Steve Freeman

We’ve just sorted out the venue (after a couple of bumps along the way) for this year’s event. No details yet, but watch this space.

Joseph Pelrine and I are involved in (or is that “committed to”?) starting up a Narrative Inquiry project with the Agile Alliance under their Agile Narratives programme. This one will be done jointly with Cognitive Edge using the Cynefin approach, here’s their announcement.

I’ve started a Yahoo Group for people who are interested.

What is […]

Thanks to Naresh Jain I’ll be presenting a tutorial/worshop on TDD with Mock Objects at Agile India this Sunday, 25th.
Presenting this far from home is still a thrill for me and, providing I can hold up against the jet lag, I’m very interested to see how our material will be received.

This is my first post on the new site after my move from Truemesh.

Let me know if it doesn’t work on your desktop.

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Nat Pryce and I have won the Agile Alliance’s Gordon Pask award.

We weren’t at the ceremony (since we weren’t expecting to win), but we wrote a response for the event:

We are pleased and very honoured to receive one of this year’s Gordon Pask awards. We really didn’t expect it which is why, unfortunately, neither […]

Once again, XpDay went well. We sold out and, as far as I can tell, people had a fine time. Glaziers’ Hall isn’t quite as memorable a building as Ironmongers’, but we needed the extra space and they have a view of the river.

I missed a lot of sessions that looked interesting because I had […]

As reported by The Onion

Fifth year in a row.

The fourth XpDay London is fast approaching (25/26 November). Book before it fills up.

We have another hot programme this year, with one presenter coming from as far away as Australia, and attendees coming from Scandanavia. I’m very pleased that we have two high-powered keynote and masterclass speakers: Tom Gilb is a pioneer […]

Tuesday

Brian Marick is collecting stories from the history of the discipline. He asked Guy Steele to talk about the writing of the Lambda papers. Guy talked about how he and Sussman just kinda did a few things, noticed a couple of simplifications and came up with Scheme. He reminded me of Robert Nagel, the […]