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Who am I? I work for ThoughtWorks as a technical consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. I make things better, mostly by incremental improvements to code quality, architectural fitness, stability, and safe rapid deployments.
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Scared little boy. Australian Architecture Forum 2007
So I’m presenting at the AAF in Sydney June 27th, and Melbourne June 29th. The topic is about dealing with legacy software, peppered with learnings from a couple of client projects. It’s a topic I feel strongly about and an … Continue reading
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Melbourne Ruby User Group
I recently went along to a meeting of the Melbourne Ruby User Group, the first user group type of meeting I’ve been to for years. ThoughtWorks now hosts the meetings and supplies pizza and soft drinks, so I really have … Continue reading
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Waterfall 2006 – International Conference on Sequential Development
I’m definitely going. Agile is so 2005. There’s some gems: FIT Testing In When You Can; Otherwise Skip It by Ward Cunningham User Stories and Other Lies Users Tell Us by Mike Cohn hee hee.
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Drool
Okay I’m convinced. I still find our current Powerbook G4 a bit painful. But my next notebook will be one of these. Wipes chin.
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Shiny
I’m writing this on my wife’s 15″ powerbook. I hate it. I love it – it’s all shiny and sleek. I hate it – it’s soo slow – I mean how can it really be that slow to run apps, … Continue reading
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