I have been trying to concentrate on technical reading lately to no avail, I’m afraid. We are going through planning for our new fiscal year at work and this amount of paperwork leaves me brain dead at the end of each day. Strategic planning, team planning, goal statements, performance appraisals, budgeting, yeesh. You can see why […]
Read MoreThere is something about myself that I have finally admitted and it scares me. I find video games difficult and the newer ones are confusing. What with the perfect graphics, the heavy shadows, the complicated controls, the gory details and whatnot. Good grief. I like video games but do not own a Wii, an XBox, a […]
Read MoreAirplanes are Safer than Helicopters When I was in the military, we joked about jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. Ironically, everyone seemed to agree that it was safer to jump from a helicopter than to ride in one. I finally heard from an old NCO the best explanation for what we all knew instinctively. Airplanes […]
Read MoreI would like to thank Dr. Rob and his Systems Architecture class down at Boise State for hosting me today in our discussion about Scrum. I have genuinely come to appreciate the freedom and effectiveness of Scrum and I enjoy the opportunity to evangelize it.
Read MoreMicrosoft announced that the the new friendly name for WPF/E is Silverlight. Thank goodness, that was a mouthful. Microsoft Silverlight is not to be confused with the Silverlight Witch Coven of North Carolina, Terry Silverlight, the drummer so bold as to have released 2 solo albums of all-drum-all-the-time, or the Silverlight Dog Kennel of Romania. The […]
Read MoreScenario 1 The Scrum team is ending a 3 week iteration developing a custom CRM for your company. Despite the fact that no one should be writing yet another CRM, the team is excited to show the shiny new forms in Sprint Review. The one developer who can be cajoled into speaking opens the application and the AJAX-enabled […]
Read MoreIt is interesting to note the volunteer opportunities available to people with I.T. related skills. That such opportunities exist speaks to the ubiquity of computers and software in our daily lives. Computing has become so normalized as to be considered a necessity for economic growth, job searching, educational opportunity, and other services. Here are some local volunteer opportunities in […]
Read MoreA friend and colleague of mine has a favorite interview code problem that I think is pretty fun, too. I think it is simpler than FizzBuzz, but is reasonably effective at prompting discussion. The problem is quite simply, “Please go the whiteboard and reverse a string.” I love the ambiguity of that problem. Do you I get the string in a […]
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