Archive for the ‘technical’ Category

Busy busy bee

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

I meant to write a longish post today about my experiences this weekend with Rails - Lacie was out of town for the weekend, so I didn't have much to do except read, run, and code. Instead of writing that post, however, I've spent my evening working on a ...

Energy and inspiration

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

My new job takes a lot of my creative energy; that's why it took me over three months after I started to get back to blogging. In the last week, though, I've had a resurgence of extra-office energy, and I think I can pin the source down to a couple ...

Addicted - to testing!

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

I've been coding for a while now - since I was 8 or so, in one form or another. No single practice has ever hit me as hard as unit testing, though. I first started my flirtation with unit testing back in 2003. I was using classic ASP and, on the ...

Agile in DC?

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

Here's a question for the oh-so-many readers of this blog - do any of you know anyone working with agile methodologies (XP, Scrum, Feature-Driven Development, etc.) in the Washington, DC area? I'm looking to have lunch with someone with that sort of experience.... (emails are preferred on this one - ...

Jakob Nielsen - Luddite?

Friday, December 17th, 2004

Somebody tell me why Jakob Nielsen doesn't have an RSS feed. I mean come on - if there was ever somebody for whom content was paramout, it's Jakob. I haven't been to useit for a while, but when I wandered over today I was just astounded at the lack of ...