Monday, July 28, 2003

Bits, Bytes, Nibbles != Beams, Basements, Nails How to turn off your modern methodology readership in 2 seconds flat: Pull out the Construction metaphor. I found it very hard to keep reading "Alan Cooper's Has A Dream". First was the "Do you want your house built like your shed?" (doghouse, tree-fort, ad nauseum) then onto "Most Architects are just Software Engineers ..." I thought it was the architects who got pompous while the implementors got cynical. Here I just can't tell. But that just may be the point, at some angle... But please read the great XP'er's response, and you also get an admirable answer from Alan Cooper.  That's the focus on values and communication, not on titles and roles, that I enjoy about Agile methodologies. (Now if we could get those guys to remove that creapy saence-esque background! ;-) And, for the record, most days I feel like "just a programmer." 11:21:58 PM    , comment [] Art Paul Schlosser, revisited We learned of Art via Dr. Demento playing "Have a Peanut Butter Sandwich". Today the UW-Madison intern at work whole-heartedly recognized him and directed me to earBuzz, where my Tam and I enjoyed Mr. Schlosser's "I ate the Poppin Fresh Doughboy." Good stuff, but you probably need to be in a mood and have left your expectations in another room. When I played the peanut butter sandwich song for a friend I was asked "Do you hate me?" And if you want the extreme Art, catch him pitchin' Kermit The Frog Aftershave. Tam's review: The man is in desperate need for a Kazoo. Send Art a Kazoo. But ya know, there's something wonderful that there's a man out there living his dream. Dean's review: Art is not nearly as scary as pre-teens with IM. ..and since he plays on State Street in Madison and also on Saturday's public access radio station, I can post this under "Wisconsin Notes", although I think that category is well broken due to initially creating it's title with a smidgen of punctuation. 10:17:22 PM    , comment []

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