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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Agile and assembly lines

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Coder Friendly’s got an interesting article about Agile Evangelism. First I’m not going to take issue with the article itself but something that he quotes from DanC’s Lost Garden on Managing Complexity:
The repetative (sic) steps that a single worker performs on an assembly line is a good example of a simple task
This is a terribly [...]

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American Express are enablers of security threats

Monday, September 14, 2009

Peter Newton, “Director of Marketing” at American Express Australia Limited ABN 92 108 952 085, really likes Russian Mafiosa. Or maybe it’s Chinese Triads, bikie gangs, or maybe some local spivs operating out of a small rented smash repair shop near Beenleigh. Perhaps all of the above. Look at this email I got in my [...]

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Systems versus Individuals and technical debt

Saturday, September 5, 2009

I kind of disagree with this picture by Josh Susser regarding the “circle of death” in terms of code quality and late night effort. It is right enough as far as it goes but it doesn’t go far enough.
First up, the easy way out – take a day off, go for a walk in the [...]

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