Lots of technology blogs piled up, but first thing’s first. Last week I was in Chicago for some meetings at the ThoughtWorks head office. On the Monday night one of my colleagues hosted a charity fund raising dinner which included some magnificent Ethiopian food (and beer). During a presentation, she told us personal anecdotes about [...]
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/14/technology/kirkpatrick_thoughtworks.fortune/index.htm Nuff said (although journalists never quite get it.)
After a meeting of the office of the CTO, most of us stayed around in our San Francisco office for a few days to do some podcasts and to participate in a Code Jam for Inveneo, a not-for-profit who provide computers and connectivity to developing countries (especially their schools, hospitals, and poorer villages). They install [...]
If you’re complaining to someone about how wet it is, or cold, or hot, or how much interest rates have gone up, or your shares in Acme corp have gone down, or how your neighbour turns the music up too loud and you can’t sleep – just have a reality check for a few hours [...]
From Incite comes Insight is not only one of my favourite blogs for Enterprise Architecture, but one for good ideas about each doing our part to make the world a better place. The latest one helps pour some soothing balm on the inner cynical voice. Just for kicks, could all my ThoughtWorks colleagues do a [...]
Recently, Les Hatton wrote a compelling article entitled The Chimera of Software Quality. (Les Hatton, “The Chimera of Software Quality,” Computer, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 104, 102-103, Aug., 2007) A section of the article headed The cost of poor quality points out the economic impact of poor software quality, and the almost belligerently ignorant [...]
