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Jim Prince on January 31st, 2011

A post on Coding Horror reminded me of the open sourcing of Netscape code back in 1998 – was that really 13 years ago? Jeff talks about a documentary called Code Rush which chronicles this period in Netscape’s history including it’s purchase by AOL. It’s well worth watching and illustrates how important that era was [...]

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Jim Prince on January 5th, 2009

Here are my 2009 tech based new years resolutions. Play more with social media. Dip into Twitter a couple of times a day, try to blog once a week and keep an eye on the web 2.0 (3.0!?) news sites – Having said that I’m still not sure I ‘get’ Twitter but hundreds of thousands [...]

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Jim Prince on August 4th, 2008

Fonts are the clothes that words wear – http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=675149 Useful Shortcuts in Ubuntu – http://maketecheasier.com/useful-shortcut-keys-in-ubuntu/2008/07/14 Command Prompt Tricks – http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000334.html The definitive resource list for designing, developing, marketing & maintaining websites – http://www.agencytool.com/dashboard/

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Jim Prince on July 23rd, 2008

Just to show things don’t move that quickly, todays brown bag session was a Google Tech Talk from back in December 2005. Elisabeth Hendrickson talks about Agile Testing and how the traditional role of the tester is extinct if you’re developing in an agile way.  I’d normally find this subject quite dull, but her obvious passion [...]

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Jim Prince on July 13th, 2008

Here’s a link to Andrew’s presentation from a recent SUGUK event. We’ve been using agile development for a while in Synetrix but we’re now trying to work to a more formal SCRUM development process. Having seen how this works in other companies it should be interesting…

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