Inventing on Principle
Saw this talk which was forwarded on STS .. simply brilliant! Make sure you watch till the end- it's not all about programming.
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- 5 Things that will make your Agile project fail
A good read and something I've experienced in some projects which sometimes need addressing: http://agile.dzone.c... - Great SeaJUG meeting on 5/21 - Spring!
We've got a great presentation lined up for the Seattle Java User's group on 5/21 at Expedia on Spring tech in case you are interested. Check out http://www.seajug.or... - Intro to Continuous Delivery
Check out a video of me and Gabe talking about Continuous Delivery. http://vimeo.com/657... - cool stuff
despite how you may feel about js :) http://goo.gl/bw6ue - Can't recommend System76 enough
I had blogged about my awesome made for linux system76.com laptop a while back. But the support they have exhibited in providing detailed painless upgrade instructions to the latest version of ubuntu just reinforces my belief that they are one of the ... - Boys and their toys
If you are ever interested in dabbling in small form factor embedded linux devices you may want to check these bad boys out (some I own, the rest I plan to get eventually :) ouya cubieboard OLinuXino wandboard raspberry pi mk802 ug802 cotton ... - TED Conference in Vancouver
It appears that this year's TED conference is happening in my wife's hometown -Vancouver, BC. I'd highly recommend going to it if you can. http://www.huffingto... - LinuxFest Northwest in April
heads up -http://linuxfestnor... - New Linux laptop
Used to be back in the day you cut your linux teeth by buying a desktop, dual booting ( or VM'ing later on) windows and working out all the kinks to get a lean mean linux machine setup. If you really wanted a challenge you bought something like a sony ... - Netflix freezing in Windows running on a VM?
I've been a very long time Netflix user, especially streaming since I rarely get the luxury of watching movies on TV. Hollywood and other players make it a little difficult to watchnetflix on Linux machines. Apparently they're more scared of the small ... - opengrok
I am working on a little project to setup a tool to index, x-ref and provide search to multiple source repositories running in the gigs and came to know of this awesome little server side java project which uses lucene under the hood called opengrok. I ... - Android
I've been playing around with Android pretty much since the start ( almost got hired at TMobile a couple of years ago when I wrote a yelp app for the G1 while interviewing there - in retrospect, probably a good thing that I didn't end up there :). Luckily ... - Software KVM Switch
Really cool x-platform software kvm switch: http://synergy-foss.... - The Great Canadian Motorcycle Adventure
I've been planning a motorcycle trip with some folks for quite a few years now. The stars finally aligned and we were able to do it! Left Seattle for Surrey on friday, spent the night at my uncle's place and started out Sat morning. Dad had rented a ... - Looking for a few good devs ...
I am in the process of putting together a crack ( no, not the smoking variety :) team to work at the intersection of android, java & c/c++. If you or anyone you know is interested in working with me on a really cool project utilizing productive ... - Adventures in puppet land
Some key learnings from a past project utilizing puppet to do infrastructure management in case you're interested :) puppet's DSL is imperative and not procedural. This can be somewhat frustrating to folks who are used to procedural languages. It ... - Help support my sister's charity/rainier climb!
So my sister Jasmine has become quite the mountain climber these days. She's climbed things like an 18,000 ft+ volcano down in Mexico, a couple of 20,000 or so ft peaks in the Himalayas and probably others she hasn't told us about cuz she probably doesn't ... - Release AutomationI
I've been looking into Release Automation & automated infrastructure managementlately. Here's some useful tools you may want to check out in this space: http://vagrantup.com... - GUI for working with keystore files in Java
Although the command line is always available for working with Java keystore files, I've found this GUI easier to work with. It runs via JNLPas a bonus! - RefCardz!
Free reference cards on technologies in case you're interested - enjoy :) http://refcardz.dzon...
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