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I’ve been writing software for others throughout my professional career to date, but this is about to change. I’m starting my own business, writing software aimed at academics. I’m still working at CollabNet at the moment, however my hours there will be reducing over the next 6 months as I get my own software ready. [...]

Well, this is actually a post about one of Steve Hayes’ posts, so the question isn’t “who am I?” but “who is he?”. This post seems to describe a lot of good programmers, and is sounding to some developers I respect that it could, for the most part, describe any of them. Thanks Korny for [...]

Jean Tabaka has posted 78 things I have learned in 6 years of Agile coaching over at rallydev, its worth a read. I particularly liked point 34, “Agile improves the quality of life for employees”. This matches my experience at work: since we took on Agile methods more seriously, I’ve had much fewer late nights. [...]

For those who aren’t already keeping up with the hilarity of xkcd, today’s is especially funny and even relevant here! http://xkcd.com/327/

Developing Programmers has been down for a while, due to a power supply “exploding” (figuratively). “Trouble” has migrated the whole system to another machine in another country and it’s now up and running again! Yay! The new server location should be faster for US visitors; and sadly a bit slower for readers in Australia.