Jim‘s asked when architects moved out of development. After all a master builder is still a builder, right? An even more interesting question is “why” architects moved away from software and into Ivory Penthouses? [With a touch of my renowned sarcasm, sometime ago I brought the ivory tower / 30,000 feet view analogy into the [...]
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A long weekend in Sydney spend trawling the net, checked out TSS and looked again at JSR-170 (Content Repository). While there started branching off to various other sites, which leads me to the title of this entry. The good: http://www.jetbrains.com/company/people/Smirnova_Olesya.html. Olesya Smirnova. I like the tool, really like the namesake Vodka, and really really like [...]
Last night at the SyXPAC, my new colleagues at ThoughtWorks facilitated an XP Game in which we used balloons, cards, numbers and die as props. Customer interviews, estimation, story cards, iterations, business value, and velocity were the features of the game. It was a very fun experience and highlighted the fundamentals of planning and implementation. [...]
Only two weeks left at Optus now, and things are heating up. Must finish one niggling thing before I go but really needing to handover to others. Had a bo-peep at the Selenium web-based testing tool from ThoughtWorks. Very clever. Thinking that there’s some things that can be enhanced to protect it from muppet browser [...]
