Agile Chronicles #8: Demo, Burnout, and Feature Juggling

The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) ... an all star team was put together, and how the CEO (the one writing the series of blog entries) discussed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:05:21

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Developer happiness and associated meetings

Dev8D Other visits UKOLN, Bath Southampton Kings College Birkbeck This is a report on my trip to the UK in February 2009 ... Steen and team put on and called The Developer Happiness days but Julian Cheal has an article ... as a general rule, not as the exception. Encouraging and enabling free and easy communication [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 04:53:48

Women’s Judo is more than Just a sport

I found an article interesting by JudoForum. A group of women to WATER began their own national team of judo and Sambo. Why is it so special? ... the team of judo of WATER well, and I hope that they help to support the judo in their country ... towards America that Obama is really serious about building HSR: LaHood indicated that for Obama [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 17:43:08

Upcoming 2009 Releases — Part Two

Back in August, I posted an article HERE that showcased Upcoming 2009 Book Releases ... of endless horrors.These three and their team have kept humanity in the game, but that’s not good enough [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 08:01:00

Bobby Clarke is getting senile

I was going to write this article lambasting Bobby Clarke about calling out Jason Spezza on TSN's Off The Record, ... a team throws, or bruises a team inflicts, has no literal bearing on the scoresheet. When teams play ... , are they afraid of Georges Laraque or Alex Kovalev? The league's best team is built around pure skill [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 18:46:00

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 1/19/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles ... of 1/20/2009 explains why OMAF will stick with LINQ to SQL until the ADO.NET team releases EF v2. Many comments to the ADO.NET Team’s Migrating from LINQ to SQL to the Entity Framework: Stored [more...]

Date: 2009-01-26 20:25:00

It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

I don't mean to pick on Jeff Blair, but I was lured into reading his article about the Minnesota Wild this morning and am left rather puzzled as to ... about our team at the all-star break, by Doug Risebrough, president and general manager." No need ... , but a dispassionate analysis, in this case, of why his team is scoring less along with an obvious [more...]

Date: 2009-01-27 13:52:00

Practice Preparation is Deliberate

The folks at OpenEducation.net informed me of a couple articles recently written about deliberate practice, ... and challenging work second to second -- we provide leadership and team building opportunities for the players ... of players or students in his or her classroom. Some students have no experience with the topics [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 19:15:48

We need 1997 capitalism plus social justice

At 6pm yesterday I posted an article by Michael Fallon MP on the banking crisis ... regulations and taxes. I worry sometimes that Team Cameron is too fascinated by new ideas like 'nudging' and 'Red Toryism'. All new ideas are worthy of study but conservatives should always prefer [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 07:14:02

GALAXY's Beckham will be back, Italian deal now dead [UPDATED]

The New York Times is reporting in several articles, including their Sunday print edition, ... flatly turned down by the Galaxy prior to the LA team's deadline set as being last Friday, February ... 9 for training camp.  Despite the passing of the deadline, statements from the Milan camp continued as did [more...]

Date: 2009-02-22 10:54:17

More Frugal Youth Marketing: Learn From Scion

Recently I posted some frugal youth marketing tips, ... the winning team gets $5K to spend on supplies (a lot for many cash strapped schools). From the article ... to their brand) while these students learn to think like marketers, building media literacy skills [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 17:15:55

10 Reasons to Hold Retreats to Build Your Business

I read this article on the Brandchannel.com website at http://www.brandchannel.com/brand_speak.asp? ... text is included in full underneath my comments. Team retreats, much like those discussed ... building. While team building is typically a secondary objective, it often becomes the biggest [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 18:43:52

Six Roadblocks for Top-Level Teams -- And How to Get Around Them

The September issue of the Center for Creative Leadership's Leading Effectively newsletter offers this article on why it's so difficult to build a senior level (CEO and direct reports) leadership team. CCL's Doug Riddle reveals six inherent roadblocks to successful top-level teams: 1. The spotlight is bright [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 02:16:23

Building a successful MLM Internet Business

by Julieanne van Zyl This article gives you three keys to building a successful Internet Network Marketing Business ... . 2. Constantly motivate your team . Offline, this is regularly carried out in the form of motivational seminars ... efforts who come to share their “secrets”, provide tips and techniques during the seminar and generally [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 10:30:39

316 Recap and Analysis by Erika

Here is the Episode 5.06 - 316 recap from Erika Olson (aka "e") from LongLiveLocke.com . Some of you may remember this article I linked to last fall in which Lost writer Brian K. Vaughan (one of the creative team members who signed my Season Four DVDs , yay for me!) proclaimed [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 17:39:00

Building a successful MLM Internet Business

by Julieanne van Zyl This article gives you three keys to building a successful Internet Network Marketing Business ... . 2. Consistently motivate your team members and downlines. Offline, this is commonly carried ... the seminar and generally motivate people to keep at it. So, how can you do this particularly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:41:42

A Different Take on The Immigration Problem

image from http://www.magazineusa.com/ Not sure entirely what I was expecting when I clicked on the title of this article, ... career prospects, and the comfort of being close to family and friends. Earlier research by my team [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 22:10:04

50 Management and Development Companies to Watch for 2009

This article briefly highlights 50 companies that are active in ASC management and development ... . Its senior leadership team now also includes CEO Luke Lambert, CFA, and CFO Robert Westergard, CPA [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 16:10:33

A Primer on Rugby: A Man’s Sport

Image from paloboza Rugby as it exists today is one of the most exciting contact sports in existence, ... very different games. This article will focus on Rugby Union, which is the more prominent of the two ... . The players on a team are broken down into two separate [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 01:42:09

Building a successful MLM Internet Business

by Julieanne van Zyl This article gives you three keys to building a successful Internet Network Marketing Business ... profitability. 2. Consistently motivate your team . Offline, this is popularly carried out in the form ... the seminar and generally motivate people to keep at it. So, how can you do this particularly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:41:25

Money Tips from MSN.com

Today, I stumbled upon this article through msn.com. I thought it was very interesting and therefore, am sharing it here ... to your favorite team -- or the opera. Treat a friend to dinner. After all, what would really make your month [more...]

Date: 2009-02-06 21:51:00

Asian Surveying and Mapping-Mapping Ancient Egyptian Sites

Feb25 Here is an interesting and fun article I found at the Asian Surveying & Mapping website about Egyptologist using surveying techniques and ... , copyright 2009 ASM.A team of Egyptologists used GPS, total stations and imagery to solve mysteries ... / ae.htm for more information on Yale’s archaeological activities in Egypt.Hundreds of viper trails [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 23:07:48

In Gaza, the Suffering Continues

Ethan Bronner opens his New York Times article about conditions in Gaza one week after Israel’s unilateral ceasefire in rather restrained fashion: ... had to wait. A team trained in trauma and group activities was running the assembly, and after the singing ... The boys clapped and sang to pulsating music. They played games and shouted. It could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-26 02:39:02

Third in the playground games series (anytime)

Several months ago I read an article about EnTeam, a St ... cooperative game strategies — it’s the same reason adults hunker down for team-building retreats, right [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 15:57:30

Steven Pinker gets his genome tested ...

... and discovers he has the Bald Gene.In a long article in the New York Times Magazine, "My Genome, My Self," ... forward on Michael Jordan's first three championship teams, would probably have become a quick forward if he hadn't grown up playing on youth teams alongside his identical twin Harvey Grant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 04:35:00

Article on Women’s Basketball in Clipper by TJ Cotterill

The following is an article that was published 2/27/09 in the EvCC’s student newspaper, The Clipper, by reporter TJ Cotterill ... s basketball team sits in fifth place (7-7) in the NWAACC North Division, two-and-a-half games behind ... It doesn’t help when you have the second group out there imitating the other team and those people [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 00:01:07

emotioneering article

we read this after the lazarro article on emotions huge differences between movies and games - but both want to make things interesting and make ... team will be more inspired to produce better game; emotional content and more complex games [more...]

Date: 2009-02-16 04:24:57

Daddy's Home!

Hello my dear Saturn brothers! Yes 'tis I the long absent Father Krishna, ... and thriving in the blogosphere, thanks to the wonderful team that keep it alive. So first of all a great big ... to present you with a five page article from 'games TM'. magazine, lovingly typed and transcribed [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 19:55:00

New Adobe XD INSPIRE Publication

Not sure when this was announced, but following a tweet from Rich Tretola ( @richtretola ), I found Adobe INSPIRE, described as “a publication from the Adobe Experience Design team.” It’ ... is working on.  The topics are similar to the RIA Buzz newsletter that they send out. One article to check [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 16:04:38

Does Gaming Make You More Productive?

Does Gaming Make You More Productive? Posted by Stuart Houghton at 10:40 AM on December 13, 2008 PC World Business Centre has an interesting article up about gaming in the workplace that looks at the way some companies are using games as team building tools, rewards and incentives. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 00:40:00

The whole story...

...and isn't it about time the media started telling it? An article in the current issue (3/2/09) of the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) ... Dome in hopes of luring an NFL team to Indianapolis.  That tax, which never was rescinded, established [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 23:19:06

Pétition contre l'utilisation d'armes radioactives - Petition against the use of radioactive weapons

.Gaza & Israël: Tous les articles importants - Série no ... For a second day running, Israeli authorities have barred a Red Cross medical team from entering [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:33:00

Top 5 computer games

Roughly a week ago I came across an article in a Swedish newspaper listing the greatest computer games of all time ... terrific modifications and conversions such as Team Fortress, Capture the Flag and Air Quake, this game [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 07:33:08

On Building Community At One Private Uni.

A reader encourages us to check out this article about Quest University, a very new private university north of Vancouver BC. Here's a little flava ... consists of team building and leadership exercises, preferably outdoors. Some of the activities today included trust exercises and the raising of a student-made Quest flag (we first had to dig a hole [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 10:54:00

America’s New Shrink?

I missed this article by Jonathan Alter until ShrinkWrapped brought it to my attention: America’s New Shrink Chin up, everyone ... with him and his team stretching back more than four years and extending into the White House, is that he has a firm grasp of the psychological and substantive challenges of the presidency. Equally important [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 20:18:36

Gabriel Rossi – Branding Strategist

Gabriel Rossi understands branding. He shares articles, insights and encouragement about branding via twitter every day ... in the importance of internal transparency and solid bonds with his team. What’s the result of emotional ... importance of creativity when facing tough times. Hyundai’s recent Assurance program was very smart [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 15:38:14

Story-Centered Design

Overview The title of this article is Story-Centered Design, but what it really concerns is taking an integrated, ... does not require technical knowledge from team members, and all are encouraged to participate ... for a number of reasons; stories help in defining a shared vision within the team, communicating [more...]

Date: 2009-02-21 20:34:54

Article: Using Lego Therapy to Help Aspergers Children with their Social Skills

This article appeared in the UK Times YesterdayHere's how to build your hopesParents of autistic children need not despair ... that the "team" (co-op) games where players have to help each other, are much better at fostering ... pieces, and the “builder” put the pieces together. After a time, they would swap roles.I might try [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 00:02:00

Some Great New Mix09 Sessions Posted

We recently got some great new Mix09 sessions posted. Here are a few that I think are cool as they directly relate to what my team is doing. ... -to-end building a data-centric Silverlight application.. Id like to show everything from access ... .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 03:55:22

World's Oldest Temple?

An interesting article, two actually, on Gobleki Tepe, an archaeological site in eastern Turkey that was viewed in the 1960s by a team ... us from Gobekli Tepe's builders is almost unimaginable. Indeed, though I stood among the looming [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 18:07:29

San Jose looms on the horizon

The Merc's Denis C. Theriault has an article today on where San Jose stands with respect to site and process ... be in pursuing the A's while the team is still focused on Fremont. Downtown area councilman Sam Liccardo appears ... ," Liccardo said, "I will clear my desk." We'll see if that's the quote of a champion for the cause [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 03:39:00

Article | Guy Gavriel Kay wades into the ‘Martin-itis’ debate

Leave it to Guy Gavriel Kay to talk some sense. In a recent article published by The Globe and Mail , Kay addresses the subject of book delays, ... and football games (and his favourite team) is that Martin has told them. On his blog ... worth debating whether an author engaged in a multivolume work that readers have bought [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 15:13:56

Chicago Jingle Ball Updates! StandUp2Cancer CHALLENGE!

Email your article links and scans and late afternoon tidbits to beckyfansofdavid@gmail.com. Angsty Chicago B96 Jingle Ball Updates! ... Pie (and all SU2C team captains) received a challenge from SU2C, starting at midnight last night ... NOW and December 31st, SU2C is asking each team to raise $1000 dollars in honor of someone [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 23:01:02

future sites, and datamining with teeth

SEED magazine had a tiny article about how web datamining is an inefficient way to conduct scientific inquiry with large datasets, ... the scientific questions that a research team happen to have decided to ask. I’d like to expand upon ... be used by science for the common good. Simply put, there’s nothing to stop you from building [more...]

Date: 2009-02-14 21:18:12

Afghan women jailed for being victims of rape

I am re-posting the entire article because of its terminal sentence: Beneath the anonymity of the sky-blue burqa, ... government officials from the province’s reconstruction team are also overseeing a project to build [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 13:55:40

Why Training Investment is a Failure to Most Organizations

Reading a recent Wall Street Journal article I was flabbergasted to learn of organizations that are recently increasing the amount of leadership ... are attempting work on both leadership and team building skills. With careful analysis of both value ... I have watched organizations attempt team building. I enjoy seeking an organization try to mend [more...]

Date: 2009-02-19 16:10:11

Monday Morning Roundup

David Lord follows up Moore's weekend article about what's wrong with the Dallas defense with some possibilities on why those things are wrong . If this is a lack of team quickness or team intellect, that's on management for assembling players who can't play or think. If this is a lack of team understanding, that's on the coaches [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 14:20:28

The Biggest Loser S07E08 PDTV XviD-LMAO

This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content ... with one of the longest challenges ever, in which each team tries to put as many miles as they can on their bike ... and black, leaving many players without their original trainer. Drama ensues, especially with one team [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 04:22:36

The New ROI -- Listen, Learn, Adapt: Return on Insight - Does it work for nonprofits?

Photo by Jeff Pulver David Armano has an article on BusinessWeek called "The New Focus Group: The Collective" ... of mining the data for insights is akin to anthropology and that the team should be "digital ... ?" 3. Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed? 4. Are you building a culture in which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 21:59:24

'Cause after all, he's just a vasopressin receptor

To a recent article about metamaterials ("Chinese boffins crack invisible-shed problem", 9/3/2008) ... , volcanoes, orbital decay, intellectual languor and decline of moral standards in team sport ... , intellectual languor and decline of moral standards in team sport, it'll be hard to top the past week's [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 11:38:00

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