At the moment, most of my time is spend writing on the new book which I'm writing with Craig Larman. Writing is awfully hard, but I'm learning and Craig is helping me a lot fixing my poor writing skills. Recently we pre-published one of the chapters
I just finished the fairly new book from Scott Bain called "Emergent Design". The book was good and I was disappointed. I expected much more, based on the title, but the book basically was just a summary of good agile practices. I did write a fairly large Amazon
Hmm.. I had posted a pretty large entry 2 weeks ago, but something went wrong and it never got posted. Too bad. Anyways, it was a book recommendation about "Project Managers Bridge to Agility" which, even though there is all this "agile project manager" talk, still
Mike Feathers pointed me to this excellent FQA about C++: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ I especially like the C/C++ things in there. Bumped my head to most of these in the past :)
Earlier this week I was in Tokyo again. Tokyo is a city I always like visiting. Good food, big and always interesting new things for a non-Japanese to discover. One of the interesting bits this time was the line in front of the Doughnut store near ShinJuKu. When I lived
About 2 weeks ago I was in Denver on the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange. This was a small conference which focused on lean product development (not just SW). I was invited by Marry Poppendieck to come and speak on a panel she was organizing together with Peter (Xerox)
I've recently made some very kewl CppUTest changes (at least, I think they are nice). CppUTest has a TestPlugin design. This means that you can write "Plugins" and add them in your main method. The Plugins is called before every setup and after ever teardown (automatically)
Phew. It's been a while since I wrote something here. Life has been insane for me. This year, I've been traveling probably around 80% of my time. It feels like I've been more in planes than out of planes. I was in Korea, India
Last week I had some time to work on some C legacy code again and write some unit tests. I've been playing with a refactoring that I've used in the past and now use it all the time when working in C. The refactoring is called
The second day in Nagoya, Craig and me went to the Toyota museum. At first we wondered if we would be able to spend the whole day there, though in the end we got removed from the museum because they were closing. The Toyota museum is close to the Nagoya
My first day in Nagoya was spend quite relaxed. I tried to recover from the trip and also from the training the day before. I met up with Craig and Kenji, who were going to join me to Toyota. Today we went to the Toyota factory. After about an hour
Last years, I've traveled way too much. One of the advantages is that you see a lot of cities. Just last week, I was visiting Beijing and was thinking, ah this is actually quite a nice city (I used to live there). So, I decided on making a
Last week I was in Tokyo, there to give the first public CSM course in Japan. It was a wonderful experience, I'm quite happy about it. I arrived very late due to plane delay and we started early the next day. My slides are all translated in Japanese
Last months I've been away way too much. I'm happy to be back at home (China). In August I was in Washington in the Agile2007 conference. It was a great conference and had excellent discussions with lots of people. Washington was hard though, exactly 12 hour
It's been months since my last blog entry. I should really try to blog more often. Anyways, it's not so stange that I didn't have a chance to blog since so much stuff happened since the last post. Oki, just a short overview. January
Due to spam, I've turned off the trackback option. Really too bad. I tried much ways to fight it in different ways. If you know a hack to b2evolution for turning it off better, please let me know.