Category Archives: community

Speaking At Agile Carolinas

By Ben | Published: May 18, 2009

I’m going to be speaking at Agile Carolinas on May 21st (this Thursday). My topic will be: Adopting a Whole-team Approach To Quality
The talk includes some discussion of testing, but it is mostly centered around figuring out how to deliver great software.
If you’re in the area, stop by and say hi.
I’ll post the presentation [...]

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Books That Changed My Life

By Ben | Published: December 18, 2007

I was excited to see James put up 22books. The site is off to a great start and reading is something that I’m very passionate about. I read a lot of books and I frequently check in with others about what they are reading.
A tradition that I’ve had over the past ten or so years [...]

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Announcing: Big Visible Cruise

By Ben | Published: November 21, 2007

Over the past couple of days, I’ve been pulling together a simple Information Radiator for CruiseControl.net. The idea behind the project is to use the power of visualizations to provide simple, visible, and informative displays that expose the current-state of your automated continuous integration builds.
I threw this app together very quickly a week or so [...]

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CodeMash Starts!

By Ben | Published: January 18, 2007

CodeMash has started! To see what’s going on, check out technorati and flickr.
I just attended the keynote session by Neal Ford. I have to say that it was one of the best keynotes that I’ve seen in a long time. The session was “Domain Specific Languages and Their Role in the Evolution of the Programming [...]

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Wow, I Really Miss Dreamless

By Ben | Published: January 2, 2007

Back in 1999, there was a site named dreamless.org.
Unfortunately the site closed after a couple of years and it hasn’t come back. Dreamless was an amazing place with some amazing people during a crazy time. I could go on for hours talking about how great the site and many of the ideas discussed on the [...]