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Heads up: IBM is looking for top notch student hackers

As a thank you for following my blog, I’d like to introduce you to what I think is a great opportunity for the right students. My team is looking for two bright students for a 16 month, full-time internship opportunity with IBM.

NFi Is Looking for an Agile PM / ScrumMaster

NFi Is Looking for an Agile PM / ScrumMaster

I’m helping one of our clients – NFi

I need your designer glasses, your blue jeans and your black turtle-neck sweater

Picture of a new MacBook ProOk so it’s not quite Schwarzenegger but last week I terminated a twenty year relationship with Microsoft and bought a Mac.

Toward an Agile Career Development Methodology

Since finishing The Passionate Programmer I’ve been putting a lot of thought into how to package the advice from the book into something more structured, serial, and prescriptive.

The Amazon reviews for the book are almost all glowingly positive with the occasional piece of constructive criticism. Here’s one such excerpt from an otherwise positive review by Ira Laefksy which I agreed with and took to heart:

Live blogging BizConf Day 2

Obie Fernandez and Roy Singham

Day 1 of BizConf was phenomenal and I’m going to try and keep up the live blogging for day 2. I missed the lightning talks last night but heard great things from everyone who went. I’ve got my camera charged up today so I’ll try and get some pictures of the presenters as well.

Change in line-up

I got an e-mail last night suggesting that Jason Hoffman won't be able to attend the conference. It seems that this is indeed the case. These things happen, I suppose!
However, as a motivational speaker might tell you, these sort of things are not problems, but opportunities, and in fact, its all turning out rather well!

Instead ofJason, we can now hear from Fred George - a former ThoughtWorks Vice President, Agile Guru and someone with 40 years experience in IT - who has written code not just in Ruby, but 60 other languages!

Introduction to BDD with Cucumber

Cucumber is a framework for writing and executing high level descriptions of your software’s functionality. Call these tests, examples, specifications, whatever… it doesn’t matter too much. What I’m talking about has traditionally been called functional, integration, and/or system tests. In XP terms this includes tests called Story Tests, Customer Tests, and/or Acceptance Tests.
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Things I mentioned in my Ruby Nation presentation

I had a great time at Ruby Nation this weekend. After my presentation I got a number of questions asking about things I referenced during the talk. Here’s an attempt to point to some of them. If you weren’t there, you won’t have any context but feel free to follow the links anyway You might find something interesting.

My Book

Bureau of Labor Statistics Time Use Survey

A Quick Chat with Chetan Mittal of Mortar Systems

Chetan Mittal

Satish>> Chetan, could you tell us something about yourself – your background, where you are based?

My aproach for doing “DDD on Ruby” – Introduction and Part I

Introduction

We all know that in Domain-Driven Design it is good to express our domain with simplicity and “pureness” and for that we usually go for a POxO (Plain Old {fill_with_your_preffered_language} Object) approach. The problem is that the ORM solutions I’ve found for Ruby make us either inherit from some base class or do the mappings directly into our classes. By no means am I saying that they aren’t good, but we are talking about DDD and the idea of having a pure domain layer without distractions is something we should embrace.

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