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It's been a long week and I'm happy to finally reach the weekend....
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I've always been a sporadic blogger with multiple blogs. Ironic, isn't it? Lately, I've been posting more at my other blog , although I'm far from prolific over there. One problem is that if I have 2 blogs, how will they be different?...
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2007 was a year of change for me and I'm looking forward to 2008. By far, the biggest change that happened last year was that I lost 97 lbs. I'm still not totally where I want to be but I'm darn close. And actually, if I stayed at this weight...
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Is this just another Agile blog? Hmmm... Deming and Ohno over Ward and Kent? Customers over developers? Sounds different (and interesting). Release early, release often Jim McCarthy? Interesting - I referred to the VC++ in the mid-90's in my previous...
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I'm not at home right now and I'm using a computer that isn't mine so this post contains notes to myself from reading the posts on the Lean Software Engineering blog . About the authors I remember Corey Ladas from his posts on the internal...
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Book #2 is Manage It! by Johanna Rothman . For this one, I wrote an Amazon review....
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Last year on my birthday I decided to count the number of books I read during the year. Somewhere in the middle, I lost track. Well last week was my birthday so I figured I'd try it again this year. The first book for this year is a little book from...
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I used to have more but now I'm down to 2 blog, this one and the one at http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih . Why 2? Well, this one is on my private web site and the other one is Microsoft provided. I haven't thought too much about what to do with each...
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This morning I'm listening to an album I haven't listened to in while and I have to admit that right now, it's my favorite album. That album is Chrome and the artist is the group Catherine Wheel . Catherine Wheel was never a mega-super popular...
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(via the Braidy Tester ) This is very cool. I wonder why I didn't hear about it internally?...
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I guess if I have to identify myself as belonging to some group, it would have to be the Context-Driven School . The ideas behind this group resonate with me because they avoid the dogmatic, the prescribed, the unthinking adherence to a set of predefined...
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( via James Bach's Blog ) Initial (potentially muddy) thoughts on this: After reading Kohl's original post on post-Agile and his FAQ I have to say that I totally agree with what I think he's saying - consider all practices and use what makes...
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I was just thinking today that I have a lot to learn in my new job. And all stuff that I've ignored for years: SQL, Office, Sharepoint. Gotta roll up the sleeves......
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Well, I've moved buildings and am now unpacking and setting up machines, etc. All quiet on the eastern front......
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Me (uh-oh...): Which Programming Language are You? (via Brian Marick )...
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...and I'm packing up my office for Monday's move. Before I got started, I thought, "this is a good opportunity to go through all my stuff and throw away/recycle the stuff I know that I'll no longer need/use. But laziness is setting in....
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I spent about 3 hours today with a couple of other guys trying to figure out what was messing things up with our test automation. There were no visible problems that we could see but after setup was done a bunch of files were missing from the computer....
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I'm currently listening to the most recent .NET Rocks! show . Jeff Atwood's blog is Coding Horror . I'm about 1/2 way through and he's talking about making a commitment to blog every so often. Kind of like what I'm trying to (but not...
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I'm almost ready for sleeping but I'm waiting for a couple of DotNetRocks shows to finish downloading. DotNetRocks is one of my favorite "internet audio talk shows". I'm trying to get to that point where I have all the shows downloaded....
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I sent this email out today. It's announcing broadly my new job: ronpih OOF 5/1/2007 - ??? After 12 1/2 years of living the Visual C++ world, I've decided to check out a new neighborhood. As of May 1st, I'll be moving over to building 34,...
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At work, I am in full-blown transition mode now. Spending some time tying up loose ends on the old job and opportunistically ramping up on my new job. It turns out that I have 2 test positions to hire for right away (reviewing job descriptions my boss...
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Yow. I was just doing some random web searches and it looks like my first entries in my Radio Userland weblog are still out there. Here's the first post . I haven't been posting there for a while but it's interesting that I've been blogging...
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This week, after a lot of thought and consideration, I decided to accept a job offer in a different division of the company. For the past 10 years I've worked in the Visual C++ group of the Developer Division. My new job will be in the analysis part...
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