September 2009
8 posts
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... →
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... →
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.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... →
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…
August 2009
85 posts
Running Oracle XE on Mac OSX using virtualised... →
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…
Tapestry 5 web framework →
Lately I’ve been writing a Tapestry 5 based web application. I’ve used it before for a smaller application but this is the first time I’ve used it on a larger project. In a number of ways it is a…
Clan Analogue back catalogue : the Festival Years →
Everyone’s releasing back catalogue it seems. My friends at Transmission Communications are also working on their 1990s back catalogue too. In the email this afternoon from this little missive…
Basics of the Unix Philosophy →
This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
Mail.app alternatives – Mailplane FTW! →
Based on the post from the other day about Mozilla Thunderbird as an alternative to Apple’s Mail.app, I got a recommendation on the straight-talking java mailing from Joey Gibson to check out…
Giant Model Railroad Is an Analog SimCity | Raw... →
Though itâs located just a short drive from the company that launched SimCity and Spore, the Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society has stuck by these venerable techniques and still makes believe the…