I’ve updated my ‘Essence of agile’ haiku page with a couple of new ones.  I think I’m counting one of them as post-agile.  I expect there will be more as I work through my own post-agile principles.

I’ve just updated my celerity gem and it seems to fix all of the warnings that were flooding my scripts before.

Performance is still a touch disappointing with our website, but the changes make it much more usable (and there’s an option to turn javascript off now according to the docs at http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=34490).

After moving my hosting, the basic content is back online, minus the last two posts.  Sorry for the interruption!

After repeated issues trying to get what I thought would be a simple ‘If controller’ working in JMeter, it looks like my issue is to do with the poor examples on the JMeter site. Or else something is making my version and or/installation behave differently. While the example provided on the JMeter site would have led [...]

When I’m running tests and tools, I frequently want to know how far through I am.  I’d built a class to help with this a while back, but Corey Goldberg’s recent post on a python version prompted me to post this Ruby version. First, you’ll need to save this to progress_bar.rb: class Progress_bar attr_accessor :items_to_do, :items_done [...]

Presstimate:

The number you give to get a manager off your back when you’re being hassled to give an estimate; Your best guess of what estimate of effort management will accept, not how long the work will actually take.

I knew the market wasn’t quite what it was, but this job ad today surprised even me.

 

ANZTB (http://www.anztb.org/) are hosting a free half day workshop with Rex Black on Risk-based testing.  The workshop is on December 8th in Sydney and December 9th in Melbourne.  Contact Karen Haig at info@anztb.org if you’re interested in attending.  As of this morning there were 17 places left for Melbourne.

I’ve had past conversations with others on the topic of intellectual property rights of employees in Australia, and had always been under the belief that pretty much anything I did in a creative capacity would belong to my employer.  Today I was pointed to this article, which suggests that’s not really the case.

Of course, for simplicity and to avoid any legal action, most people will still take care to separate their entrepreneurial activities as much as possible from their work.  Colleagues frequently leave their current role to go off and fully develop something they’ve been working on secretly.

So if you’re interested, this article has a good discussion of the state of play for employees, employers and their IP rights - 

http://www.findlawaustralia.com.au/articles/default.asp?task=read&id=16492&site=CN