Immaterial Culture

Agile and assembly lines

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:42:12 +1000

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

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:14:41 +1000

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?

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:07:04 +1000

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

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:38:47 +1000

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

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:24:32 +1000

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

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:15:41 +1000

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

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:40:48 +1000

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

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:58:58 +1000

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...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:23:06 +1000

Backdeck Succulents:

The succulents bathed in diffuse morning light.

Backdeck Succulents: The succulents bathed in diffuse morning...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:23:00 +1000

Backdeck Succulents:

The succulents bathed in diffuse morning light.

Backdeck Succulents - Cactus flower buds: The succulents...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:22:55 +1000

Backdeck Succulents - Cactus flower buds:

The succulents bathed in diffuse morning light.

Backdeck Succulents - Cactus flower buds: The succulents...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:22:50 +1000

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...

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:16:00 +1000

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...

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:15:54 +1000

Buster!:

Running Oracle XE on Mac OSX using virtualised JeOS

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:41:40 +1000

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…

Tapestry 5 web framework

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:42:41 +1000

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…

Nocnoi Portrait I: This here is Nocnoi (knock-noy). He is a...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:14:01 +1000

Nocnoi Portrait I:

This here is Nocnoi (knock-noy). He is a rescue budgie and lives with our two other budgies (one of which he is the daddy of). He has a gammy leg on account of a partially smashed hip. Despite his injuries and his funny hobble, he is “top bird” and gets first pick at perches and food always. Here he is probably willing me and my beer-can armed camera to burst into flames and reduce to cinders. He is like that, much to our amusement, which of course only causes his chagrin to be inflamed even further.

Taken with the Minolta 70-210mm f/4 “beercan”.

Nocnoi Portrait II: He’s a rescue budgie with a gammy...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:13:56 +1000

Nocnoi Portrait II:

He’s a rescue budgie with a gammy leg and disjoint hip; and he’s just divine. Taken with the Minolta 70-210mm f/4 “beercan”.

Nocnoi Portrait III: He’s a rescue budgie with a gammy...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:13:49 +1000

Nocnoi Portrait III:

He’s a rescue budgie with a gammy leg and disjoint hip; and he’s just divine. Taken with the Minolta 70-210mm f/4 “beercan”.

Tiny Green Hunter: A tiny green jumping spider. Less 5mm. I...

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:56:32 +1000

Tiny Green Hunter:

A tiny green jumping spider. Less 5mm. I went out into the backyard to get a caterpillar that Lisa saw, so I had the 50mm macro lens on, this guy was also there, he is tiny so please excuse the tight crop! This shot has heavier colour processing done to it with Aperture than the other one.