In 2009, Venture Capital Opportunities Still Exist
On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to attend the Potomac Tech Wires 2009 Venture Capital Outlook. First, I applaud the Potomac Tech Wire for putting together a fine panel. …
Indexing Information about people needs a “time axis”
I bet most people have done the vanity search on Google for themselves, I know I have. The problem with most indexing systems is that they go out and…
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…
Storytelling Session at Expo QA 2008
Karen N. Johnson gave the keynote after lunch on the topic of Story Telling. I love these kind of topics that at first dont seem very related to our…
Live blog of Keynote at Expo QA 2008
You know Agile is becoming prevalent when the keynote of a conference about testing in the more traditional sense of testing major applications used by airlines, banks, and other…
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…
LinkedIn Needs To Break the Chain
I received an e-mail from LinkedIn this morning saying that there were a whole slew of new applications waiting for me to use. Surprised, I went to their website…
Azimuth Treasure Hunt App: Release the Hounds!
As Eric already indicated in a previous post, this past weekend 4 members of the OpenSource Connections team competed in Rails Rumble 2008. We built a Ruby on Rails…
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…