http://www.cobbie.com/blog cbehrend at consult hyphen cts dot com Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:31:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The plan was simple: go for a ten mile run. The plan was sensible: start out in KSO's and have sneakers on the ready for when the feet start failing me. This is what I vocalized to my wife on the phone before I left the office. ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2009/09/10/cobbie-time-travels/ I'm booked on Delta and flying to Utah on the 18th of September 0800 hours. The excitement isn't that I was able to reserve the window seat 20A (I always have loved the back corner of a plane), nor that I get to see old stomping grounds after a ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2009/08/14/i-gotta-see-about-a-mountain/ I started a GWT project recently and struggled for a while on how best to separate the project into smaller modules. What I wanted was to be able to throw the UI over a fence and have someone else design and build it, and myself focus only on the ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2008/11/01/gwt-project-module-layout/ There are some people who respond very well to being told "here is a better way, you should try this". Then there are people who react defensively, almost out of instinct. These types of people tend to put great weight in the status quo, and believe that ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2007/06/18/the-language-of-change/ Again, I attended this talk for the same reasons as Venkat's: to gain more breadth in how Agile is talked about and communicated. This talk links to some good resources: The design in software development is the source code Building Bridges Software Design One of the key enablers for being able to gather ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2007/03/22/tssjs2007-neal-ford-agile-metrics/ A couple of days ago I assumed that a regurgitation of an agile talk on a blog as no value. Today I'm not so sure. There seems to be much less adoption of agile practices than what I had thought, and Venkat is a great speaker who has ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2007/03/22/tssjs2007-venkat-subramaniam-on-agile/ Venkat's talk as not started yet, and the keynote questions are droning on. I'm attending the talk because for as much noise as Agile has made there has not been a proportionate level of either criticism or adoption. Instead my perception of what is happening is that most ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2007/03/22/agile-vs-snafu/ Erich Gamma spoke on Eclipse and transitioning it from closed to open source. One if the initial concerns was that competitors would see the bugs in the application. However, Erich believes that there is an upside to this, because there is nothing more motivating than to have your ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2007/03/21/tssjs-2007-erich-gamma-keynote-jazz/ I went to Scrum training not too long ago. For me the goal was: how do I package Agile so that I can sell it to companies that are not doing Agile. While attending NFJS today I ran into David Hussman who pointed me to a thread where, ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2007/03/03/selling-agile-a-smell/ My experience has been that writing my tests after I write my code is painful. Assuming you are writing your test afterwards. If your code requires refactoring in order to be unit tested effectively (and mine always does when I do try writing tests after writing the code, because I ... http://www.cobbie.com/blog/2006/12/11/why-i-prefer-tdd/