First: Principles

Ramblings of a software developer with a degree in bioinformatics. Agile development mixed with DNA sequencing - what could go wrong?

Friday, April 22, 2005

How to lose a web site

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Here's some really good advice, with lots of real-life examples, on how not to create a web site. #1. Don't choose a site that'...
Thursday, April 21, 2005

Narcissism

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(As if there was anything more narcissistic than a blog). I've started a web site devoted to people named Ben Fulton . We are quite th...
Monday, April 18, 2005

Book review: Laws of our Fathers, Scott Turow

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There's a certain kind of multi-generational book that appeals to me; the kind where you get to look back across many generations and re...
Sunday, April 17, 2005

Vacation Bible School ramping up

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Our VBS has a directorship-by-committee this year, and I'm on it. It's a new thing for all three of us, but we're working toget...
Friday, April 15, 2005

Finishing an agile project

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I did a bit of research for this article, after it occurred to me that I really wasn't sure how to answer this objection. How DO you kn...
Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Problems of Software Development 3

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One interesting thing I've noticed about Extreme Programming in particular is that any objection you can present to a single practice, u...
Sunday, April 10, 2005

Xanga and RSS

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This is a friend of mine who has been blogging for a while now, but I haven't found the site until now. Her host, Xanga, does not do an ...
Friday, April 08, 2005

Agile in the trenches

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So who does this agile development stuff? Ron Jeffries. Martin Fowler. Duh. Who does it that's never met either of those two people? ...

Importance of the church web site

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As Jordon Cooper was considering a church, he found very little about it . He'd find even less, I suspect, about our church if he looke...

Problems of Software Development 2

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I discussed some problems with software development here . So what can be done? The basic problems I see here are #1: The Deadline, and #2: ...
Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Big visible belly

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I love Brian Marick's idea to help him lose weight. I weigh almost exactly what he does, but I'm not as agressive in my goals; I...

Problems of Software Development

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I'd hazard a guess that most companies develop software in a manner somewhat like this: they come up with a short list of features, brea...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Buying some oil tankers

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I bought some shares of Nordic American Tanker (NAT) today. I went in looking to put some money into China or maybe Hong Kong in raw materi...
Sunday, April 03, 2005

What did we do that worked?

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The site "Church Marketing...", well, something or other, asks, "What did you do this weekend that worked? What did you do t...

Church management software part 3: Creeping feature

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OK, the very next thing I intend to do is expand the range of the product a little. For months I've been primarily responsible for atte...

Politics of choosing the next Pope

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Friday, April 01, 2005

I still don't get Technorati

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Poking around for information on this project, I did a Technorati search for "Church Software". This blog came up, updated 2 hour...

Church management software Part 2: Inherent requirements

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So now we have a basic goal for the application; we have a vague idea what the users are going to want to do with it; the next question is, ...
Thursday, March 31, 2005

Church management software

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One thing I'm looking to do is to make this blog a little more technically oriented. My other blog is really an Interactive Intelligenc...
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Writing again

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I've been so busy lately that I haven't bothered to write anything. But today I fired up Bandit to catch up a little bit on http://...
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