Posted by Mike on May 10th, 2010
Iwein Fuld posted a great article about different styles of pair programming. It’s a great post, and I encourage you to read it if you’ve tried pairing but haven’t bought in yet. His rally car analogy is spot-on.
My favorite driver is an outspoken dutch guy. He’s quick on the wheel and if he doesn’t [...]
Posted by Mike on May 1st, 2010
The Aventail VPN client requires Sun Java to correctly function on Ubuntu. For whatever reason, the OpenJDK is not sufficient, and the client exhibits numerous bugs. Unfortunately, for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Canonical decided to move Sun Java to the partner repository. It’s no-longer apt-get-able by default.
No worries, we can easily add the [...]
Posted by Mike on May 1st, 2010
I was over at my buddy Chad’s garage again tonight tinkering with his 1958 Chevy pickup. Chad bought the truck when he turned 16 and planned to restore it and drive it all through college. Ten years later, the truck still doesn’t run. To an untrained eye, there’s little different from when he [...]