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I've created a list of my current software projects. The new stuff is all ruby, but not all ruby on rails.
24 February 2008
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<title>A little less conversation a little more action please...</title>
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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 February 2005
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<title>New Year's Resolutions</title>
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I've changed my personal computing setup and the way I do personal projects.
02 January 2005
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<title>Away at XP Day - not reading email until Saturday 27th</title>
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I'm away at <a href="http://www.xpday.org/programme.php" target="_blank">XPDay</a>, 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 November 2004
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<title>You wanna pair with common people?</title>
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She came from Greece. She had a thirst for knowledge.<br />
She studied software at Imperial College.<br />
That's where I--caught her eye.<br />
She told me that her dad did OO.<br />
I said, in that case I'll have a rum and Coca-Cola.<br />
She said fine, and in thirty seconds time she said...
10 November 2004
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<title>"Does Europe really hate him?"</title>
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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 November 2004
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<title>Agile Project Management with Scrum</title>
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The article I wrote for IT Wales about Scrum has just come out...
18 October 2004
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<title>Insightful error message from Unreal Tournament</title>
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Recently when playing unreal tournament, I got this insightful error message...
10 October 2004
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<title>JCollector - JUnit test suite collection.</title>
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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 October 2004
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<title>Joseph Pelrine thinks we kick ass!</title>
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Joseph Pelrine, (Scrum Consultant and Smalltalk Rock star) thinks we kick ass.
15 September 2004
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<title>Curriculm Vitae: Dr. Dafydd Rees</title>
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<title>Fifty Reasons Why We/It/They/Can't Change</title>
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I found this clipping posted on a refrigerator:
20 June 2004
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<title>Software in Seattle</title>
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On the 22nd of May, I left Britain for three weeks to go and help out at our American office in Seattle, WA.
19 June 2004
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<title>Distributed Agile Development and Hibernate</title>
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The article I wrote for IT Wales about Distributed Agile Development has recently appeared. The people behind "Hibernate" explain why their project is successful.
05 May 2004
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<title>Self-Defence for Geeks</title>
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Recently I've noticed several different psychological patterns for handling geeks: "The Journey is the Reward", "Adversarial Development", "Aikido Schedule Negotiation" and "Uniquely Cool".
26 April 2004
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<title>Dell support proves to be excellent</title>
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After getting back from London last week, I opened my laptop case to find that the screen was smashed. When I took out the accidental damange cover I did wonder how effective it would be if I needed it. I got an on-site repair today...
13 April 2004
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<title>Tip for Laptop Users</title>
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If you have a heavy laptop that has a plastic outer casing, consider using a rigid case to protect your machine. My laptop screen now has a nasty, fingertip-sized impact fracture near the centre of the display.
31 March 2004
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<title>"Build failed" music found on the 'net</title>
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Here's the embarassingly funny rap music we use as a "build failed" alert sound.
17 March 2004
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<title>"Captcha" those spammers</title>
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Last year, we were trying to find a way to stop people from sending spam through our website.&nbsp; At the time we had no idea that we were actually implementing a "captcha".
14 March 2004
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