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 … Continue reading My Agile On The Beach 2014
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 … Continue reading Mac Mini Hard Disk Upgrade with Clonezilla
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 … Continue reading Agile On The Beach #AGILEOTB #ATOB 2013 and 2014
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 … Continue reading Master Boot Record (MBR) Corruption and PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE)
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 … Continue reading Excited by the BMW i3
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