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- Thoughts On Our Natural Inability to Communicate Well
- Difference Between a Mindset and a Process
- Why Developers Don’t Want to Write Tests First
- Two Opposites: Right-Brain Extrovert vs Left-Brain Introvert
- Riding Again
- Maximiliano – Training the trained horse
- My first book: Smarter Software with Activity-Centered Design
- When your organization is a software company
- Resisting change due to lack of trust
- Teaching cues to Maximiliano
- Ruby Wrapper for IBM MQ
- A Real Pickup Truck
- Peruvian Paso Maximiliano arrives and meets Max
- The young not always do as told
- Road trip: 4 states and a Peruvian Paso gelding
- Max the Haflinger
- Leaving Panama
- Finally – Paddock right in front of the house
- Focus on making the commitment leads to low quality code
- Snake hides in a moving box
- Horses, cows and a view to the Pacific Ocean
- Estimation creates silos and prevents teams from developing solutions
- How to work with ATDD and micro-tests in different testing environments
- Embrace complexity – Don’t try to architect it
- Source code as final design document in hardware development
- Building a walking skeleton with the help of Cucumber scenarios
- The end of methodology
- The importance of craftsmanship
- Use of a Walking Skeleton in Acceptance Test Driven Development
- Not Everything That Counts Can be Counted
- Why does it always have to be a step by step process?
- Missed Opportunity: Scientific Paper on TDD
- Pseudo Scientific Management Kills Innovation And Creativity
- Remarkable insect
- Water is essential for new pasture during dry season
- Validation rules for form input in Acceptance Test Driven Development
- Acceptance Test Driven Development changes how you organize your project
- How to deal with sending email in Acceptance Test Driven Development with Cucumber
- Don’t tie Cucumber features 1:1 to stories
- Smells in Cucumber features
- Benefits of Acceptance Test Driven Development
- Acceptance Test Driven Development brings teams together
- Telling real stories in Acceptance Test Driven Development
- Acceptance Test Driven Development for Windows
- Build your own testing DSL
- Cucumber: When Programmers Have a Dream
- IPad for software developers
- Getting serious about iPhone and iPad development
- Farm plans on hold due to authority dragging their feet
- Teaching one handed Ruby on Rails after an accident
- Building a transmitter over the weekend
- Test-driven introduction to Spring Framework
- Peruvian mares mastering rough terrain very well
- 25 km and 10 river crossings
- Unwilling, stubborn or simply scared
- City girls – too afraid of creeks
- Right of Possession and local authorities that fear to act
- Building a temporary horse stable
- 30 km and different food can have a dramatic effect on a horse’s health
- Fine Peruvian Horses
- Meeting with the district administrator to complete the road
- Registering our brand
- Checkpoints everywhere during Carnival
- Crossing the “Brazo de Chuluganti” river
- Jeep as Logging Tool
- First baby trees in the tree nursery
- Where no car has gone before: what a great feeling
- Progress on our dirt road
- We are building a dirt road in the jungle
- Analysis of legal problems with Right of Possession
- The last 300 meters
- A path on top
- Hauling a tree with the Jeep
- Setting a specific HTTP return code in Tapestry event handlers
- Cherimoya fruit was seeded
- Started to seed in the new tree nursery
- Very pleased with the wood transport rikshaw
- Wood Rickshaw
- Nice doors and final paint job for the offroad trailer
- Doors for the offroad trailer
- Going off the road with our homemade trailer
- Using EasyMock to unit test Tapestry components and pages
- Setting up a tree nursery
- Homemade offroad trailer
- Making signs
- Making our own trailer hitch
- No solution yet to the legal issues
- There is a better access road
- Agreements are not always honored by all parties
- Clamp slabs together to saw poles
- Turning the guayacan log into slabs
- How to make wooden marker poles
- Think like a cow: pasture
- Land survey in the jungle
- Searching for wood and finding a "quebrada"; More weeding
- Fixing up and cleaning the rancho
- A farm in the rainforest – but with great cellphone coverage
- Removing a large jobo tree to unblock the access trail
- Pedron's hoof is getting better
- Our first two heads of cattle
- Buying cattle from a local farmer
- No luck today with the cattle purchase
- Buying cattle via Blackberry
- Pedron receives a house visit by the medical team
- Vaccines for our horses
- Where the rainforest is
- Flower and fruits
- Food and beverage in the wilderness
- How to do a land survey
- Rights of Possession in Panama
- Seems like this will be the access road (2/2)
- Seems like this will be the access road (1/2)
- Luzero's accident and rescue
- Luzero, Toby and Pedron visit a teak plantation
- Some more offroad fun
- Exploring a true jungle
- Sustainable Agriculture Network
- Another attempt at finding a good route for the access road (2/2)
- Another attempt at finding a good route for the access road (1/2)
- Didimo’s old and new home
- Snow Leopard update
- Our temporary home base
- The big trip to the farm for our new horses
- Horse Beauty Salon
- Picking up Luzero to join the others
- Saddles, Machetes, Lasso, etc.
- Finding horses
- Going all the way to the end of the road (2/2)
- Going all the way to the end of the road (1/2)
- Figuring out where to build an access road
- Sometimes leaving can be difficult
- Exploring the farm
- How the farm looks like at the moment
- Farming in the rainforest of Panama
- The final 2 km are on horseback
- How to get to the farm
- A farm in the rainforest of Panama
- Busy, busy, busy
- Authentication for Apache httpd against Unix accounts
- Left the city behind and went 4×4
- Small countries celebrate a little different
- IEEE Panama celebrates Dia del Programador
- Got invited to speak at IEEE Panama
- Launched
- Risk Factors for Offshore-Outsourced Development Projects
- Client-Server Computing: The Future Web?
- It doesn’t matter whether it works
- Team room
- Does Sustainable Pace mean a 40 hour week?
- Some businesses should stay away from Agile
- Psychological evaluation for Agile?
- The Browser is No Place for Multitasking
- The connection between accounting and sub-standard tools for developers
- What’s wrong with software development in large corporations
- Quality control in software development
- Thoughts on the ideal project team
- Outsourcing for start-ups?
- Another perspective on Command and Control
- PanamaJUG Conference
- PDF for my talk “Agile Development in Panama”
- On pair programming
- Cram the team into a small space or let them think
- Why do so many technology projects fail?
- Ohio for a few days
- An Agile Development Organization in Miami, Florida
- An Agile Development Organization in Tampa, Florida
- Announcement: I’m going to speak about Agile and Savila
- Coverage != testing
- Java and Mac OS X: it’s all about priorities
- Java on Leopard – enough complaining
- Stale Java for the Mac Faithful
- It’s the Software, Stupid!
- Adobe Demos “Thermo” RIA Design Tool to Delighted Crowd
- Van Gogh on personal productivity
- Scrum highlights poor software architecture
- Panama JUG: Two Day Conference
- Emerging Architect Roles
- Re: Silicon Valley is looking to do business in Latin America
- A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality
- Re: Is the SCM system an agile developers’ enemy?
- Write emails on Apple TV soon?
- Web businesses targeting Hispanics
- Is the SCM system an agile developers’ enemy?
- Silicon Valley is looking to do business in Latin America
- Windows dominates Linux due to piracy
- Comment on Cultural Sensitivity and the backlash of having none
- Multitasking considered harmful
- Potential good news for snowbirds and investors in Panama
- Deliver products on time and under budget with agile development
- Agile Development ranks #18 on CNN
- Indian CIOs have to offshore work
- Venture Capitalists demand outsourcing
- Someone interested hearing about software development in Panama?
- Additional article about reduction of tourist visa term to 30 days
- Developing countries and immigration laws
- It does make a difference whether you are just developing or using it
- Tasteful food for developers
- Why I love test-driven development
- Java o PHP para desarrollar una aplicación web
- The impact of roadblocks on residential tourism
- Java stack for all purpose development
- Evaluating technologies for new product development
- Starting to love EJB3 Hibernate Annotations
- Tapestry: first experiences
- Road trip with a surprise – Always carry your passport
- City is dead during Carnival in Panama
- Cerro Azul – Vacation Homes Between the Clouds
- Presented at 4th Geek Fest Panama
- UXcamp: Information Architects in Panama
- Most common mistake: start Swing applications off the right thread
- Smart brains in Panama
- [TSE] Meeting Requirements through Acceptance and Stress Testing
- [TSE] System Integration Testing with Spring
- [TSE] The Art of Domain Modeling
- [TSE] The Building Blocks of Domain Driven Design
- [TSE] Domain Driven Design
- Preparing for The Spring Experience
- Leading a mixed language development team
- Taxis in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
- The webtop – back in time?
- Latin American business culture
- The PC – An entertainment device
- Leisurely Sunday at the beach
- Walks around Panama City
- Welcome Antonio
- Quite fast
- Fiber Optics for Internet Access
- Why so many open source projects end up at Apache
- Maven2, Eclipse Callisto with WTP and Subclipse working together
- No default route for PPTP connections
- Washing machines seem to be a rare good
- Moving in
- Buying a washer or how to loose a customer
- Don’t install Java apps from the Ubuntu repository, if you want to use Sun’s JVM
- Fine Italian dining in Panama
- Sun Java VM on Ubuntu Linux
- iSCSI support in Linux
- It’s past 8 pm and there is some live accordion music from down the street
- Fourth day in Panama City
- iSCSI support in Linux
- Arrived in Panama and started working in my new office
- Box embargos are so annoying
- Cheap programmers on a ship anchoring off the coast of California
- We’re finally relocating to Panama


