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Ernest Hemingway Originally uploaded by kaskotak.
Here’s another shot of my robo-Hemingway “costume.”

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One of our friends had a halloween party this weekend. It was Cuban themed, so I dressed up like Hemingway.

Well, that was the idea. The hair color turned out to be silver, so I felt more like a Cuban Robot.

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I’m not sure I buy Cockburn’s machismo angle, in his
article “Are Iterations Hazardous to Your Project?”, as the complete reason for the prevalence of 2 week iterations. As we’ll see, I think the underlying problem isn’t so much machismo as it is, well, not being wise enough to do otherwise as needed.
But I like his […]

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Most people’s #1 misunderstanding about Agile is that no planning
is ever done. You just get a list of story haiku (”the system must be
508 compliant, we have a contract” or “the system must interact 5,000
wing-dings, our customers demand it”) and start hacking away. More
importantly, Agile folks poop all over water-fall planning, and so it
seems that […]

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Here at DrunkAndRetired.com we are, of course, obsessed with Enterprise Software. So, e highly recommend and urge you to check out Ed Gibb’s funny (as in “funny because it’s true”) post on Enterprise [Software] Smells.
I think most dorks reading this have either (a.) experienced, or, (b.) written software that does each of the things in […]

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