I am working at home today and listening to Friday’s Talk of the Nation on NPR, which is the Science Friday edition. Today’s guest is John Maeda, author of the Laws of Simplicity, and founder of the Simplicity Consortium at the MIT Media Lab. John has published these 10 laws that are not only worthy […]
Read MoreTuesday was my birthday and my wife hit a home run. Check out my sweet new geek bike… Sweet bell Bike computer (speed, cadence, time, etc) Fat man seat Rear rack (for bulldog passenger seat) Headlight / taillight RAM Mount for my Treo or iPod Coffee mug That’s right! I rode down the street last […]
Read MoreWhat? Why in the world would you use Scrum for 2 people? Why not use XP and then you are inside each other’s head anyway? Let me essplain. Martin Danner and I recently became a team of 2 as the Software Architecture Team at Healthwise. For now, we even share an office. Although our projects are different, […]
Read MoreGoogle Bookmarks is a no-brainer application. To have all of your bookmarks available via your Google Toolbar is great because you get the same set of bookmarks from one browser to another and even one computer to another. Taking that to the next level, you can include the iGoogle Bookmark gadget on your iGoogle page. […]
Read MoreAlthough there are attempts to make it work, ReSharper does not support using MSUnit as the unit testing framework within its unit testing support. Although I appreciate NUnit and the functionality advantages it has over MSUnit, it does seem an oversight to not support it in a product that is meant to ease the lives of the […]
Read MoreThere are a few little usability items that I have meant to blog about recently and have not found the time. Here is a little screencast that I made to mash all of them into one little video that talks about Windows Vista Ultimate Dream Scene, RocketDock (an OSX style widget for Windows), and new […]
Read MoreTeams often need to discover the right way to solve a problem before embarking on the solution itself. The “R” in Research and Development is why many of us got into this line of work. Scrum is a powerful technique for producing functional software quickly and efficiently, but how does it handle the problem of research? Scrum teams […]
Read More(SOA) Service Oriented Architecture, (MDA) Model Driven Architecture, (MDE) Model Driven Engineering, (MDD) Model Driven Development, (DDD) Domain Driven Design, (EDA) Event Driven Architecture, (TDD) Test Driven Development. (FDD) Feature Driven Development, (EDP) Event Driven Programming, (BDD) Behavior Driven Development, (AOP) Aspect Oriented Programming, (COP) Concept-oriented programming, (AOP) Attribute Oriented Programming, (OOP) Object Oriented Programming, […]
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