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Monkey Business?
Being the Britpop fanboy that I am, I have a few albums by various Blur spin-offs, namely Gorillaz, Graham Coxon and The Good, The Bad and The Queen. One strange thing about this: in my iTunes library of more than 200 albums, these 3 all appear next to each other in my standard sorting view. Curious... -
Au revoir to .NET, & .NET open source
Through a combination of switching to the Mac, moving to a new company that's almost entirely a Java shop (more on that soon!), and becoming significantly 'post-technical', I've decided to bow out of my .NET open source projects, and I doubt I'll be doing any .NET coding for a while.
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Building the new World Trade Center
As of a couple of weeks ago, I have a new job (more to come on that some other time.) One thing about my new job is from my desk I have a grandstand view of what is probably the most famous construction site in the world right now - that of the new World Trade Center.
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Intolerable
It's already most of the way round the blogosphere by now, but I just wanted to join in the voices of condemnation against the people who have abused Kathy Sierra.
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XTC-NYC #5
eXtreme Tuesday will be at Vol de Nuit on March 20th. Geekery + Westmalle trappist ale - now that's what I call a satisfying Tuesday evening!
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XTC-NYC #4
The first New York eXtreme Tuesday of March will be at The Half King at West 23rd & 10th Ave. More details on the XTC Blog. See you there!
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Build Traffic Light. Literally.
One of the most important aspects to an effective continuous integration setup is quick and obvious feedback. People have come up with lots of different red/green 'traffic light' monitors, from CruiseControl.NET's CCTray to Lava Lamps. However, one team has taken the metaphor a bit further - an actual traffic light. Click here and scroll to item 12 for more detail. -
XTC-NYC #3
We're back at the Silver Swan this week (Feb 20th) due mostly to a lack of inspiration on my part (and yes, the beer was good!) More details here.
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XTC-NYC Iteration 2
New York's eXtreme Tuesday kicked off with a bang 2 weeks ago - we had a turn-out of 30 or so people and it appeared everyone enjoyed themselves!
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Plutoed