By Ben | Published:
December 10, 2007
From The Tao Of Programming…
A manager went to the master programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the master: “How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?’”
“It will take one year,’” said the master promptly.
“But we need this system immediately [...]
By Ben | Published:
October 24, 2007
I’ve been using Vista for over a year now and I’ve been very happy with it overall. I’ve primarily used Business Edition, but I switched about a month ago to Ultimate Edition. The graph below shows my stability report over a one month period (higher is better)…
Today I re-installed Business Edition. Maybe now I can [...]
By Ben | Published:
October 24, 2007
I’ve been spending roughly 4 – 8 hours a day doing remote pair-programming lately. Although there are always connectivity issues (usually once or twice per day), it’s still only a minor nuisance. Overall, I’m really enjoying the experience and it’s starting to feel pretty close to side-by-side pairing.
The tools that I use on a daily [...]
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By Ben | Published:
September 18, 2007
Found on Wikipedia…
“In Jeet Kune Do, one does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”
-Bruce Lee
Could your software use a litte Jeet Kune Do?
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By Ben | Published:
September 16, 2007
Sometimes, it’s good to unlearn.
Think backwards, throw out your preconceived notions, forget about dependencies, and ignore your constraints.
If you search long enough, you just might find the right problem to fix. When you focus on the right problem, you might actually surprise yourself with what you can come up with.
Q-Drum solved the right problem.
The real [...]
Also posted in business, design, world |
By Ben | Published:
September 5, 2007
For a long time I was a note-taking freak. I’ve probably used every type of note-taking technique and application out there at one point or another. I’ve relied extensively on Notepad, OneNote, DarkRoom, e, WriteBoard, stacks of Moleskines, every kind of PDA (including the hipster), TidlyWiki, MindManager, and a ton of others that I won’t [...]
By Ben | Published:
August 20, 2007
A couple of years ago I put together some collateral to use when “selling” agile to potential clients. As part of the effort to educate our sales team about agile methods I wanted to provide some strong evidence for our sales team to use.
The only numbers that I had seen at this point were the [...]
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By Ben | Published:
August 17, 2007
Overall, Agile 2007 was a wonderful experience. I really enjoyed my time at the conference and attended some really good sessions (and a few that were really bad as well). This was my first conference and I’ll be back for sure next year.
My favorite sessions included:
(Follow the links for the abstracts, presentations, and handouts)
Agile Enterprise [...]
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By Ben | Published:
August 12, 2007
I’m going to be at Agile 2007 this week.
The sessions look great this year
If anyone is hanging out and interested in meeting up, shoot me an email (b e n c a r e y @ g m a i l . c o m).
