Viva la Chipperfish

Agile Development in a Box, part 2.

It looks like my dream has come true. Great job, Jim! [via Blue Sky on Mars]

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TECHcoffee 1.0 – People Actually Showed Up!

Complete review posted on the TECHcoffee blog.

In other news, it’ll be an exciting two weeks for coders in Chicago. RailsConf is this week, and Yet Another Perl Conference next week… Me? I’m just going to sit here and drink some coffee.

If you happen to be in town for either RailsConf or YAPC, stop on by [...]

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Picked to present Selenium at Google’s Conference on Test Automation

Woo-hoo! I just got an email from Allen Hutchison at Google that my presentation proposal has been selected for Google’s London Test Automation Conference.

Here’s a short excerpt from my proposal:

In my talk, I would explore the use of Selenium in a fully integrated “web testing appliance” setup. With Selenium, some clever Python scripting, [...]

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TECHcoffee update – it’s on…

The first TECHcoffee will be on Monday, June 19th, 6-8 a.m. in the Loop. location: Caribou Coffee (Northwest corner Lake/La Salle)

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TECHcoffee – “running club” meets “study hall”

On Friday, I posted a message to the Chicago Python list about the possibility of doing weekly code sprints.

excerpt: “… which got me thinking even more… what if every week there was a “mini-sprint” held at some central location downtown where folks can meet up and code. Kind of like a running club, but for [...]

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