A New Beginning

Two weeks into trying out Dvorak hardly makes me into an expert on the keyboard layout, and chances are that my opinion about it will change...

It has been two weeks since I have switched to Dvorak and I really think it is something worth writing about. The topic of Dvorak just came ...

First of all, the criteria of the quality of life are rather subjective. If you do enjoy working on your project at home, then all I can say...

(This blog is entered using Dvorak input, which I am going to write a blog about after I either master it or give it up) Last Wednesday (Ma...

Adewale Oshineye sent me an email because there was a link from my profile page on ThoughtWorks linking to this blog, to ask me if I want to...

One thing that I found different working at ThoughtWorks, are the fellow ThoughtWorkrs. Here are three examples: Names I am the kind of per...

Managing and assisting a project development is more and more interesting to me nowadays. However, from time to time, I will run into some c...

On this day, there are two things that I want to mention. Normally I stick this blog to my working experience, but I figure everything has a...

My blog is really falling behind, yet I have little time to do catch up. There are so many things on my plate right now that I think I shoul...

So we have an opensource page built. I don't have something that I am very proud of (http://opensource.thoughtworks.com/people/shaneduan...

I read about early deployment in XP, I believe in early deployment in XP, still I didn't push it and now I am a little stressed out. Thi...

I did not realize the importance of office Friday until we did it last week. Last time we did it, I was working in the office so it was no m...

The tests cannot run in IDE anymore, again!! The only thing that I can think of is that people just don't use IDE to run tests. Honestly...

Everybody (well, I was singled out so I had to move along) took a bold move. Rather than spend all the time to sort out the different versio...

We have been working with the developers there on writing more and more unittesting coverage. However, now I am thinking that we probably sh...

Got in memory database working, thank you HSQLDB ! With this in place, we will be able to write some unittest or functional tests without wo...

Three Drofnats developers all use terminals, vi and cvs command line. So there was no easy way to check references or do the simplest refact...

Started the next project in, let's call it, Drofnats. Compared to the SFD that I visited two weeks ago, this one is just the oppsite. Th...

Another day at the beach. It does give me a lot of time to check out the CruiseControl and its competitors AntHill and DamageControl . Cu...

Just finished two projects of a client, let's call this client Yabe for potential legal issue. Yabe is a big client, brought to us by fr...