On April 5th I have a talk lined up with the Bellingham .NET Users Group. So far here’s a quick one over of the talk: What Cloud Computing REALLY is to us techies Geographically dispersed data centers. Node based – AKA grid computing configurations that are… Highly Virtualized – thus distributed. Primarily compute and storage... Continue reading →

I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. It had been a really long time since I listed the current tools, SDKs, and frameworks that I’ve been using. Thus here’s my entourage of software that I use on a regular basis that is installed on my primary development machines. Continue reading →

So again, the #altnetseattle Conference easily was one of the most useful events of the year for me. The amount of ideas, thoughts, and conversations that happen in just those two days often outweigh all the presentations I see at other conferences throughout the year. The reason is simple, they are directed, to the point,... Continue reading →

The two main concepts of Kanban is to keep the queues minimum and to maintain visibility. Management/leadership needs to make sure the Kanban Queue doesn?t get starved. This is key and also very challenging, being the queue needs to be minimal but also can?t get too small during the course of work. This is to... Continue reading →

The session convened and we began a discussion about why collaboration is so hard. To work together in software better us engineers have to overcome traditional software approaches (silos of work) and the human element of tending to go off in a corner to work through an issue. It was agreed upon that software engineers... Continue reading →