Years ago at one of my previous jobs, I remarked to a coworker when we were trying to move the organization to agile that “Before, we were about as agile as an 80 year old man with arthritis. Now we are about as agile as an 80 year old man […]
You a member of an agile development team planning out your next sprint. You have estimate your velocity at 33. You currently have a load of 32. There is a remaining story that has been estimated as having 2 story points (using a Fibonacci sequence). Would it be a mistake […]
Now that I have (somewhat) recovered from the 2011 Clojure Conj, I can finish up my reflections. Starting with Rich’s keynote (which was on Day 2, but I didn’t have time to respond to then), as I said earlier it was more of a technical talk than the philosophical keynotes […]
Ok, so after 3 days of agile training followed by two full days of Clojure Conj, I am a bit ready for a rest. Too much coffee and convention food can make my stomach feel a tad off. Anyway, yesterday started off ominously enough, with a Veterans Day parade shutting down a […]
So a quick recap of the good and bad during the first day of the 2011 Clojure Conj. Lets start with the good: A fantastic talk by Arnoldo Muller-Molina on using Clojure in some very interesting bioinformatics problems. Two very interesting talks on logic programming, one by Ambrose on Clojure’s core.logic, […]