I threw my hat into the ring this morning with this submission to the Agile 2009 conference (http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/node/579). Please check it out and submit any comments you may have as I refine the proposal.
Agile 2009 submission: Functional Testing Flex
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Tags: agile, agile 2009, Conferences, flex, functional testing, java, RIA, testing
Categories : Conferences
CodeRetreat #1 retrospective
26 01 2009
This past Saturday we held the first in what I’m hoping many CodeRetreats. What is CodeRetreat you ask? CodeRetreat started as a discussion between Nayan Hajratwala, Patrick Wilson-Welsh, and Corey Haines at CodeMash 2009 just a few short weeks ago about creating a meetup where developers could come together and practice good software craftsmanship with the guidance of a few select tomes of good software craftsmanship such as Bob Martin’s Clean Code. Many of us are stuck wading through legacy code day to day in our normal 9 to 5 jobs and don’t get the opportunity to hone our skills and that is exactly what the CodeRetreat is about. That and the opportunity to get to pair with great minds like Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson, Bill Wake, Corey Haines, and J.B. Rainsberger, to name a few. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: clean code, coderetreat, craftsmanship, java, kata, Ruby
Categories : Conferences
RubyMine, my new favorite Ruby IDE
22 01 2009Recently JetBrains decided to build a Ruby specific IDE called RubyMine based on their very awesome IntelliJ IDEA product. They already had a very nice Ruby plugin for IntelliJ which in my opinion was the best Ruby integration for any IDE (sorry NetBeans fanboys), but decided to package a stripped down version of IntelliJ specifically for Ruby. Now don’t get me wrong, when I say stripped down, I definitely don’t mean stripped down in features, because this IDE rocks. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: ide, jetbrains, rails, Ruby, tools
Categories : Ruby
Flex on Java to now leverage AppFuse
18 01 2009Well the 2/3 review of the book I’m currently writing, Flex on Java, has just been wrapped up and we’ve gotten some wonderful feedback from our reviewers, both good and not so good. I’m learning that the not so good reviews are sometimes more useful in helping us to refine and improve the book in the long run. More than one reviewer had commented, and I had started to believe this myself before the review even began, was that the sample application that we had decided to use was too cumbersome and involved too many workarounds to make it work. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: appfuse, book, flex, java, RIA
Categories : Writing
A Very Happy Un-Birthday To Me
12 01 2009I have been more and more interested in podcasting/webcasting/screencasting over the last year or so, and so I decided over the weekend to finally take the dive and buy a high quality USB microphone to do voice capture. Here’s (http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1904) my new toy that should be arriving later this week.
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Tags: audio, podcasting, screencasting, toys
Categories : Rant
My New Year’s resolutions
5 01 2009Wow, it’s the new year already. A time for everyone to make new years resolutions to make promises that they’ll not keep. This year I’ve decided to actually make a few resolutions for myself, even though I usually don’t make new years resolutions. I’ve put a lot of thought into these and decided to not make the same resolutions that everyone else does about eating better and getting more exercise, as evident by the sudden influx of people at the gym these past few days, I’ve already resolved to doing that a long time ago and don’t need a special occasion to give me an excuse. Rather I’ve made a couple of hopefully attainable goals for myself in this new year. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: book, gaming, new year, Rant
Categories : Rant
