The One Minute Commute

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Zach Grossbart has published the first few chapters of his book “The One Minute Commute” online. The chapters look very promising and I’m looking forward to reading the book as it is published. Chapter 1 - Introduction The Plan of The One ...

Its True… Your Intestines Can Do Math

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Or… The evils of hope and the endless battle of crushing math versus the reasoning power of our lower bowels. We’ve all been there at one point or another. Half way through an iteration and things aren’t going quite as planned. The team of four engineers has two weeks left on their ...

San Francisco Agile Meetup: Using Agile with Large, Geographically Dispersed Development Teams

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk this evening. I had  an awesome time and loved the amount of enthusiasm and the great questions. As you may have noticed… there’s a lot of material to cover. Here’s some references to more content which adds depth. If you have any ...

Moving To A Distributed Version Control System

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

I’ve been using Subversion to host my code on a Windows Home Server box for the past year or so. At about the same time distributed version control systems (DVCS) started to become the “hot new thing”. Git, Mercurial and Bazaar with their associated community hubs; GitHub, BitBucket and Launchpad ...

I’m Speaking to San Francisco Agile Meetup Group

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Looks like I’ll be speaking in San Francisco in February on the 22nd.  Using Agile with Large, Geographically Dispersed Development Teams Distributed and large scale development are a fact of life for many teams. Unfortunately most agile methodologies or approaches assume that ...