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Thanks to Skillsmatter and the Poppendieck’s for putting on this wonderful free talk up in Farringdon and I look forward to coming to more of these in the future! I feel very lucky to have heard Mary & Tom Poppendieck’s talk this evening. Continue reading...

While trying to get volunteers from our development team excited about delivering some technical presentations to the rest of the team I created a list of talks that I would like to hear. Continue reading...

So I read a great article by Wil Shipley about success and the types of software start-ups. He has this wonderful tortured analogy about whether your are behaving like a farmer ("You husband the soil to ensure that it’ll keep providing for you for years and years") or a miner ("You’ll make a big score, then the land will be spent, and you move on, leaving an unusable crater.") Continue reading...

If there was 1 thing I wish I had learnt earlier in my professional career it would be: "read more blogs and watch/ listen to more podcasts/webcasts." Of course neither of these things were around when I started my career. ("Geroff my lawn," etc. etc.) But still I was late into the game and playing catch up with these tremendous resources. Continue reading...

My blog looks different again? I've not posted anything in months? Continue reading...

Now, I'm going to have to admit something: I'm still a Linq beginner. But every day I use it I love it more and more. Continue reading...

So I was reviewing the license agreement for the fantastic Red Gate SQL Compare tools and I came across this: Continue reading...