http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/category-55 en 2008 NickR unknown_webmaster@acme.heaven 53.8481 -1.829 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:26:08 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 59 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-86-not-been-round-much-.-some-good-news http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-86-not-been-round-much-.-some-good-news Not only did I take some time away from things (work, training) over Easter to get a break, but I find out 2 weeks ago my wife is pregnant, which is really really good news as its something we've been hoping will happen for a while. And to top it off I decided to reinstall my PC which went pear shaped, and then I broke my laptop power supply (snapped the connector), so I have also been without a computer for a while whilst I buy new parts for my PC and wait for new power supply for my ... more NickR Blog Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:49:26 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-86-not-been-round-much-.-some-good-news#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/86 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/86 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A86 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-87-agile-development http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-87-agile-development YACS has been agile for a while... A while ago I posted about starting a project using agile processes, well I've started it. I've used Extreme Programming as a basis. I realised that how we currently work is rather agile already, so its not taken a huge change (I've avoided using buzz words with the other developers and some have not realised what I am trying out). What has been lacking is not in the development, but in the way projects have been managed, hopefully, the XP information I have read through will help, especially planning iteratively and not ... more NickR Blog Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:24:59 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-87-agile-development#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/87 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/87 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A87 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-85-trying-debian-and-gentoo http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-85-trying-debian-and-gentoo Had a break away from work (and my computer) and now I've caught up with things I've decided to have a play with different Linux distros. Firstly I am in the middle of installing Gentoo (Just built the Kernel), this is mainly for the re-learning of how to install linux the manual way (I last did this about 8 years ago with slackware) and the other is Debianwhich I will install at a later date. Another possible is SUSE, but still researching that distro. I'm not looking at any other Redhat like distros as Caos is good (yum/rpm based), and ... more NickR Blog Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:53:47 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-85-trying-debian-and-gentoo#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/85 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/85 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A85 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-84-martyn-hit-by-a-goose-through-windscreen http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-84-martyn-hit-by-a-goose-through-windscreen One of my best friends Martyn Ranyard was hit by a Goose on the motorway. It went through the windscreen of his Bosses Skoda. Last week it managed to hit the news ! Terror at 70mph as a goose smashes through the car windscreen SMASHED BY GOOSE DOING TON Kamikaze goose destroys Skoda More photos can be found on Flickr - ranyardm - goose NickR Blog Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:17:13 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-84-martyn-hit-by-a-goose-through-windscreen#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/84 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/84 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A84 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-83-yacs-7.3-out http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-83-yacs-7.3-out New version out, lot of bugs fixes and tweaks, one useful feature for me is that there is an integrated flash mp3 player, this is useful to me because in the new few weeks I will be building a website for a rock band and this functionality will be a bonus as they do have various tracks that they want available for download. For more info visit YACs 7.3 NickR Blog Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:08:01 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-83-yacs-7.3-out#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/83 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/83 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A83