2009: It is a new year, be productive but dump your resolutions.
Every year people tend to spend the first month or two making promises they are going to break a few moments, maybe weeks later. We tend to lack resolve…
ExpoQA Integracion Continua Wrap Up
Last Friday I had the huge honor of presenting at ExpoQA 2008 in Madrid on the topic of Continuous Integration, or maybe I should say Integracion Continua since I…
ISO Standards Talk at Expo QA
Stuart Reid of Testing Solutions Group gave a presentation on the new ISO standard for testing. While ISO standards are not normally my cup of tea, I was interested…
How the Earth Shifted Weight in One Weekend
If you have noticed the earth move or shift this past weekend, do not fear I have the answer. This was the result of the evil planning of Baron…
Keynote Live blog of DoD Open Tech
Note: This post was delayed a couple weeks. Today Scott Stults and myself traveled up to DC to exhibit and attend the DoD Open Technologies Conference. We attended last…
Ruby DCamp
Ruby DCamp is the first conference, of any type related to ruby or my recent work with Ruby on Rails, I have attended since graduating from UVa. I have…
Trip Report: Shenandoah Ruby User Group
Last week four of us from RubyCodeJam took the trip over the mountain to Harrisonburg, VA to join ShRUG for the evening. Alex Herron had arranged for Rich Kilmer…
Three Ways Semantic MediaWiki Can Supercharge Your Wiki
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a a single extension to the ever-popular MediaWiki that instantly adds semantic web capabilities to your wiki pages. That means that you can annotate important…
Up and Coming Microsoft Technologies In Open Source
Typically speaking in the past, critics would have laughed or promptly smashed any one who supported the “evil empire” in any way, shape, or form. However, times change and…
Leveraging Multimedia for Learning
A couple months ago I served on the CBIC Innovation Awards research committee. I was able to sit in on an interview with Beth White from Western Albemarle High…
Relaunch of Charlottesville Dot Net User Group
Last week I decided to learn a bit more about .NET, and attended the relaunch of the Charlottesville .NET User Group who was featuring Geoff Snowman talking about Windows…
beCamp 2008 Rocked!
Well, the thank you notes to sponsors and volunteers have been written and mailed, the venue has been cleaned up, and the accounting for funds spent has been dealt…