Feierabend was burgled! Yup someone broke into the pub that is a part of my building. This South Lake Union area, while developing nicely, still is prone to lots of burgles. Car burgles, Apartment Burgles, you name it burgles.
See all the pictures on flickr
Fractal: A mathematically generated pattern that is reproducible at any magnification or reduction.
At a seminar called Lean-Agile Software Testing – Practices and Challenges Jean McAuliffe described lean/agile processes as a fractal. She was talking about applying agile principles at each iteration of development. Principles are hard to […]
Oh, the internet… how you provide me with so much goodness.
Answer to be provided at Friday, January 26, 2007 at 12:00 Noon Seattle time.
Update: Thanks TTop
My coworker Brad wrote to me last night with the first correct answer saying:
movie = “The Blindman“. I can’t believe I wasted part of my life on […]
We’re unveiling the public release of “Testing on the Toilet”: one of Google’s little secrets that has helped us to inspire our developers to write well-tested code. We write flyers about everything from dependency injection to code coverage, and then regularly plaster the bathrooms all over Google with each episode, almost 500 stalls […]
In an IM to a coworker today I wrote this:
Wes says: Do you know where I can get a life sized cardboard cutout made? Wes says: I want to get a couple of myself to place around the city. COWORKER says: […]
My old car has died. The spectacura went out in an impressive dukes of hazard barrel-roll off a cliff. It will be missed.
Update: I gave this car away several months ago and I wasn’t the one driving. I’m just sad to see my old car get totaled.
All persons present […]
I will be attending Agile Open Northwest January 30th and 31st. If you’ll be in Portland, OR then and would like to meet, let me know.
I’ve just added more non-sense to my daily feeds… from Things My Boyfriend Says is this gem.
Update: After actually reading more than the bunny rabbits entry, the site might not be safe for work.
Bunny rabbits. e: I’d get a bunny if they weren’t so stupid. […]
I think a CEO blog should be natural and professional or non-existent. Seth Godin gives us a non-blogging example:
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well, and I think the standards for a multimillionaire CEO announcing a major new venture ought to be pretty high. When you should stop […]
It’s time to re-examine those long running batch jobs. Could you partition the data to allow for MapReduce? I bet you can. I know I’ve always wanted an affordable way to fire up 30 servers and run MapReduce operations against giant datasets, it’s confirmed; I’m a dork.
Tom […]