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Bleary-eyed ruminations of a work at home Father.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Another Free Event: MS Dogfood II Conference

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The good folks at Microsoft’s Columbus office are putting on the second annual Dogfood conference. It’s a FREE two-day event loaded with con...
Friday, October 16, 2009

CodeMash Sessions are Live!

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If you’re not following CodeMash on Twitter, you may have missed the announcement that the session list for CodeMash 2010 is up. The sel...
Monday, October 05, 2009

Writing a Good Session Abstract

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If you’ve got a great idea for a conference session, you absolutely have to spend time getting your abstract right before you submit it. You...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Running an Event on the Cheap

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I’ve been a part of teams organizing a pretty good number of developer community events here in the Heartland over the last few years. I’ve ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Software Engineering 101 Conference Wrap Up

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Wow. 90 or so folks showed up yesterday for an amazing event: the Software Engineering 101 Conference . Everyone seemed pretty fired up, ene...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Leading from the Front

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In my Leadership 101 talk I really harp on the importance of leading from the front, particularly as you get higher up in an organization. ...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Upcoming Speaking Gigs

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I’ve got a couple speaking engagements coming up over the next two months: 23 Sept: Software Engineering 101 Conference . I’m helping o...

Busted “Contact Me” Link Fixed

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Doh! I missed the mail that my 2idi wasn’t providing my contact service any more, so the “Contact Me” link on my sidebar hasn’t worked for, ...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Book Review: Living Green, The Missing Manual

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Living Green, the Missing Manual by Nancy Conner, pub by O’Reilly, ISBN 0596801726. This book can be preachy and a bit breathless in some...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Great Discussion Podcast on Deep Fried Bytes

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During devLink a few folks from the region’s community were gabbing about a variety of topics, including burnout, motivation, FUD, and a nu...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Plz Use Yur Brain. KTHXBAI (DNR #476)

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Last Saturday I was lucky enough to participate on a devLink discussion panel on “Has Software Development Gotten Too Complex?” The panel w...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Manually Killing Terminal Service Connections

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Problem: You’re trying to RDP to a remote server and you get the message “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed co...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Don’t Move the Table

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Last weekend I was at devLink in Nashville. On Thursday I was trying to finish up some work and looked for a quiet spot, so I headed to the...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Registration Open for SWE 101 Conference!

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Go sign up now for the Software Engineering 101 conference . What is the SWE 101 conference? Go read my previous post on it !
Friday, August 21, 2009

Save The Date! Software Engineering 101 on 9/23/09

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UPDATE! Registration is open here . A few great speakers and I are working to put on a unique event on Wednesday, 9/23: Software Engineer...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Two Book Reviews

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Here are reviews for two books I’ve recently run through. Stand Back and Deliver by Pollyanna Pixton, et. al. Pub by Addison Wesley, ISBN...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Slides & Thoughts From devLink

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I gave my “Three Tips to Improve Your Process” talk at devLink last week. You can find the deck here . Thanks to the folks who attended! ...
Monday, August 10, 2009

eRubyCon Slides & Summary

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I was at eRubyCon this last week, courtesy of Joe O’Brien and the great folks at EdgeCase who invited me to speak. This was my first co...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Looking for a QA Job? Come Work for Telligent!

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UPDATED: It’s now December, 2010 and I’ve got another open position on my team! Everything below still applies. Contact info is at the bott...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Is Software Engineering Dead? (Process, not Construction)

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Tom DeMarco, author of the seminal book Peopleware has written a short, interesting article Software Engineering, An Idea Whose Time has Co...
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I'm the owner/principal of Guidepost Systems. I help lots of great folks figure out what works and what doesn't in the world of delivering quality software -- something I'm very passionate about. I'm also a Father trying to remain sane while trying to build great software, herd my kids around, fix school lunches and handle the yardwork. (And roast great coffee!)
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