In the last few weeks of 2008 I spent a bit of time converting Jonathan Shewchuk’s adaptive floating-point predicates (included in his Triangle library) into C#. I don’t want to bash on this too much: the algorithms in question, and the technical proofs behind them, are wonderful things. The implementation is rock solid, providing a [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Don’t repeat yourself
Posted in Software development on December 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My apologies
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Before I move onto writing about some other stuff, I have one last thing to say about the Agile Disease, and that’s “sorry”. I was undoubtedly over the top in my tone, and was rude to a number of people (corporate IT developers, consultants in general, and a specific lists of consultants). Clearly, I have [...]
Fraternising with the Dark Side
Posted in Management, Software development on December 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I just stumbled upon this in the Scrum development newsgroup:
On the Scrum Trainers Yahoo site, this was posted in reference to Halliwell’s blog by a trainer who trained Halliwell in Scrum. I removed the trainers’ (last) names (by the way, Halliwell did soften his rhetoric in a followup blog entry):
Interesting. Paul and I [presented] a [...]
