2 Aug
2005

I Won a T-Shirt

Jared Richardson, one of the authors of Ship It! recently offered up a T-shirt for quotable lines about the book.  I have recently had an exchange with him because of my review of the book and in the end, I got a t-shirt for a comment that I made on the Ship It! mailing list.  […]

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2 Aug
2005

Web Hosting

Where so you get your web hosting? I have been sucking off of the bandwidth of my employer (approved) by using one of my old home machines to serve up this blog and a few other sites.  They let me tap into the DMZ for free and that has been great, but I am tired […]

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22 Jul
2005

Kids

I don’t usually blog about my kids, but I have to tell you this one.  On the plane from Las Vegas to Houston I managed to convince my kids ( 8 and 7 ) that we were actually in  a time machine, thus the difference in the clocks when we landed.  Awesome.

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20 Jul
2005

Airport

I am sitting in the airport with my 2 boys waiting for a flight to Las Vegas, which will start us on our trip to Houston.  We are visiting family back home for a week. Technology is cool.  While I am posting this with my laptop, my 2 boys are listening to a set of rasio programs originally […]

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16 Jul
2005

Ship It!

I am not yet sure who Jared Richardson and Will Gwaltney  are, but they have already changed my life.  Their new book, Ship It! contains everything that I wish I knew about software development exactly 5 years ago. This is the time in my career when I first became responsable for an entire team of developers. To […]

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14 Jul
2005

A Couple of Podcasts That Matter

I have filtering through a maze of podcasts lately and there is a lot of chaff in the wheat when it comes to technical podcasts.  So far, one of my absolute favorite subscriptions is to the IT Conversations Programming feed. There are two absolute gems that I want highlight from that series and they are: […]

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13 Jul
2005

iTunes 4.9 Revisited

I want to hate this application, but I can’t.  I ranted about it the other day with the lack of OPML support and more, but the simple truth is that this has made podcatching far easier for me.  I am considering un-installing my other catchers that I have been using and just using iTunes. Bottom […]

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12 Jul
2005

Time Tracking

Why is this so hard?  We are using MS Project Server and it is no secret that Microsoft got it wrong.  There are 3 things wrong with time tracking via MS Project Server. The web is not the right application platform for this task.  Having the responsiveness of a smart client in this data intensive task […]

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