http://grahamis.com/blog It's too real to be true Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:25:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/06/26/a-hope-for-children-in-ethiopia/ My colleague Jay Fields recently blogged about the value of test names. We had a little discussion about it yesterday on IM. Here's a summary. Josh Graham I feel the test name is important for two reasons: 1) it is intentional programming - a neural pathway is established in your brain as you write ... http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-value-of-test-names/ I am in IT. I think it's pretty easy to find that out about me. Nothing in my CV indicates the ability to fly aeroplanes or helicopters. Either the pattern matching spamming software has gone wonky, or this dude has set a new low watermark... (with apologies to the half dozen recruiters ... http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/05/14/just-when-you-think-recruiters-couldnt-be-more-lame/ JoshG is a busy bee: Australian Architecture Forum 2008 (Melbourne May 16 & Sydney May 19): Final keynote (with Richard Durnall and Jim Webber respectively) JAOO Australia 2008 (Brisbane May 28-30 & Sydney June 2-4): organising Enterprise 2.0 (Boston June 9-12): attending Agile 2008 (Toronto August 4-8): speaking If you are a software technologist in ... http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/05/06/upcoming-conferences/ Hot on the heals of the Mingle 2.0 announcement, ThoughtWorks Studios has released information on the next generation of the world's most popular Continuous Integration engine, CruiseControl, called Cruise. It is a ground-up rewrite accomplished in around 8 months with an emphasis on catering to enterprise software development teams and large-scale ... http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/04/23/cruisecontrol-comes-of-age-cruise-and-relax/ In response to Dr Nick's technological feat, Ajey suggested I take on the much more challenging task of running OS X on a PC. Result!! Also, Mingle 2.0 is released! Another fantastic effort from the ThoughtWorks Studios crew. http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/04/15/running-os-x-on-pc/ Software intelligence has come of age! My colleagues at ThoughtWorks Studios have cracked the automation of the software development process. Compuware, IBM and Borland have been trying for years. MDA is the useless love-child of CASE and UML. It takes true genius to solve this problem: http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-hidden/introducing-mingle-proj-o-matic My erstwhile colleague, Jon Tirsen, now ... http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/04/01/computing-fulfils-the-dreams/ My CTO, Rebecca Parsons, announced the publication of the ThoughtWorks Anthology a few days ago: I am thrilled to announce that the ThoughtWorks Anthology is now ON SALE! http://www.pragprog.com/titles/twa There are essays by Roy and Michael Robinson, Martin, Neal Ford, Tiffany Lentz, Stelios Pantazopoulos, Ian Robinson, Erik Doernenburg, Kristan Vingrys and ... http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/03/23/thoughtworks-anthology/ http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/14/technology/kirkpatrick_thoughtworks.fortune/index.htm Nuff said (although journalists never quite get it.) http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/03/18/thaz-my-bro/ 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, ... http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/02/29/jamming-for-inveneo/