Deep Agile 2009: Agile for Embedded Systems
Sponsored by Agile Bazaar, New England’s agile community hub
Join us for a two-day deep dive into Agile practices for embedded systems. We’ll get beyond superficial prescriptions and cookbook advice to understand how a methodology that demands extreme flexibility can work in an environment known for its rigidity. Jack Ganssle has the deep experience to pose the kinds of challenging questions all embedded folk want to ask, and James Grenning and Russel Hill have been practicing embedded agile programming long enough to give us answers grounded in experience, that is, *embedded* experience!
Host: Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, founder of Lean-Agile Partners
When: Saturday, April 25th – Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Where: Maxwell-Dworkin Building, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass
Cost: Regular registration: $545 through April 18th, 2009, Just in time: $685 through April 25th, 2009. Group discount, Hardship, Student and Academic staff (see the Deep Agile website). Save a further $50 by entering this discount code when you register: ABZlist_09.
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Aleptu is one guy’s gadget blog. Honestly I foget where I first got this link, but it’s this very cool “collection of collections” in the form of the periodic table. Very clever.
I was heavily involved in semantic web, ontologies, and natural language processing in my last company. I was supposed to work on that in my current company. In other words, I’ve been following this stuff for a while. The realization I came to is that, while it would be cool if everyone added all this metadata to their content on the Internet, and the cylons could take care of complex tasks for us automatically, like “Book me a room in a hotel near the Hynes Convention Center next Friday through Sunday with one queen size bed, bill it to my Visa card, and send the confirmation email to my Blackberry”, it’s not going to happen. The simple truth is it’s a lot more work than most content creators think is worthwhile, and adding metadata to existing content is nigh impossible. Just to save some businessman about an hour poking around the Internet for hotel recommendations and booking a room. Read on…
This is by no means an all-inclusive list, bu t it’s pretty good. From businesspundit.com, 5 Ways Companies Breed Incompetence. We could probably triple this in a couple of minutes over a beer or four.
Maybe this will help, but you can’t be sure.
I saw this t-shirt in Newbury Comics, but it’s not on their website.
From the Unemployed Philosopher’s Guild, I bring you The Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug. “Pour in a hot beverage and watch your civil liberties disappear! Mug features the complete text of the Bill of Rights, but pour in a hot beverage and see what remains thanks to the Patriot Act!” They go great with the Obamamints (Yes We Candy).
However, I’m having trouble with these USB Eye Warmers from X-Treme Geek. In case the cool cats in Marketing missed this point, when you put a mask over your eyes, it’s kinda hard to use your computer. But you have to leave it on to power the mask. You see where I’m going with this? How are you supposed to protect yourself from flying monkeys with your eyes covered?
Lastly, I have found a cheese worth the inevitable heart attack it will cause. Abbot’s Gold Caramelised Onion Cheese from Coombe Castle: “Smooth, creamy Cheddar combined with rich, sweet caramelised onions. Creating an amazing burst of flavour.” Best use so far? In an omlette with bacon bits. Yum.
From Digg: 16 of the Internet’s Weirdest Meat Creations. “From meat hats to bacon bras, giant burgers and outrageous barbeques, find out what the latest obsession really means.”
Usually I’m not into the whole food as a dare thing, let alone food as art or food as clothing, but as a collection, this one is interesting. Maybe, like these meat creations, seeing a big pile of them isn’t quite as scary as seeing them one by one.
And because I like contrast, we have this.