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On Thursday, February 21, I attended New York XP & Agile and presented Strangle Your Legacy Code.

In late January, I was at DevOpsDays NYC in midtown Manhattan to present Run Your @wn Email Server!

Happy 2019!

Yesterday I co-facilitated the Brooklyn instance of Global Day of Coderetreat.

On Thursday, October 25 in Manhattan, I presented a Mob Programming Workshop at the first ever joint meetup of CTO School and NYC Lean/Kanban.

After my fourth and final tour stop, we decamped to Mallorca for a week.

[Update: Thorsten wrote a few words about our week together.

On Thursday, August 30 in Munich, I attended Munich Software Craft and presented Strangle Your Legacy Code.

I’d been hearing great things about the International Conference for Software Craft and Testing for years.

[Update: Barney wrote a few words about our week together.

On Wednesday, August 15 in Newcastle, England, I attended NEBytes and presented Strangle Your Legacy Code.

On Tuesday, August 14 in Edinburgh, I attended Lean Agile Edinburgh and presented Programming for Non-Programmers.

What’s pymsgauth?

[Update: Alex wrote a few words about our week together.

On Thursday, July 19 in Braunschweig, I attended Java User Group Ostfalen and presented “The When-To-Stop Kata”.

[Update: Patrick wrote a few words about our week together.

On Thursday, July 12 in Nürnberg I attended Hackerkegeln and presented “Strangle Your Legacy Code”.

pkgsrcCon is an annual conference about the challenges of cross-platform open-source package management, focusing on the development and usability of pkgsrc.

My coding tour has officially begun!

At SPA Software in Practice in London, I joined Tim Bourguignon yesterday for “How Would YOU Call This Workshop?”

On arriving at Agile Coach Camp Germany in Rückersbach (about an hour outside Frankfurt) I could already feel a difference from my experiences of US Coach Camps.

At the Mallorca Software Craft meetup last night, 20 people played at Guy Royse’s Vending Machine Kata.

I had a great time at last year’s Big Apple Scrum Day presenting with Ryan Ripley in my home market, so it was an honor to be invited back to contribute to the 2018 BASD proceedings in a new way: as part of the Coaches Clinic, where attendees could talk t…

Planned stops London (mini-stop), July 5: UK Government Digital Service Erlangen, July 9-13: MATHEMA/Redheads Braunschweig, July 16-20: BREDEX Edinburgh, August 13-17: Canon Medical Research Nürnberg and München, August 27-31: codecentric While in town, I…

After two years of ruing my inability to attend the Mob Programming Conference, last week I finally made it.

Thanks to the power of the internet you can buy me a fancy coffee, but I’d much rather treat you, dear reader, to the beverage of your choice — in person.

A few weeks ago, I returned to work.

Photo by Steve Moubray At the Agile Coaching DC meetup tonight, about 50 people participated in my “Behavior-Driven Development for Everyone” exercise.

Etymologically, “fluency” is about flow.

In mid-August, the week after the big Agile conference, I led a “Behavior-Driven Development for Everyone” webinar for the Toronto Agile Community.

We aren’t usually operating at peak mental capacity over here.

Our child arrived a week ago, at 6 pounds 6 ounces on 6/6.

Previously This is the eighth in a series of “Nifty and Minimally Invasive qmail Tricks”, following qmail + SMTP AUTH + SSL + TLS - patches qmail + badrcptto - patches qmail + NetBSD nightly maintenance qmail + IMAP-before-SMTP qmail + spam filtering qmail

Then and now A few years ago, after a long stretch of not feeling heard in my job, I resolved to change that, starting with getting a different kind of job.

Previously This is the seventh in a series of “Nifty and Minimally Invasive qmail Tricks”, following qmail + SMTP AUTH + SSL + TLS - patches qmail + badrcptto - patches qmail + NetBSD nightly maintenance qmail + IMAP-before-SMTP qmail + spam filtering qma…

Photo by Jason Dinkelmann At Agile and Beyond in Ann Arbor, Jeff Hoover and I facilitated a workshop on effective collaborative software development for distributed teams (including remote pairing and mobbing).

Photo by Faye Thompson Ryan Ripley and I gave a talk at Big Apple Scrum Day in New York City.

Agile Coach Camp US is in New York, at Spotify (!).

At the second Agile Alliance Technical Conference, I facilitated a DevOps-themed workshop called “Cross-Platform Full-Stack Deployment with pkgsrc”.

Previously Refactorings for web hosting Automation for web hosting qmail + SMTP AUTH + TLS redux Intro As a sysadmin (”Ops”), I’ve had root responsibilities on NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, and weirder systems like IRIX, AIX, and Linux.

There’s a link in the sidebar where you can buy me a fancy coffee, but I’d much rather treat you, dear reader, to the beverage of your choice.

When solving a problem, we often take advantage of known solutions.

At the second annual PillarCon, I facilitated a workshop called “Fundamentals of C and Embedded using Mob Programming”.

Previously How to learn C (Part 1) Give assignments Since July, when I wrote Part 1, I got married, joined a C-based project, rolled off, joined a new project, and moved house.

My birthday’s next week, which usually grants me license to submit my year-in-review posts a solid month after the deadline (though last year’s came in under the wire).

Previously This is the sixth in a series of “Nifty and Minimally Invasive qmail Tricks”, following qmail + SMTP AUTH + SSL + TLS - patches qmail + badrcptto - patches qmail + NetBSD nightly maintenance qmail + IMAP-before-SMTP qmail + spam filtering Losing

Last night, mere moments from letting me commit a new package of Test::Continuous (continuous testing for Perl), my computer acted as though it knew its replacement was on the way and didn’t care to meet it.

Last week someone asked some Agile coaches for their thoughts on metrics.

At Agile Testing Days, I facilitated a workshop called “DevOps Dojo”.

My first job was in Operations.