http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress Stuff you pick up on the way... Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:11:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Eric Evans & Crew are back in town for a day of Domain Driven Design. The guys at Skills Matter have put together a great agenda for Friday, June 19th. I'm very keen on going to see what cross over there is between domain modelling ... http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2009/06/02/skills-matter-domain-driven-design-day/ This is me with the mac waiting for QCon London's 2008 keynote by Kent Beck on Trends in Agile Development to kick off. QCon 2009 had notably fewer attendees than 2008. However, not knowing the exact numbers, it was still a large turnout for any technology based conference. Did ... http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2009/03/18/qcon-london-2009-how-was-it-for-you/ So it's that time of the year again. QCon London is back and I'm co-hosting the Architectures in Financial Applications track with Alexis. I'm trying something different this year. I've set up a twitter hashtag called #qconfinance so that the twitters in (and not in) the audience can post ... http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2009/03/03/qcon-london-next-week/ Back in 1993, I spent 60 glorious days travelling around the US on the Delta Pass. For 400 GBP, Delta Airlines gifted you a return flight from LHR, London to JFK, New York AND for 60 days free travel on any of its domestic flights. And with the ... http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2009/01/04/wikis-knowledge-source-or-sink/ Just over a year ago I watched the Introduction to Git video below on by Linus Torvalds and just had to switch it off after 10 minutes of play. I thought Linus was git and as a result didn't touch Git for six months. Then in May 2008, ... http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2008/12/30/from-git-to-god-in-six-months/ You've just gotta laugh, things just got serious... Mac vs PC - Transformers http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2008/12/29/mac-vs-pc/ Successful projects are continually planning. Big plans (release), small plans(iterations). The best plans are clear, simple and easy to change. Most importantly, plans are the result of a collaborative team effort. Successful teams value planning over plans. However, things are really broken when the reverse is ... http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2008/12/24/the-planning-game/ My eldest daughter has started finding the most bizarre games online. Some just for fun and really girly. And some are educational. This game, called Questionaut brings a much needed simplicity to kids games without all the razzle dazzle of today's high profile madness. Simple, fun, ... http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2008/12/14/games-are-the-way-to-learn/ I can't work without virtualisation. Period. I love my Mac and Parallels is an integral part of the way I work. I know there are some good competitors out there but if it ain't broken, why fix it. Parallels is by no means broken so there ... http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2008/12/13/parallels-saved-my-life-again/ Damned that was a pretty full on couple of months. No time to do jack. Anyway, I'm seeing a little bit of daylight. Well QCon in Finance Exchange was a great day. Some great talks and a good crowd of people. However, no rest for ... http://www.clevegibbon.com/wordpress/2008/10/30/qcon-london/