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June 25, 2008

Why I Blog (Part 1)

Reasons why I blog....

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June 14, 2008

Tune Monster

In my spare time, I've been building a somewhat complicated musical instrument. It's been a monster....

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June 12, 2008

You gotta see this

I don't usually do family stories -- my wife blogs several times a day, so she takes care of most of that. But this one is a little different. Katrina, our youngest, went for her first roller-coaster ride last weekend....

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June 9, 2008

Arches, Arches, Everywhere

A very photogenic hunk of metal It's been a while since I've posted pictures here -- mostly because I've been too busy playing with other things to take the camera out. But this past weekend was an exception. The family...

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June 5, 2008

It's not Just Testing

Lately when we talk about making sure our code is done well, we talk about various types of testing -- unit, system, stress, integration, performance, etc. But it's not just testing. Everybody knows (or should know) what a code walkthrough...

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June 4, 2008

Seven Deadly Agile Sins

I spend a lot of time talking to teams about what to do to become more agile. I also see a lot of teams that never make it to their potential. Instead of giving you a bunch of "do this"...

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June 2, 2008

Saucers in the news

Couple of UFO/Alien stories in the news. First, a guy in Colorado claims aliens have been visiting him. That's not unusual, except he also claims to have video -- video that was thoroughly checked by an expert in video technology....

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