I've been actively working on a side project for the past several months and one of the people who has been helping out a bit around the edges wants to learn how to program Ruby on Rails. Since this, like everything I always do, is a distributed, remote effort, an in person teaching effort just does...

I am a member of an 8 person team that is: part of a non profit distributed all over the country trying to get started on a new initiative and find our footing; we are about 1 year old (I've only been here for 2 months) just had our first offsite At the offsite I witnessed a fascinating exercises in...

Simple agile stand ups Here's what I'm up to today Here's what I'm stuck on How can I help anyone else

Really is anything more scary than prioritization???; Picture taken at Pete's Dueling Piano Bar, Austin, TX; Recommended I am a member of an 8 person team that is: part of a non profit distributed all over the country trying to get started on a new initiative and find our footing; we are about 1 yea...

Because side projects are as ridiculous as someone doing push ups on top of a set of dueling pianos; Picture taken at Pete's Dueling Piano Bar, Austin, TX; Recommended Great Googly Moogly! My current side project is almost 10K lines of code in total or at least 5k lines (and yes there are tests, rsp...

I'm in the process of wrapping up a team offsite even though I was ostensibly the lead technologist present, I was not actually prepared in terms of bringing the right technology with me to facilitate the team's needs. The single worst omission was the lack of an HDMI cable without which, I saw thre...

You would think by now that I'd be wise enough to capture the speaker as well as the slide when I take a photo; alas not; sigh. Last week I saw Daniel Wilson speak over at Butler University. Daniel is the author of Robopocalypse, Robogenesis, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where's My Jetpack and m...

Photo courtesy of my boss and friend, Dave Sifry who is in London right now attending MozFest; lucky guy! In the continuing saga of "Once upon a time I did ruby exclusively, now I do python and ruby side by side and I keep being stupid", I have discovered something subtle and interesting about how p...

Photo courtesy of my boss and friend, Dave Sifry who is in London right now attending MozFest; lucky guy! I have a lot of computer skills. I can program in multiple languages, I can remember how to use Norton Utilities for DOS, I can remember how to use Sun OS, I can tell you about not HTML, not XML...

Photo courtesy of my boss and friend, Dave Sifry who is in London right now attending MozFest; lucky guy! Part 1: Heroku Rocks I've been using Heroku quite a lot recently: It is currently running my side project I built a trial project purely to confirm that I knew how to deploy onto Heroku and then...