Steve Freeman

The system I’ve been working on for almost a year went live this weekend. Hooray!

We had a few changes to make on Monday, which we turned around within the day, and since then (touch wood) no show-stoppers. The changes have mainly been to do with discovering effects on downstream systems that we haven’t been able […]

I’m at the AYE with a number of friends and colleagues, such as Duncan Pierce, Alan Francis, and J. B. Rainsberger.

The first session I went to was about how introverts and extroverts interact (badly) and how to mitigate that; of course, the IT industry is heavily biased towards introversion. It turns out that introverts and […]

Create your own Web 2.0 company.

My new company is Infelino which specializes in rss-based shopping via instant messaging.

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I seem to have ended up committed to quite a lot in November. Here goes:

2nd, Story testing with FIT, BCS SPA Event, London. With Mike Hill
18th, Responsibility-driven development, test-first. XP Day Benelux, Rotterdam
28th, Getting to know your customer, XP Day London. With Andy Pols
29th, Before Iteration Zero, XP Day London. With Nat Pryce
29th, Storytelling with […]

I’m at JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark

With Nat Pryce, I’ll be presenting our talk on Embedded Domain Specific Languages

Today I went to the funeral of Miles Whitehead, who died of cancer.

A lovely man, very funny and very bright. I wish I’d spent more time with him.

One of the features of getting older is that you start to experience the metaphors we use in everyday speech, like “being left holding the baby”.

On December 26th, I was in Penang, Malaysia checking into a solid Victorian hotel in Georgetown, having travelled over from the other side of the island. While we were waiting, […]

So, a whole bunch of dads have contributed to a Gridblog on the question, What advice would you have liked to receive when you were a new or expectant father?. Here goes…

Allow enough time You cannot believe how much time kids take up, especially early on, until they learn to entertain themselves (then you have […]