One of the common tasks when working in an agile environment is pointing stories, its essential that the team and the product owner get together and decide on how much effort something is going to take. We had a meeting scheduled today at work to do just this, 4 stories that needed pointing so they [...]
In the design and development world there is a lot of talk about constraints and embracing them to foster creativity. I love this movement and subscribe to it (at least I try to).
One thing that has slowly crept up on me though is that this type of attitude is starting to gain some real [...]
Why can’t I do that?
16 Jun
Posted by jonezy as Uncategorized, awesome, design, development, google, software
I just had to post this video I came across the other day, it’s a google tech talk and the presenter is Aza Raskin (Son of Jeff Raskin, the guy who started the macintosh project for apple). He’s also one of the founders of Humanized who make the most excellent Enso launcher product, a company [...]
Birthday Contest @ CodeSqueeze
08 Jun
Posted by jonezy as awesome, blogs, development, friends, personal, software, twitter
Max Poole is holding a contest at his blog to give away a copy of Bamboo 2.0 (continuous integration software) and a copy of Slick Edit (suite of add-ons for visual studio)
I’ve never used the Slick Edit product but I’ve got lot’s of experience using Atlassian products (Jira and confluence) and would love to get [...]
I was working on some code today and was getting ready to do a check in and I thought to myself, should I be checking this code in? I made tiny change that would end up being part of a bigger refactoring of some tests I was writing, I wasn’t sure if I would be [...]
jonezy.org.BackpackAPI
27 May
Posted by jonezy as awesome, development, open source, personal, web2.0
Is the reason why I haven’t been posting here, I’m working on building a c# wrapper for the 37 Signals Backpack API. Nothing terribly exciting yet (I’m basically just implementing the services per the api docs). I’m hosting this at Google Code and this will be an open source project. I’m also [...]
What do you do when the shit hits the fan?
13 May
Posted by jonezy as business, development, q4, software, work
To cut to the point, I was promoting some changes for a client last night. It was an update to part of our product that allows our customers to send automated and one off emails to lists of subscribers. I had done promotions similar to this in the past (in fact i’ve probably done the [...]
As an employee of a software development it’s fairly common to have people of many nationalities and cultural backgrounds as co-workers. More and more people from around the world come to Canada and the United States to find jobs in the tech industry, bringing there ample skills and knowledge to the companies they work for. [...]
The other day at lunch a co-worker of mine and I were talking about hockey. Our conversation ended up at Alexander Ovechkin, left winger for the Washington Capitals.
Whether you are a hockey fan or not this guy is a sight to see on the ice. Every goal he scores is like his first goal, every [...]
In the vein of the last post (what went well, what didn’t go well, what can i try next time?), I decided to apply this exercise to a particularly bad customer service experience I had at the local drug store. But this time I would apply those 3 questions to how the pharmacy [...]
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