DafyddRees

  Welcome Dr. Rees, would you like to play a game?

  1. Chess
  2. Checkers
  3. Backgammon
  4. Strategic, Intercontinental, Distributed Agile Development

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Interesting Stuff:

• Having fun at work with RubyOnRails?.
• We've recently had some academics studying our use of video conferenced handovers. For some reason one of them kept taping us all day. Now I understand why Russell Crowe hits photographers.
• The development and use of the BullshitStick
• http://www.freakonomics.com/
• Prototyping something at work using Squeak, Seaside and SPrevayler. Ever considered GOODS Dafydd, Java and Squeak can share objects in GOODS ?-- OliBye Nope - the spike is long over. Nice work while it lasted.
• RubyOnRails?
• Escaping from Windows to MacOsX? (at home anyway)

Previously on Interesting Stuff

• ModelViewPresenter? and MVC
• JosephPelrine thinks we kick ass, and there's proof http://www.dafydd.net/blog/entries/20040914.html
• Tinkering with Python (Does anybody know a python IDE that supports agile development? I'm looking for one that feels more like eclipse than Visual Studio.)
• DolphinSmalltalk
• TopLink? and object-relational mapping
• KpaxAndAgility

Stuff I like: Smalltalk, Python, Ruby, Lisp (the brochure looks nice - I'll go there someday), ObjectPrevalence?, Java when used minimally, Linux, open source and most importantly a truly agile mindset

Past amusements:

• New phrase: CardJacking
• I recently came to appreciate the importance of Noel Godin's work.
• Some amusing flame-bait I left hanging around ;-) http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/135
• debunking ObjectOrientedMythology

Background

In November 2002, I left BT to go to work on an XP project at Wireless Data Services in Poole.

I've been a student of OOP and OOD for a long time. I like things that emphasize good cruftsmanship over blind faith in bleeding-edge technology. I wish that more people saw the lasting value of real object technology.

More about me can be found at http://www.dafydd.net

Thoughts, articles and book references welcome.