Agile coach and co-author of Ship It
Jared Richardson, co-author of Ship It! A Practical Guide to SuccessfulSoftware Projects, is a speaker and agile coach at 6th Sense Analytics. Jared has been in the industry for more than fifteen years as a consultant, developer, tester, and manager.
Until recently he was an independent consultant focused helping teams build better software. He's now bringing that same focus to 6th Sense Analytics and their clients, using both the 6th Sense toolset and his unique experience. Jared can be found online at Agile Artisans and the Sixth Sense Analytics blog.
Presentations by Jared Richardson
Continuous Integration with Cruise Control
Continuous Integration is increasingly recognized as a vital practice in an Agile software shop. Traditionally it's been difficult to set up and administer. Today, that's no longer the case.Gradual Agile: The Secret to Introducing Agile Practices
Agile practices are popular because they work, but getting people to take that first step can be tricky.Agile Software Testing Strategies
Creating and maintaining a solid automated test suite is critical to an Agile strategy, but often we're just told to "Do it." In this talk we'll look at several pragmatic strategies for creating and building your suite.Subversion: A Quick Start Guide
Subversion is a free source code management system that's very powerful.Shippers Unite!
An overview of the Agile software approach from the book Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects.Distributed Teams: Remote Agility
How do you keep a team scattered across time zones in sync?Techniques 2008
There are a number of great techniques you can use across technologies and projects. Come hear some of my favorites and contribute a few of your own. We'll discuss topics from DRY to creating a zone defense for your product.Credit Card Software Development: Recognizing and Repaying Technical Debt
Technical debt has long been recognized in technical circles for years, but convincing your manager to budget time to repay "technical debt" has always been problematic. Let's couch the term technical debt concept in language more familiar to our managers: credit card debt.Restoring Agility: Getting Your Team Back on Track
An agile team is first and foremost "a team". When that gets lost in the rush to get a product out the door, the people suffer as well as the products. It's bad for the company, but even worse for the team members. We'll learn how to defuse some of the more common problems you'll run into on dysfunctional teams.10 Tips for Getting Your Project Back on Track
Software projects fail over and over for many of the same reasons. We'll look at some of the more avoidable problems and some solid ways to fix them, or avoid them in the first place.Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life
Has your career been a random product of your manager's whims or company's needs? Never rely on your company to keep your skills current and marketable. Take control of your own career with a proven strategy.Build Teams, Not Products
A great team builds great software, but how do you build a great team?Be Heard: Public Speaking for Techies
Most people fear public speaking more than death, but you don't have to let it handicap you or your career. Learn solid techniques for managing yourself, your content, and your audience.Books by Jared Richardson
by Compiled by Neal Ford, various authors, including Jared Richardson
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Take 13 of the world's best trainers and speakers and ask them to write a chapter on something they care passionately about. The result? A book on software development unlike any other. Fifteen chapters covering the range of modern software development topics, from Domain-Specific Languages through Aspect-Oriented CSS to learning from the past.
These essays are a summary of the latest thinking in the industry, and range from the philosophical to the tutorial, covering the topics that the writers felt were the most important for readers today. If you feel like the neatest technology and latest ideas are passing you by, this book can help bring you back you to speed.
It's all good stuff, without any fluffy filler, as these essays are based on presentations given at the incredibly popular "No Fluff, Just Stuff" symposium series. Twenty-six times a year, the symposium visits a city and the speakers and attendees share ideas and perspectives. The speakers are all internationally known experts in their field. - Available At: http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/nfjs06/index.html
by Jared Richardson and Will Gwaltney Jr.
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Many software projects run into trouble, and many never ship at all. Others run like well-oiled machines. This book shows you the basics of how to get your project well on the road to success.
Ship It! bucks current fashion trends and marketing hype; instead, you'll find page after page of solid advice, all tried and tested in the real world. This book offers a collection of tips that show you what tools a successful team has to use, and how to use them well. You'll get quick, easy-to-follow advice on modern techniques and when they should be applied.
"...What I love about this book is that I can hand it to any developer or manager and know that the advice is relevant to their project. It doesn't matter if they're already using a formal process or they have no process at all. Without the practices outlined in this book, every project is at risk of not shipping on time to happy customers. And so it should come as no surprise that I'll be highly recommending Ship It! to every project I visit... " -Mike Clark
- Available At: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/prj/
Agile Artisans
Jared's Blog
Monday, June 30, 2008
For those of you who are wondering if Ruby is enterprise worthy, then eRubyCon is for you. The speaker list is a "Who's who" of Ruby development and a stellar slate for any conference.
If you're into Ruby or Rails, I strongly encourage you to check out this event.
eRubyCon.com
If you're into Ruby or Rails, I strongly encourage you to check out this event.
eRubyCon.com
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Jennette Mullaney was kind enough to attend my talk Continuous Integration, The Cornerstone of a Great Shop talk in Las Vegas. We spoke for a bit afterwards and she put it all together into a nice interview.
Continuous integration reduces bugs, increases productivity
Enjoy!
Monday, June 2, 2008
Ken, one of NFJS's best speakers, speaks tonight at Agile RTP. He'll be giving his well-known Iteration Zero talk.
I may not be there (my wife's under the weather), but Ken's a great speaker. If you're in the RTP, NC area, I'd encourage you to come out.
I may not be there (my wife's under the weather), but Ken's a great speaker. If you're in the RTP, NC area, I'd encourage you to come out.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Joe Armstrong's blog entry has some great quotes and insights. This type of thinking is exactly why you need to learn another language.
The Road we didn't go down
If you don't learn to think in a language like Erlang, you'll never be able to fully bring those idioms and paradigms back to your day job language. I'm simply repeating the advice of the Pragmatic Programmers from nearly a decade ago, but learn a new language every year.
And as any weightlifter will tell you, if you're not sore when you're done, you weren't working out. You were coasting. No pain, no gain applies to your brain as well as your back. So if you pick a new technology too close to what you already know, it might feel too easy. If so, back up and adjust your technical workout plan. Hit the muscles you haven't used in a while.
Feel the burn! ;)
The Road we didn't go down
If you don't learn to think in a language like Erlang, you'll never be able to fully bring those idioms and paradigms back to your day job language. I'm simply repeating the advice of the Pragmatic Programmers from nearly a decade ago, but learn a new language every year.
And as any weightlifter will tell you, if you're not sore when you're done, you weren't working out. You were coasting. No pain, no gain applies to your brain as well as your back. So if you pick a new technology too close to what you already know, it might feel too easy. If so, back up and adjust your technical workout plan. Hit the muscles you haven't used in a while.
Feel the burn! ;)
Friday, May 23, 2008
When I set up my stats I looked around a few times for some examples and never found anything. I finally got mine working recently, so I posted my formats as much for my own reference as anyone else.
First, this web server is nginx. Changing the log format is trivial. My nginx.conf log_format block looks like this:
Then awstats has to consume the log. Of course it doesn't use the same configuration language, but it's not too bad. My awstats.conf looks like this:
No rocket science here, but maybe it'll save you some time figuring it out for yoursel
First, this web server is nginx. Changing the log format is trivial. My nginx.conf log_format block looks like this:
log_format main '$remote_addr [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent"';
Then awstats has to consume the log. Of course it doesn't use the same configuration language, but it's not too bad. My awstats.conf looks like this:
LogFormat = "%host %time1 %methodurl %code %bytesd %referer"
No rocket science here, but maybe it'll save you some time figuring it out for yoursel
