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I have managed an agile project and convincing developers to follow coding conventions isn’t easy. Thus, the following article was interesting for me: Dr. Dobb’s | Coding Conventions: Make Them Agile | September 20, 2006 The main conclusion is that the coding conventions should come from the team themselves, should be simple and localized. “… [...]

While being in Boston, I attended the open floor session of the SD Best Practice 2006 conference. I will consolidate my findings from there and publish some of it here too. I was impressed by the many talks and tools for Agile Software development methods. Next week I will be on a course – learning [...]

Dr. Dobb’s | Escape the software development paradigm trap | May 29, 2006 I want to keep a marker to this article as it addresses several interesting issues in software development but also the metaphors used are thought provoking.

Wired News: Work More, Do Less With Tech This article at Wired describes a feeling I have came to think about lately, too – technology, work load and productivity. Many people consider me to be well organised and a person that “gets things done”. However, I don’t feel the same way. I find it increasingly [...]

…lots of time to find my data. Last week I decided that my private laptop needs a clean-up – a very thorough one. I backed up my data; basically I copied a few directories to my external HD, amongst them “Application Data”. Then I reinstalled Windows. Of course, I wanted to get my data back [...]

Today I spent a lot of time on the web and I stumbled upon a lot of things: First, there is the “Get Things Done” line I followed. Starting from the book by David Allen I quickly came to Sylvia’s GTD Homepage and then to the GTD with Gmail Whitepaper. I was previously looking for [...]

First, a Happy New Year (2006) to all of you out there. While an illness forces me to lay in bed I have some time to dig around for various things I am interested in. One of these things are systems of “Social Bookmarking”. Personally I have been using Spurl for a while and I [...]

Today our company invited the department of Computer Science at the Technical University Vienna to present current research topics and results as well as to discuss possible collaborations. I am curious about the result of this event. In a workshop Alexander Schatten discussed issues of Agile Development of businesses as well as software and he [...]

We had the first snow today. After leaving the house and walking for ten minutes I looked like a little snow man. (Un)fortunately, it did not stay. However, the forecast promises more snow and cold weather. I went to a cafe/bar/restaurant called “Rochus” to try their breakfast. Frankly, I was not too impressed, nevertheless my [...]

Yesterday we went to Linz on a departmental away day. There we visited the Ars Electronica center – a “museum of the future”. This exhibition is a great playground. You are allowed to touch (almost) everything, to try everything out, to participate and to “change” the exhibition in that way. It was great. I was [...]