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An Adaptive Path Kind of Day

02.15.2006 · Posted in Computers & Technology

SEATTLE — The day started out like any other. No, really, it did. The first thing that happened was I fired up the iPod on my way to the bus stop. I subscribe to a number of podcasts that get downloaded every night so each morning is kinda a surprise – I don’t know what ...

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RUG 2005

07.15.2005 · Posted in Computers & Technology

SEATTLE – Here’s a couple of articles I wrote a few weeks ago while attending the 2005 BMC Remedy User’s Group (RUG). Overall, it was a good event, although now that Remedy is part of BMC, things are changing… 7/13/05: SAN JOSE – Tom Bishop has done a lot of thinking and, despite what Nick ...

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Fedora Core – The Fun Begins

05.22.2005 · Posted in Computers & Technology

22 May 2005 SEATTLE – Things were kinda slow around here on Saturday morning so I decided to inflict some well-deserved pain upon myself by attempting a new Linux install. I had an old mini-tower case that used to run RedHat 7.2 before the primary drive crashed. Between it, and my wife’s old desktop box ...

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When is Software Design Complete (Enough)?

05.17.2005 · Posted in Computers & Technology

17 May 2005 SEATTLE – In this age of agile software development, it’s too easy to rush through design, and begin coding too soon. In addition to the obvious problems (missed requirements, etc), this can also have devestating effects on the development team when they start seeing that development has built something completely different than ...

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