Virtual Surreality

Probably worth looking at if you’re international, as it contains many global references and is likely to be applicable to you anyway.

http://www.straterjee.com/2008Issues&Opportunities.pdf

Straterjee is a business and marketing strategy consultancy using an agile approach to deliver results more quickly (sound familiar?). Their people have foundations in business strategy and they’re part of Australia’s leading marketing and communications group, STW and sit along Aussie household names like Singleton Ogilvy & Mather, Massive Interactive, and Ikon.

I met Dave and Tristan from straterjee and it was great to see how Lean and Agile principles are naturally applied in another type of consulting service. I was given the honour of contributing to their annual forward viewing paper on behalf of ThoughtWorks and the whole report is a great read.

Naming a framework is like naming a child – you need to be careful because people will find ways to make fun of the name, especially when it becomes surreal in truth. You’re a happy countenance and before you guano it, a tiny dipthong comes along and you’re excrement.

That’s good advice, or my name isn’t Richard “worm pants” Fiddlesbottom.

For those of us in the not cool enough for school camp and developing Ruby apps on Windows, try http://e-texteditor.com/ a TextMate clone for Windows. It uses TextMate bundles directly, so you get lots of goodies. It also installs cygwin automatically if you need to.

Not free, but a 30 day trial.

Will update with experiences.