Archive for June, 2006
We’re currently going through a bit of a development methodology change from fairly heavyweight 3-6mo releases (typically consisting of requirements, development and finally QA) to far more agile 3 week iterations.
It’s looking like each 3 week iteration will be broken down as follows: 70% development, 20% QA and 10% planning, give or take a few [...]
I bought an HDTV-capable plasma TV last Christmas and have been fighting the urge to go full HD until today.
The thought of watching the World Cup in all it’s glory proved too much so I called up Shaw Cable today and scheduled an install for this Thursday. The HDTV box itself costs $510 CDN w/ [...]
Last weekend I attended the very successful first annual Canary Derby in Victoria, BC. The Canary Derby was put together as a fundraiser for the Canary Foundation BC (an initiative to support the early detection of cancer in the Province). By accounts it was an incredibly successful event, raising just a touch under [...]
I’m sure most of you have already caught this, but Google released a Firefox plugin to solve some of the synchronization issues we all face or have faced in the past.
There’s a detailed write-up on the plugin here and FAQs are available.
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings [...]
Came across this site tonight. Basically, it’s a community site for Joel on Software where readers can submit/vote on stories that would likely be of interest to fellow readers.
Normally I wouldn’t link to something like this, but I did read a few of the user-submitted posts and found them to be of fairly high [...]
The Hands-on Lab Sessions have been made available here and the slides here.
Even though I was at the conference there were a number of sessions that I wasn’t able to hit so the notes are a good way to tide one over until the multimedia presentations are put online.
We’re going through a group exercise at work to provide definitions of our companies core values.
Excellence - An overriding commitment to continous improvement and never settling for ‘good enough’.
Pretty succint and captures the essence of what the term means to me. It actually came to me in the middle of a workout at the gym, [...]
Came across this post (and this one as well)the other day and it struck a bit of a chord with me.
Here’s my favourites from each of the sections (Starting, The Idea, People, Product, and Money)
Starting - I’m a pretty big fan of Momentum builds on itself. I’ve been with a start-up for the past [...]
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Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill.
Signup for some random service on the internet
Receive a confirmation email with your account information
or
Forget a password for some random service ...
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Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...
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Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld.
It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...
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An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups.
Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...
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Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously).
Not quite sure how ...
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