http://tedyoung.blogsome.com It's the People and the Process: Pay attention to the People doing the as well as the Process. If the people don't work well together, no process will help. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:53:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After I wrote yesterday’s blog, I knew I’d forgotten something, but forgot what it was that I actually forgot (I believe that’s first-order forgetting). Now I remembered (actually I remembered during this morning’s run): questions. Not my questions (as the interviewer), but your questions (as the candidate). Maybe ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2009/11/22/how-to-do-your-best-in-a-technical-interview-part-ii-questions/ I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but after some frustrating interviews, I was motivated to finally put it down into words. We’ve been interviewing a lot lately at my company (Guidewire Software, in case you’re interested) and I’d like to offer some tips on how to do ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2009/11/21/how-to-do-your-best-in-a-technical-interview/ If you’ve followed my tweets, you already know that I’m participating in the November PragProWriMo, or the Pragmatic Programmers Writing Month. It’s not a contest or anything, but it is an opportunity to start writing what might become a book, or just a series of blog posts.Note that these are ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2009/11/02/pragprowrimo-day-1/ The Art of Lean Software Development, 1st Edition by Curt Hibbs; Steve Jewett; Mike Sullivan From O’Reilly Media, Inc. Published February 2, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-596-51731-1 Pages: 144   I’ve already read James Shore and Shane Warden’s "The Art of Agile Development", and ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2009/02/01/book-review-the-art-of-lean-software-development-1st-edition/ Looks like I’ve been doing a lot more Twittering (see http://twitter.com/jitterted) than blogging the last couple of months. One thing I like about Twitter is it allows me to write down short ( http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2009/01/17/follow-me-on-twitter/ I’ve been reading lots about Kanban ever since David Anderson talked about his experience at the Nov 3rd (2008) BayAPLN meeting. On the Kanban developer email list, a new book on the topic was announced, "Scrumban", so I immediately went over to Lulu.com and purchased it. I’ll probably start reading ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/12/20/kanban-book/ The presentation "slides" are here: http://www.tedmyoung.com/EasingIntoAgile.pdf.Note that the content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.Question, comments, criticism, etc., are always welcome. http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/11/12/easing-into-agile-slides-from-silicon-valley-code-camp-2008/ I don’t know about you, but I’ve got code in my code base that still uses arrays and we need to move them to Lists. Sounds like fun, huh? Well, a new refactoring in IDEA 8.0, Type Migration, is going to help a lot in this task. The other feature that ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/two-idea-80-features-worth-the-price-to-upgrade/ Yeah, IDEA 8.0 has been out almost a week, but I’ve been so busy with the Code Camp preparations, I didn’t have time to focus on it.I’ve been using 8.0 since the first Early Access builds, and it’s been a very solid product all the way through. There were some ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/intellij-idea-80-released/ If you attended my "Easing Into Agile" or "Building Better Tests in Java" sessions at the Silicon Valley Code Camp 2008, I’d love to hear any feedback, compliments, constructive criticism, and any questions that you might have thought of. The code camp eval for the Agile session is here: http://tr.im/yqi ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/silicon-valley-code-camp-2008-feedback/