Steve Freeman

There’s been some chatter on the interweb recently, from Ron Jeffries and Martin Fowler for example, on the risks of a team adopting
only the ceremonial parts of Agile, without also adopting the “hard” technical practices as well.

Luckily for people with access to London (UK), we have a track at this year’s QCon to address [...]

Nice post

Unfortunately, math understanding seems to follow the DNA pattern. We’re taught the modern, rigorous definition and not the insights that led up to it. We’re left with arcane formulas (DNA) but little understanding of what the idea is. [...] not all starting points are equal. The right perspective makes math click — and the [...]

In a previous life I took a music degree in Bass Trombone, which is a discipline that’s even more geeky and with a worse gender balance than Software (see this meeting if you don’t believe that’s possible). Over the course of the degree, I raised my bar from Enthusiastic to Not-too-embarrasing-to-appear-in-public. In the spirit of [...]