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List
leopard.jpg Below is a list of applications and their compatibility status with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the most recent operating system from Apple. Please collaborate by sharing your experiences…
Eric Evans, Strategic Design - Responsibility Traps : InfoQ
Eric discusses the need for strategic thinking an how early design decisions have major impact on the organization and the entire development process. He uses the lens of DDD Strategic Design…
Systems versus Individuals and technical debt
I kind of disagree with this picture by Josh Susser regarding the “circle of death” in terms of code quality and late night effort. It is right enough as far as it goes but it doesn’t go far…
Backdeck Succulents:
The succulents bathed in diffuse morning light.
Backdeck Succulents:
The succulents bathed in diffuse morning light.
Backdeck Succulents - Cactus flower buds:
The succulents bathed in diffuse morning light.
Backdeck Succulents - Cactus flower buds:
The succulents bathed in diffuse morning light.
Buster!:
This here is Buster. He is love in the form of a budgerigar. We got him to be a companion for our first budgie, Princess - a rescued escapee who came into our care one day. She seemed deparately lonely, so we got her the friendliest budgie we could find - Prince Buster. She loved him, right to the end, poor thing, and he loved her back with all his little Budgie heart. When she got really sick with diabetes, Buster would come up to her and squeek softly (she was blind by this point) and then she’d let him allopreen her. Nowadays he spends his time trying to chat up Nocnoi. he’s friends with everyone.
Buster!:
This here is Buster. He is love in the form of a budgerigar. We got him to be a companion for our first budgie, Princess - a rescued escapee who came into our care one day. She seemed deparately lonely, so we got her the friendliest budgie we could find - Prince Buster. She loved him, right to the end, poor thing, and he loved her back with all his little Budgie heart. When she got really sick with diabetes, Buster would come up to her and squeek softly (she was blind by this point) and then she’d let him allopreen her. Nowadays he spends his time trying to chat up Nocnoi. he’s friends with everyone.
Running Oracle XE on Mac OSX using virtualised JeOS
So Oracle in its wisdom doesn’t have Mac OSX version of its free database. This is of course really annoying to Mac users who need to develop systems that use Oracle databases – Oracle XE is a great…
