Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons speak about the challenges of Enterprise Architecture in agile environments:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/agilists-and-architects
Archive for June, 2009
http://www.codesqueeze.com/the-ultimate-top-25-chuck-norris-the-programmer-jokes/
“6. Chuck Norris doesn’t need garbage collection because he doesn’t call .Dispose(), he calls .DropKick().” … ROFL
Dreamhost
10Jun09I’ve been using Dreamhost services for a few years now and thought I should finally write about my experiences. They’ve all been positive.
Not surprisingly, Dreamhost are a host provider. They’re a Unix shop with a wealth of support for all my favorite open source technologies. They provide shell access to your domain [...]
Throw-it-Over-the-Wall-Mentality
03Jun09I’ve struggled with this throughout my career, but it’s never made sense to me until recently.
A colleague said something about operating in isolated environments so that one skill-set does not influence another skill-set. He was referring specifically to analysts not having access to development resources so that the requirements gathered from the client are [...]
Melbourne, Australia
03Jun09Went to Melbourne a while back for a long weekend. Kelly was on training for a week, but she decided to go up on the Thursday beforehand, and I decided to tag along for the weekend.
I have to say, it became my second favorite city in Australia next to Perth. I’ve since then [...]
BlackBerry Curve 8310 Smartphone
03Jun09Yes, I now have a Blackberry and an IPhone.
It’s kind of a sore spot, but basically I picked up my IPhone (with 2-year, heavily data-bundled contract) less than 24 hours before work asked me if I wanted a company BlackBerry. Doh. I actually resisted the idea of having 2 phones for some time, [...]
