Archive for October, 2007

BritSpeak #3: “Menu mooching”

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

So this is only BritSpeak because my brother Richard and I made it up while sitting in Becky's Diner in Portland, Maine. Becky's has a largish menu with lots of options. Not something I'm keen on dealing with before about 6pm. But diners are a must when visiting the East coast. Richard, after ...

Appliances and science projects

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Last night I tried to sync my iRiver H10 20Gb with all my latest music for an upcoming trip to Boston. Easy right? It's an appliance. Plugging in the H10 resulted in the familiar ping of Windows XP (SP2) finding a new USB device and then... nothing happens. The H10 worked fine ...

Off to Beantown

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

I'm of to Bostin and New England for a few days to see my family and the leaves turn. So no posts for a few days. I'll be taking my Nikon D40 and 18-200mm VR lens so hopefully there's be some nice pictures for the picture gallery when I get ...

Syncing to the last known good build

Monday, October 8th, 2007

How do I allow developers to automatically sync to the last known good (LKG) version of the source code? The simplest algorithm for doing this appears to be: Step 1: Update the CI build to automatically write the build time to a file outside the build tree each timethe build succeeds. ...

Scrum Bestiary – The Seagull

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

It's Sunday so how about something somewhat humorous... So we all know about Scrum's pigs and chickens but what about seagulls? Seagulls, like chickens, are birds. But unlike a chicken seagulls are noisier and tend to crap all over the place. Seagulls like lots of other large birds don't live in ...