Coding Architect

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Since joining ThoughtWorks in 2004 I have enjoyed Pair Programming and my programming skills have improved significantly.

So after having the server nicely set up and ready for configuration I could not resist just ‘getting on with it’.

I have been running my own server for some time now but my requirements have changed and the current underlying VM architecture does not conveniently support what I want to do.

Look after your tools and they will look after you!

A plaintive call to not over use the lovely zoom features in Excel and Word.

This article post ‘The painful truth about age discrimination in tech’ left me a little confused.

If you have been in software development for a while this might make you chuckle :) The Rise And Fall Of Waterfall

I have to confess that I am an IntelliJ Idea fan.

I have found myself drawing the classic cost of change graph a few times recently so thought I would blog about it.

There have been a number of threads recently talking about screen/podcasting and the software required to do a decent job so I thought I would blog about the setup I am using.

If like me you installed WordPress and added some themes before understanding that WordPress has a great way of adding themes through the UI then make sure that you have changed the ownership of the folders containing those themes.

This is my first screencast so all and any comments welcome!!

Over the last month I have been reading Prmodoro Technique Illustrated a fascinating book detailing a technique to apply real focus to problem solving and work in general.

Sam Newman has just published a Brief And Incomplete History Of Build Pipelines which makes interesting reading.

These ideas were presented as at ThoughtWorks Agile Southeast conference in Atlanta.

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Just a quick note to say thank you to everyone who attended my talk on Test Driven Web Development at Agile East this week.

I am going to take part in Prag Pro Wri Mo to find out if I have the inclination and capacity to write or if I am one of those people who would have liked to have written a book.

On Thursday this week I will presenting a talk entitled ‘WebTDD’ at the ThoughtWorks Agile East conference in Conshohocken PA.

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Not that I have seen anything of the city but I now find myself on the west cost after arriving on the east cost just over a week ago.

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I have just discovered that Adium - my favourite IM client for the mac has a new ß version available and now supports IRC so one less application to run every day.

The truly amazing Dan Osman This has got to be one of the ultimate demonstrations of agility, confidence and poise....

I found this whilst going through some old(ish) photos taken in Shenandoah national park in 2006.

Another photo from the trip to Shenandoah.

I have been on a number of Java projects recently and one of the things I end up brewing for each of these projects is some enhanced management of runtime properties.