New Software Projects I've created a list of my current software projects. The new stuff is all ruby, but not all ruby on rails. 24 Feb 2008
A little less conversation a little more action please... I'm tired of hearing people go on and on talking and writing about the theory and philosophy of agile methods. Some of the talkers have never done it, and some of the talkers did it a long time ago... It's simple: Do it, or don't. 27 Feb 2005
New Year's Resolutions I've changed my personal computing setup and the way I do personal projects. 02 Jan 2005
Away at XP Day - not reading email until Saturday 27th I'm away at XPDay, and won't be back until Saturday 27th. Chances are that I won't be reading my personal email until then. If you need to contact me you already have my phone number - which is the better way of contacting me until the 27th. 24 Nov 2004
You wanna pair with common people?
She came from Greece. She had a thirst for knowledge.
She studied software at Imperial College.
That's where I--caught her eye.
She told me that her dad did OO.
I said, in that case I'll have a rum and Coca-Cola.
She said fine, and in thirty seconds time she said... 10 Nov 2004
"Does Europe really hate him?" Sometime back in 2002, I found myself waiting for someone in a British research lab. In the reception area a bunch of periodicals were on display. One of them was the Newsweek edition that had a picture of George "Dubya" Bush overlayed in big letters with "Does Europe really hate him?" Underneath the title, someone had attached a yellow post-it... 02 Nov 2004
Agile Project Management with Scrum The article I wrote for IT Wales about Scrum has just come out... 18 Oct 2004
Insightful error message from Unreal Tournament Recently when playing unreal tournament, I got this insightful error message... 10 Oct 2004
JCollector - JUnit test suite collection. I've been toying with the idea of writing a test suite collector for JUnit for some time. I've produced a "first cut" implementation. Here's the story so far. 03 Oct 2004
Joseph Pelrine thinks we kick ass! Joseph Pelrine, (Scrum Consultant and Smalltalk Rock star) thinks we kick ass. 15 Sep 2004
Fifty Reasons Why We/It/They/Can't Change I found this clipping posted on a refrigerator: 20 Jun 2004