tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87019197585772908082011-11-28T08:39:30.802+08:00Are we solving the <i>real</i> problem?Ian Spencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850413080078739227noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701919758577290808.post-7847964260807059762009-02-27T13:00:00.001+09:002009-02-27T13:00:38.871+09:00

Some Friday fun http://ping.fm/nDXXG

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Listening to The Killers :)

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Been to the beach, now watching Jaws :/

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Off to Cottesloe Beach on warm summer's evening. Nice.

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RT pragdave BBC: "People were sold mortgages they couldn't afford" NO NO NO. Reporting like that led to the crisis and will prolong it.

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coldplay Support acts for Australia/NZ/Hong Kong/Singapore/Abu Dhabi shows announced - http://ping.fm/GO2Nv Anchorman

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looking at google's chrome

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Coffee with soy milk. Eeewwwk.

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Is starring in kids basketball

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reading some Kanban http://ping.fm/XFDbs

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This Socialism sounds like fun. http://ping.fm/6CUuk

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So margaret says WA is not the place to invest in property

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Going to see M. Lomas at Destiny

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Hhmm. Ansell has reported a 27 per cent rise in first-half profit, helped by strong sales of medical rubber gloves.

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Wishes good luck to ppl in Victoria, AU

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reading about de Bono's six thinking hats

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Just installed tweetdeck on ubuntu. Nice app.

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downloading fawlty towers series to show the kids some real comedy.

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purchased a new lawnmower - Masport. Not much to cut as the lawn is sunburnt :(

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Saw a sign posted on a Bmw, "make me an offer", in the city today.

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Why do people find it necessary to talk on a mobile *and* walk slowly on a busy footpath?

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Anyone know why I get rubbish reception on Channel 7 digital? All other channels are fine.

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Woodside reports 28pc production rise http://ping.fm/cahga

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ran up jacob's ladder tonight. Now paying for it. http://ping.fm/lUuRS

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Watching rafa in oz open. The other guy is trying his best.

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has a dodgy right lateral rectus http://ping.fm/LoBMp

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Trying to design a kitchen. Not just a matter of choosing a few colours.

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Just seen fire in kings pk round mounts bay rd in Perth. Hot day here!

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Going sailing on the swan river

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Watched the dark knight. Excellent movie. Great effects. Well done Heath.

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is listening to some Timbaland

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just ordered a new book "Israel: A History". On backorder.

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A bit sunburnt after day on boat in rockingham

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listening to some podcasts from Stephen Fry and Ricky Gervais

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Just read this article from Alistair Cockburn.  I appreciate his focus on requirements gathering.Alistair.Cockburn.us | Why I still use use cases

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Using RUP As A Scaling Framework For ScrumView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: agile rup)

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is mind mapping

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No, it's not a new coffee blend.Some Thoughtworks people gave a talk today about various Mock frameworks, this was after taking a look at our existing codebase - there is a lot of mocking going on (perhaps too much in some areas) and the mock framework of choice is Easymock.Easymock would have to be (was?) the best framework, well that's until Mockito was introduced. To cut to the chase, it is

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Looks like a good book for developers and analysts. I'll look at getting this for sure.Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns: "I wrote a book with Jesper Kiehn and Christian Vibe Scheller on Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns. We believe the approach described in this book is is going to revolutionize the way the software business applications are developed. This book describes

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This is a great article that discusses the pros/cons of TDD, non TDD.Yet another reason to practice TDD - joeyDotNet Yet another reason to practice TDDThings have been a little slow on the blog lately because this week is the start of a new job/company for me. I'm still getting a feel for things and of course one of the first things I'm trying to get folks interested in is TDD. I have a usual

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Embrace change, your life depends on it: "Let me first start by warning you that this is a fairly long post. I suspect most people won’t make it to the end. However, if you are serious about being happy, I hope you can at least spend 5 mins reading what I have written.It will change your life. I promise.I have been an independent software contractor for several years, performing all sorts of IT

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StarUML - The Open Source UML/MDA PlatformStarUML - The Open Source UML/MDA PlatformStarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational Rose

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I found this an interesting read during my regular blog reads. good on you Simon.VALUEIF you don't repeatedly release softwareinto a production environmentat least once every monththat realises business valuefor a real customer...QUALITYIF you're not paying constant attention to technical excellencewith simple, effective, incremental designdriven by continuous, repeatable automated testingwith

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IT on course to become a profession, says BCS - 24/Jan/2007 - ComputerWeekly.com: "IT is on the way to becoming a profession with the same ethical and professional standards as medicine and the law, MPs and IT practitioners heard recently."Very good article that makes IT people like myself feel a bit more special :-)Would be good to see similar avenues in Australia. Perhaps the ACS are already

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I have a lot of feeds in Google Reader, most worth a read, but one that I always keep a look out for is the Positivity Blog.Some great stuff here from Henrik Edberg, a 26 yr old from Sweden. He is not a specialist, like a pyshologist, just an enthusiast who collects and shares information on how to be positive.Healthy mind, healthy person....

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Company X currently runs a very agile development team, developing a system in java, very TDD, continuous integration (cruise) ... you get the picture.They also have a dedicated test team, very impressive. Of that team, one group called "QA" who are essentially responsible for black-box testing and are very knowledgeable in the business process - they are very close to the user-base. In fact

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Today I attended an Agile Retrospective meeting at Company X. These meetings are held at the end of each project, this is the 2nd one I have had the pleasure to attend ;). There is a structure which actually keeps it interesting. Firstly you rate yourself from 1-5 being (I’m trying to recall the descriptions - some are made up slightly but I hope you get the point) 1. Just a smiler2. Will

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Another agile experience....At "Company X" each project has:- 1 PM (manages resourcing and release plan, but very hands-off, may be managing many projects)- 1 BA (the customer)- 1 Tech Analyst (reports to Technology but liaises very closely with the BA, is the conduit to the BA)- 1 Lead Developer (manages the iteration)- n Developers (liaise closely with Tech Analyst)- 4 QA (report to the

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