For a while now, I’ve wanted to give a talk on Indeed’s unique approach to software development agility and some of the tools we use. Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the Keep Austin Agile conference. The title of my talk was “Forget methodology. Focus on what matters.” and the high-level description […]
Tom Davenport sent this email to The Listserve (an email lottery) the other day, and I thought it was worth sharing. I’m posting this with Tom’s permission. This is a story about music. It is also a call to arms for anyone interested in recording. Forward it to anyone it might help. A lot is […]
Had a good quick visit to Austin Comic Con earlier this month. As soon as I walked in, I bumped into friend and great comics creator Yehudi Mercado and picked up the latest volume of Buffalo Speedway: Over in Artists Alley, I met some great creators. Had fun talking to local artist Rob Osborne, who […]
It was a great ACL Fest this year. The weather was as good as we could have hoped, given the brutally hot Austin summer we’ve been living through. It was hot, yes, but it could have been so much hotter. Every day had at least some cloud cover, and every day had some cooling rain. […]
Last night I got a flood of blank emails from the mint.com domain. I was a little puzzled and concerned, but decided not to worry about it. Tonight, I got this email from Mint and it made me laugh out loud. A sense of humor is always a nice touch in a “mea culpa”…
I updated my popular Time Traveler’s Wife: Timelines post from 2006 to have links to view the PDFs online in Google Docs. Thanks, Google!
I geek out over genealogy research from time to time, and have built up a pretty big family tree on ancestry.com. Today for fun I figured out how to download the tree in GEDCOM format, which is text-based and allowed me to export a list of unique family names from the tree. I have no […]
Love me some Venn diagrams, especially when they’re this funny! Thanks, xkcd… (Via xkcd.com.)
After my experience last year, I knew I had to head back to San Diego this year, even though we are no longer Southern California residents. The trip was remarkably similar to last year. I took an early morning flight from Austin to LAX on Saturday, and I was picked up by my awesome college […]
So far the new gig is going well. Having some fun exploring the code base and getting a continuous build up and running with Hudson. Really great getting to know the team and working on ideas how I can help out. Here’s my silly little riff on my company’s name and the trademark saying of […]
