asciidoc experiments
I have always been interested in text processing systems. This is probably rooted in the time that I discovered computing and programming. At that time the state of the art was ROFF (T)ROFF and a …
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Stabilizing Velocity
I came across this post by Michael Norton and thought I would reference it here: Stabilising Velocity Michael makes some keen observations on both causes and effects of unstable velocity. Predictable …
Technology Synergy
I started writing this post quite some time ago but never got around to wrapping up the loose ends. The article is really a summary of what I learnt during a pretty intense media web site development …
Using a local Wiki for personal knowledge management
For sometime I have been wondering how best to manage all the information that collects in my laptop. I don’t even have to try to collect data it just arrives in an irregular stream of emails, instant …
Agile Software Development and Golf
 Faced with the question ‘What do you do?’ from family and friends is more challenging than it should be. Most other professions have been …
Collaborating distributed teams
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around for a very long time (1988) and Instant Messaging (IM) for even longer – although IM did not become really popular until the mid 90’s with the emergence of …
Face to Face pairing
Since joining ThoughtWorks in 2004 I have enjoyed Pair Programming and my programming skills have improved significantly. Working on a problem with someone else full time is one of those practices …
The rise and fall of waterfall - on you tube
If you have been in software development for a while this might make you chuckle :) The Rise And Fall Of Waterfall
XP and the cost of change
I have found myself drawing the classic cost of change graph a few times recently so thought I would blog about it. The graph was popular a few year ago in explaining the differences between and …
Cross post: A Brief And Incomplete History Of Build Pipelines
Sam Newman has just published a Brief And Incomplete History Of Build Pipelines which makes interesting reading. It will be interesting to see where the concepts take us in the next few years.