7 Languages – Ruby pt.3
I have now waded through the Ruby chapters and exercises of the 7lang7weeks -book. A sparkle has been lit I must say. Ruby does seem to be a very productive programming language, ideal for quick...
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7 languages – Derailing with Ruby on Rails 3
I was supposed to continue my 7 languages journey, but I didn’t get Io installed as fast as I had been hoping for. I’ve seen too many C compiler errors in my life that I felt slightly annoyed that the...
View Article7 languages – is now 7 languaes and one framework
Ok, I’m done with Ruby for a while. That little webapp I had in mind turned into an app that would require quite much javascript (jQuery, jQueryUI) with very small amount of Ruby code. I may have to...
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A New Job
Spring (duh! the season, not that friggin’ ugly framework) has brought change. I got an irresistible offer, resigned and will be joining the ranks of Nitor Creations starting on the 2nd of May! Oh the...
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My new job – first two days
Lovin’ it already. And today was my second day at Nitor Creations. I got a new laptop (Lenovo W510/12GB mem, i7 quad-core!) with win7. Well, I have very little knowledge how to work effectively with...
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Trying to see the big picture with Kanban
Awesome start at work! I’m in a team of four very experienced and smart people, we have a product owner who is tech-savvy, knows what he wants and sits in our team room! On top of that we have an...
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I will be speaking at Tampere Goes Agile 2011!
Wow! :) I’d like give huge thanks to the organising posse for trusting me with a slot! This will be the first time for me to speak in a conference. It’s quite funny since I have participated in exactly...
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Demanding transparency?
What if someone demands transparency from you? What do you do? What does transparency mean? It can mean that we should keep things in the open, no secrets or that our doings are audited and we can...
View ArticleThe Zone Considered Dangerous
Most programmers know what is “The Zone”. It is a very focused state of mind where you feel that there are no problems that you cannot solve. You know, the state where your surroundings disappear and...
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An anatomy of a successful retrospective
It had been a while since I last facilitated a retrospective. So, I wanted to make sure that I can deliver and prepared properly. I had a few ideas of my own and few based on short discussions I had...
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