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Technology
Over the years, I have experienced many different styles of software development. In the early days, most of the development was Waterfall development. In the last few years, I’ve become an advocate of Scrum. As I talked about last month, many people have misconceptions about what Scrum really is. The reason why we do Scrum at Veracity is because of the difference it makes in the life of the team doing Scrum. Software is for people, and happy motivated people will build better software. However,...
We're on our way to making diabetes and other drug dependent illnesses much less of a hassle to deal with. Check out this article. Non-invasive and probably could be powered by flexing of the patch, if they get creative. One of the most difficult things for diabetes patients is the constant finger pricking. For kids, this is especially painful. With something like this, a parent to make sure that their kids sugar was in control and be certain that their kid was getting the right dose of insulin....
My wife's thyroid just up and quit one day. At present, the way they know that is you get your blood drawn, and they run a Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) test to see what level it's at. .5 - 4.5 is good, anything below .5 means you're producing too much thyroxine, and anything about means you're not producing enough. Your pituitary gland is what generates the TSH in the body, and your thyroid controls your metabolism--if it doesn't work, EVERYTHING slows down and eventually stops. Currently, she...
Check out this article on News.Com. Big brother is watching. The technology is cool though. :)
Had three interviews yesterday, all from very large companies. The first interview was unlike anything that I've ever experienced. Many of the questions were "masked" and the interview flowed like a conversation, not an interview. Very relaxing although I think back to all of the things that I missed and am left to wonder how well I did. It was a fun interview though. This position would require me to relocate, which is a huge downer for it, but we'll see what happens. The next interview was also...