Simon Roberts

Just finished refurbishing an Apple eMate (from eBay) with new battery cells and repaired screen hinges #
End result is a near perfect eMate with very long on-battery time – now in the hands of my 7-year old! #

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Waiting to see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace #
At the Tower of London #

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Visiting the Roman Palace at Fishbourne #

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At Lulworth Cove having lunch. After lunch will be walking to Durdle Door #
Drinking a pint of Badger beer while waiting for the food #
On the beach at Lulworth Cove #
On the beach at Durdle Door #

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Been up to London to see the stage production of the Lion King – fabulous #
Installing iLife ‘08 and iWork ‘08 #

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Just finished facilitating a Sprint planning meeting for a team’s second Sprint. #
Next some coaching on how to run a Scrum of Scrums and take an agile approach to architecture #
Back in dirty, smelly, vibrant, exciting London after 10 months away #

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In PairProgrammingMisconceptions Martin Fowler makes some very good points and I agree with everything that he writes. However, I think that there is an important point that he has not mentioned: what are the alternatives?
In traditional software engineering projects, there has been widespread use of peer review (design reviews, code inspections, code walkthroughs etc.) as [...]

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Facilitated retrospective at end of the first Sprint of a new Scrum team that I am coaching. #
Showing the team’ s ScrumMaster how to update the Product Backlog and Release Burndown at the end of the Sprint. #
Hunting for a sand timer for tomorrow’s Sprint planning. #
Trying out Quicksilver – a very cool launcher and [...]

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In the forest

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Finished HP 7 yesterday. Good ending. Putting it back on the bookshelf I noticed that it is considerably shorter than it’s two predecessors. #
Arrived in Munich. Two days of work and then off to England for some holiday. #
It’s a real shame that phoned-in Twittergrams don’t work from non-US numbers. #

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