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Agile Development

Allen Guest — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:45:56 GMT

Since starting at my job in 2008, I have had the pleasure of working with a mature, skilled agile development team. I am working with Thoughtworks employees, where Martin Fowler is the Chief Scientist.

I've learned quite a few things from the people at Thoughtworks on agile methodology and the agile software development life cycle and just want to throw out my appreciation and the tip of my hat to these skilled people.

Who said an old dog can't learn new tricks?

Back to Canada

Allen Guest — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:44:39 GMT

Well not entirely - I'm still working in Seattle, but yes, I moved back to good old Canada.

Decided to try independent contracting up there - we'll see how it goes as well. Threw together a web site at http://www.onshoresoftware.ca with some personal information about myself and experience.

I'd like to get something going in Calgary but its been a bit of a slow process since I spend half of my time down here and 3/4 of my time STILL working while I'm in Calgary.

Anyhow if you have any solid leads in Calgary for an experienced C# .NET developer / applications lead fire me an email at allen.d.guest (at) gmail.com.

Microsoft's XNA

Allen Guest — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:30:00 GMT

The beta2 version was released a couple of weeks ago and I have to say it's pretty awesome. For keeping up on the lastest developments bookmark http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/. Writing games got me addicted to coding back in the old Vic20 days and continues to be a hobby passion.

The consolidation of DirectX into a more unified managed framework is exciting and I hope to play with it over the next couple of weeks.