If you haven't seen it yet, Johanna Rothman has a great series on “Schedule Games” over on her blog starting here

I received this information today via the Agile Project Management mailing list. The Lean-Agile Summit: a unique opportunity to meet and interact with the thought-leaders of Lean-Agile Software Development and Project Management. Come hear Rob Thomsett, Mary Poppendieck, and Sanjiv Augustine discuss how organizations can transform their IT to deliver greater business value by combining the principles of lean business management with agile project management. Great for Business Executives and Project...

This isn't news, just posting here so I can find it later. SQL Server 2005 pricing Enterprise $24,999 per server processor Standard $ 5,999 per server processor Workgroup $ 3,899 per server processor note: Log shipping now available with Workgroup Dell is selling servers pre-loaded with SQL Server SQL Server 2000 now has a Workgroup version...

I often hear people talk about personas. Although they correctly attribute them to Alan Cooper, the descriptions I hear often conflict with what I have read in Cooper's books and learned at his companies training seminars. In this post I will try to point out what I think are some important differences between what I have learned and what I often hear described. To try to keep things clear, I will refer to personas as I hear the typically described as Typical Personas (TP) and personas ala Cooper...

Two user groups in the Kansas City area will be holding their monthly meetings this Thursday (11/11/04). The locations are close enough you can attend both of them if you like (I'm usually just a little late for the start of the VFP meeting). Drop me a note or give me a call if you want to get together before or after the meetings. You can find more information about the SQL meeting here, and the Visual Foxpro meeting here...

I went to the T-mobile kiosk at the local mall and they gave me a new SIM card (I had an old VoiceStream card). This took care of the issue of the phone thinking it was in roaming mode. Then, after making a call to T-mobile, (the guys in the mall weren't familiar with the data services) to obtain the name of the access point, everything is up and running. Now I can get cramps in my fingers on my tiny keyboard and finish ruining my eye-sight on the tiny screen. Actually, for a tiny display, it really...

I've been a gadget junkie for quite a few years now and last night I found a SmartPhone with the greatest feature ever, it was free. While attending the .Net Mobility Road Show event last night in Overland Park, my name was picked first in the prize drawing and I won a Voq Professional Phone. This SmartPhone has a pretty cool fold out key board built into it. The phone recognizes when you open the keyboard and opens up a special application to immediately search for contacts or send an SMS message....

The .Net Mobility Road Show is going on in Overland Park, KS. this evening. Is anyone else in the K.C. area planning on attending

Jeff Julian and John Alexander did a presentation on Test Driven Developement for the Kansas City DotNet SIG this evening. The promised to post their slides and sample code to the DotNet Sig website soon

MSDN2 has been recently went live. Use it to find Whidbey documentation. If you would like to read some background info from the architect, go here