Steve Freeman

Now the dust has settled, I can reflect a little on the recent XpDay Manattan. I was impressed by the quality of the people there, and how everyone pitched in to the OpenSpace sessions, I have vague memories of people trying to sort out J.B.’s life whilst my jet-lag kicked in. Some people came quite […]

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Thoroughly designed? - I mean, not just having a UI layer and a process layer and a business layer and a data layer (which is how a child might draw a software application’s architecture - in crayon).

As of today, XpDay London has about 35 places left. Register soon.

Euan Semple has quoted my comment about the state of ICT education in British Schools (and elsewhere, I expect). In a more imaginative world, our education authorities would have picked up something like MIT’s Athena project, centrally administered to make it more reliable, avoiding the traps of ageing local hardware and inadequate support. The contrast […]

I have an allergic reaction to events called “Summit”, but judging from this posting it sounds like there were some interesting discussions.

Indirectly, I can second the comment on Israel Gat’s presentation, I shepherded a BMC experience report for Agile 2007 and it sounds like a very effective organisational turnaround. The author was so enthusiastic, I […]

I’m back from Citcon. So a few more notes

Things people have shown

crap4j
Buildix The new CruiseControl UI looks much better

The worst build I ever worked saw…
We had a hallway discussion about some of the difficult build environments we’ve worked on over the years. A bad build can be really unpleasant to work […]

A brilliant fable about how good ideas get corrupted. Is your organisation at Phase 8 yet?

via Dave Snowden

The One Laptop Per Child project will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 program for a little while. We all know we want one to play with but haven’t found a good excuse yet. So propose to your management to use them as build monitors, they might even be tax-deductible.

I’m just hoping we can […]

My mobile handset has the unfortunate property that it’s easy to press the wrong buttons when I grab at it to answer a call. I’ve just discovered that I made a rather expensive international call this Summer to the first person in my address book, called Adonica, while responding to someone else. It looks like […]

I just bumped into this service from Blogger. It shows the pictures that are being uploaded in realtime. I don’t know why but it’s addictive.