I took part in DesignFest my first day at OOPSLA, and it was much fun and very interesting seeing all of the subtle dynamics that were at work. One of the major ideas that I gleaned from the experience was this: a good design can only come about from how well the people involved can [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Arrival In Portland
October 21st, 2006
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Just got into Portland for OOPSLA last night after a very long flight. My flight stopped over in Pheonix to switch flights, and it turned out that the pilots for the next flight were coming in on a flight that had been delayed, so I had to wait for an hour and a half before [...]
Sometimes the “Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work” is Simpler Than You Think
October 18th, 2006
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Recently I’ve been hard at work hacking up a new plugin for fitnesse to allow for live table editing, using xmlhttprequest to fetch raw pages and persist the data in fitnesse. For the moment, I’ve wanted to stick with pure javascript without writing custom responders or anything, but ran into a small hurdle. I could [...]
Implementing Lean Software Development: Chapter 1
October 3rd, 2006
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Today I received my copy of Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by Mary and Tom Poppendieck, and so far it has been a decent read. The first chapter is rather interesting as it takes an approach of how we got to agile software development, startling by taking a tour of the evolution [...]
