Category Archives: personal

A Retrospective: Moving

On July 4th of this year, my wife, 3 kids and I moved into a new house. It’s not the first house we owned but with a family the size of mine the smaller house we were living in was just not going to scale with us. My son already took over my basement office [...]
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100 Pushups – Week 1

This week I’ll be starting the 100 Pushup Training program. The first step in the program is determining what rank I fall in for the program. I did the initial test this morning and was able to eek out 16 pushups, according to the guidelines found on the website, for my age and the number [...]
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100 Pushups

I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled on the 100 Push ups Training Program, but it immediately caught my attention as something I could integrate into my existing exercise program (note: my current exercise program consists of nothing more then waking up every morning). The frequency and pace of the program seemed like something I [...]
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Birthday Contest @ CodeSqueeze

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 [...]
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How often do you commit?

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 [...]
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jonezy.org.BackpackAPI

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 [...]
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Twitter, where is the value?

I’ve been using twitter for about 6 months with varying degrees of “using”. Sometimes it’s a passive view where I see what other people are doing and not really broadcasting what I am doing, other times it’s lot’s of little wonderful nuggets out of my life that make it on there, and the occasional [...]
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Movie Review: Cloverfield

(note: this blog post is a couple of months old, it’s no longer winter in canada and i kinda stumbled on this so i figured I would post it.) So i went opening night, left just as quickly as a I got there due to the swarming mass of 14-18 year olds trying to buy tickets, [...]
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Learning from others

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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What went well, what didn’t go well, what can I try next time?

At Q4 we have a monthly retrospective at the end of each month, and we ask our selves these 3 questions: 1) What went well this month? 2) What didn’t go well this month? 3) What can we try next month? This is an agile philosophy that we use on the month and week level at work depending on [...]
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