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Last Day at Current Contract Announced

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 1, 2008

Friday is going to be my last day at my current contract. If anyone has an interesting opportunity out there, drop me a line. In vaguely related news, I’ve applied for the Ocaml Summer Project, and I think my application is pretty strong. Waiting for the answer is kinda freaking me out!

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Functionality, Code, and Productivity

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 15, 2008

From Agile Software Development’s “Micromanagement in Agile/Scrum”: The sad or not so sad truth is that agile methods are not aimed at maximizing the development team productivity. It is one of the welcome side effects that can happen, but that is not the grand goal. One can even say that the agile doesn’t care about [...]

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Sierra Bravo’s F1 Overnight Website Challenge

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 18, 2007

Sierra Bravo‘s F1 Overnight Website Challenge is a cute little idea: 24 hours of non-stop coding for the good of nonprofits. Should be fun. Groovy.MN has failed to pull a team together, so it was a pretty easy decision to sign on with Ruby.MN-ists. Although, the “Pixel-Stained Technopeasants” or “The Mighty Polymorphin Power Rangers” would [...]

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Frustrations with Maven

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 25, 2007

I’ve never had the joy of working with Maven directly — every time one of my projects get near it, there’s a developer revolt and we end up hand-rolling the project build/deploy tools through Ant files and shell scripts. This approach is not as painful as it used to be, but it seems like there [...]

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Agile Alliance is getting a shake-up

By Robert Fischer | Published: June 26, 2007

Interesting post from the new head of the Agile Alliance here. I’ve got to admit: the most useful part of the Agile Alliance to my life has been their digital copy of the Agile Manifesto, so I like the fact that it is going to be recommitted towards user groups like Minnesota’s Object Technology User [...]

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