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My Agile On The Beach 2014
Last year Agile On The Beach 2013 was approached with an excited anticipation of the unknown, and relatively newly having joined the Agile party. With lessons learned and applied from 2013 I was keen to capitalise on Agile On The Beach 2014, and bring new ideas and things to try back to my team. This year is the…
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Mac Mini Hard Disk Upgrade with Clonezilla
My Dad’s aging Mac Mini has done him a great service. A late 2009 A1283 model we’ve already upgraded the RAM to 8GB but didn’t take the opportunity to address the 160gig hard drive. Sadly for Dad this meant, while processing photos, he ran out of space at the weekend. No problem… Lots of 2.5inch…
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Agile On The Beach #AGILEOTB #ATOB 2013 and 2014
Last year I had the pleasure of attending Agile On The Beach 2013. My first Agile Conference and first Tech Conference in Cornwall. As a relatively new team to Agile it was a great launch pad, with lots of great ideas and takeaways to try with my team: Agile should always focus on removing barriers from productivity…
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DN10 – Sticking to even numbers
Post DN10 (Destination Nurburgring 10) depression and work have kept me sufficiently busy that this post is now inversely proportional lateness to its relevance. It’s also melodramatic… 75% happy to have been able to attend DN6, 8 and now 10. 25% sad an imminent grown up things mean this may be my last DN and Nurburgring…
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Nurburgring June 2013: Destination Nurburgring 8 #DN8
The main event: What’s better than a track day at the Nurburgring, exclusively for a small number of cars (less than a VLN race), no barriers and the ability to drive DH flat out? A two day event! DN8 included Wednesday and Thursday. Without fail before every track event I jump through a succession of loops:…
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Nurburgring June 2013: Tourist Experience Tuesday
All previous trips have seen me arrive late the day before a track / TF day, drive the circuit and head home the next day. This time would be different, with Tuesday set aside to soak up being at the Nurburgring. After a full breakfast Neil and I set off to check-in at Rent4Ring Neil’s…
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Nurburgring June 2013: Neil’s first Trip and Trackday
Snaking through the cones and barriers to join the legendary Nordschleife (Northloop) is a truly great feeling. A perfect blend of: WTF am I doing here, this is too much fun to be legal and an adrenalin hit that makes the next 13 miles something all motor sport fans need to experience. As cliche as…
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Master Boot Record (MBR) Corruption and PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE)
Today is a big deadline in work. The point when weeks of work flow from development to production (via numerous sprints and UAT releases). The culmination of the development team and my efforts over the last two months. As with most IT projects the last two weeks have been a bit fraught, testing us as we prepare…
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Excited by the BMW i3
Caveats: Not driven an i3 and no idea of costings. BMW have been testing their electric 1 series in the UK with reasonable success (batteries in the cold aside) and the i3 is an exciting prospect. Ok, it’s not going to set the world on fire with its looks, performance and range but……. Consider a World…
