Wayne Allen's Weblog
pragmatic agility
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Ben Hyde goes wonky
Ben Hyde posted about wanting the blue states to secede. Besides being a childish reaction to losing did he ever consider that most of the blue states voted in the 40% range for Bush and vice versa? Who's going to secede from who?
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Dan Appleman goes wonky
Dan posted about the elections and gave us advice to go join the ACLU because they protect everyone's rights (unless you're conservative). And yes I am proud to have Bush represent my party.
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Sorry about your guy
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Election Day - Enblogment
Dave Winer has a interesting idea he is calling enblogment. Here is my choice.
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StringBuilder.Equals
Interesting note: StringBuilder instances are only considered equal if Capacity, MaxCapacity and the string value are all the same. I guess it makes sense in a way, but it means I can't do a if (a == b) check because who knows what could have changed Capacity or MaxCapacity. So rather I have to do a if (a.ToString() == b.ToString())instead - messy.
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Angle brackets must go away
I was talking with Scott Hanselman (gratuitous name drop) about the difference between rpc and document style. It took me a moment since I don't deal with SOAP internals much any more. It occurred to me shortly thereafter that I don't really care other than I have a bias towards document style.
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Geek Politics
I've been listening to IT Converstations and generally getting into the podcasting thing since I do have 40-60 min commute each way and I'm oh so tired of broadcast radio. (I claim early adopter since I've been listening to audio on my giant HP Jornada for a couple of years now).
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Wil Wheaton - Why?
I was listening to Wil Wheaton's performance recorded at Gnomedex 4.0 via IT Conversations this week. The stories ranged from mildly amusing to yawners and when it was over I started wondering why Wil? Is it because he blogs? Because all geeks have a secret desire to be on Star Trek? I'm not sure. The impression I walked away with was that Wil is pretty good live performer, took a long time to get through adolescence, has had some challenges in his life and is profane. To be sure it wasn't just that performance I checked out his blog, but I still don't get it. What relevance does Wil have to geekdom? I know there are those who adamantly hate Wil for something as well as those who love him. But for me, I've decided I don't really care - at all.
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More Burndowns
Brian Marick posted here and here about burnbown chart styles and I thought I'd chime in with my variation.
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Multidimensional Methodologies
In preparation for the upcoming SPIN panel the (common) question was asked. "Is there a continuum with Waterfall on one end and Agile on the other?" My response is that the differences are multidimensional and relate more to where you are and where you want to go. So I came up with a way to look at various different software development methodologies and came up with this.