While riding my BMW R1150GS through the Idaho back country last week, I listened to a lot of podcasts, Beastie Boys, and Asleep at the Wheel. Pretty much in that order. Far and away my favorite podcast right now is Ron Jacobs’ Arcast, and I listened to several episodes while power sliding the bike around corners and […]
Read MoreThe Absolute Worst Keynote at a Technical Conference. Ever. Today’s keynote was the the longest 90 minutes in my recent memory. That’s 1.5 hours of my life I will never get back. The keynote address for the Agile 2007 conference was given by Susan Ershler who spent my precious 90 minutes saying things like, “Rah, rah” and “You […]
Read MoreI am at the Agile 2007 conference in Washington D.C. this week. After my attendance at last year’s event, I decided to make this conference a priority in subsequent years. Research in Progress : Agile Practices and Projects This year’s conference experience began, for me, by attending the morning session of the Research in Progress Workshop. This […]
Read MoreThe Idaho BMW Riders motorcycle group annually sponsors the week-long Nez Pierce ride and the infamous 3 day Stomp Rally. Last year I attended the Stomp and loved it. This year I?rode my r1150gs on the Nez through the Idaho back country and attended a bit of the Stomp. Instead of?a long report about every […]
Read MoreIt seems to take longer and longer for the doctor to get into the exam room when you visit your doctor’s office. What do you do to pass the time? This is what?we did. You can click for close ups 🙂 Technorati tags: Gloves on Heads
Read MoreIn order to analyze the effectiveness of a system, we look at it from several different viewpoints. What are those viewpoints? What questions do we ask in order to have a nice overall picture of a system? These are some dimensions I look at when during analysis and some typical questions I like to ask. Performance and Scalability The […]
Read MoreDarryl Taft wrote a nice article for eWeek on software modeling at Microsoft. This article takes an awfully complicated subject and comes very close to explaining it in a way that passes my mom test. What’s my mom test? You can probably infer already that my mom test is whether or not a technical issue can be distilled […]
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