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Archive for February, 2009
Tweets for 2009-02-14
Posted by CobyR on February 14th, 2009Crystal Clear Distilled (Revisiting)
Posted by CobyR on February 7th, 2009‘’(Extract from ‘’Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams‘’) Alistair Cockburn, 2004 ‘’
‘’At the end, it is time to roll it all back up again: What is the core of Crystal Clear, and what are the add-on practices that get the team farther into the safety zone? This chapter is very short.’‘
Crystal Clear is [...]
acts_as_conference
Posted by CobyR on February 6th, 2009I should be in Orlando Florida right now, helping record acts_as_conference.
ATTi is a Platinum sponsor for this conference and one of my Sr. Engineers, Lori Holden will be presenting on ActiveORM, part of the merb + rails => Rails 3 project.
Instead I spent the day doing an internal web-cast of our (ATTi) all hands meeting. [...]
ACM
Posted by CobyR on February 6th, 2009http://member.acm.org/~randquistcp
Digging around the ACM site, I have had a membership for several years, and utilized it on and off, just got the latest issue of Communications of the ACM.
“Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory” – great article, unfortunately I can’t link to it, and you can’t access it online unless you’re an ACM member.
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Posted by CobyR on February 4th, 2009“It is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones. The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is that we don’t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking about time as their most valuable resource.”
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Reid Hastie, [...]
Playing with Widgets
Posted by CobyR on February 1st, 2009It seems that the folks over at http://hyfn.blogspot.com/ have been creating some interesting micro-sites or widgets for some of there clients as of late.
Check out this one:
A nice job at putting these together.