Archive
2023 Nov
Hi friends. We are relocating back to the US.
2021 Sep
What does 'servant leadership' mean to you?
Slim pickings in Australia.
Engineer Manager Jumpstarter Kit. Management strategy taken from the big four and tailor-made for your scale-up.
AirDesk Seeking Marketing Co Founder
Who
2021 Aug
Fast track new engineering managers with these five beginner workshops.
Writing clean code and building awesome products since 1998!
Only 6 months at Atlassian, what happened?
Software Engineering Manager Meetup set up and tear down checklist.
2020 Nov
A Divided America
2019 Nov
A weekly one on one career journal for each of your direct reports.
Pair programming experiments.
I think I might be a resentful empath.
2019 Sep
Leading With Optimism
2019 Aug
Etsy
Self Promotion
A codebase is like a beautiful city. Places to visit, a legacy, and a language.
2019 Jul
Mindful Engineering
2019 Apr
MemorizeIt. An app that helps you memorize sheet music.
Where are all the hard working skillful engineers with 20+ years experience?
2019 Feb
Core skills for every junior engineer.
2018 Dec
Detachment Technique: The River.
Detachment Technique: The Sunshine Island.
Detachment Technique: The Click.
Detachment is central to my ability to address complex concerns.
Detachment is a doorway into mindfulness.
Detaching from the digital revolution
Writing code affects my ability to detach.
Attachers and Detachers
Learning to Detach is like learning to swim. It's a skill.
Reflections on Detachment.
Prelude in C Major for Piano. A composition about innocence, privacy and grand realisations.
2018 Nov
The thing you should do before you start preparing for an engineering interview.
What is behind your architecture?
What is your learn goal this month?
Sometimes GitHub flips out and complains about a merge conflict when there is no merge conflict.
What does it take to be a lead engineer?
2018 Oct
Notes from a Ruby on Rails Performance Workshop with Nate Berkopec.
2018 Aug
The wholelistic delivery star. Inspiring Ownership and Leadership.
The Steam Train
Going from under communicating to over communicating.
2018 Jul
Effective one on ones with C.A.M.P.S.
2018 Jun
Decommissioning Musomap, the global map of musicians.
Decision Flow. The mechanics of making good decisions in a team of smart people.
2018 May
I turned my disco yoga high intensity interval training shuffle cards into a free app.
2018 Apr
The mechanics of being lean.
What is an agile process drill and how can it drive radical transformation?
2018 Mar
What is the best way to host an effective meeting?
2018 Feb
Allegro. F major. Mozart Piano Sonata No 12. (K 332).
2018 Jan
Pull Request Assistant. A Slack bot that keeps an eye on your GitHub organization.
Clean code with Sandi Metz, Kent Beck and Uncle Bob.
Allegro Assai. F major. Mozart Piano Sonata No 12. (K 332)."
Adagio. B♭ major. Mozart Piano Sonata No 12. (K 332).
2017 Jun
Team Size
2017 May
gitMarkdown. A markdown editor app with seamless github integration.
2017 Apr
Progress Recorder App.
Body mind soul time allocation app idea.
Plus Delta
Keeping your apartment warm with Heat Seek NYC and Pivotal.
NYC Votes goes paperless with Pivotal.
2017 Mar
Dear All Women Is Equal Rights A Power Struggle Or A Choice
How Much Time Should We Allocate To Feedback
Violin duets at Art 100 NYC.
2017 Feb
A TDD workshop at Pivotal.
A dependency injection workshop at Pivotal.
A Pivotal podcast. Getting to know my fellow pivots.
Performing with Chelsea Symphony.
2017 Jan
Shifting Left
2016 Dec
Yvonne
What impact will Amazon Go have on your job?
2016 Nov
My first day at Pivotal NYC.
Trump Rhetoric
Sandman By Chordettes Violin Duet Arranged By Kahne Raja
Violin Etude in G Minor by Kahne Raja.
I just spent the last 3 months in Brooklyn NY working as a Software Engineer on the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign. Here's one thing I've learnt.
Hellocars
2016 Oct
Violin, Piano & Neo-Classical Composition.
My last day at Readify, very sad to be leaving.
The three phases of organisational maturity with Kent Beck at ThoughtWorks NYC.
2016 Aug
If you need me I'll be in Brooklyn writing code for Hillary Clinton.
My top picks from NDC Sydney.
Artwork in aid of Aberdare Ranges Primary School, Kenya.
2016 Jul
Prelude in C Minor.
2016 May
Julian Baggini at the Sydney Writers' Festival on Free Will, Accountability and Feedback
My heart break around music, friendship, work and love is dissecting through the endless act of drawing, composing and writing code.
I reclaim my name.
2016 Apr
What is a 'one on one peer review feedback lunch' and how can it help you build a scalable progressive fabric in any business?
Martin Fowler talking at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney.
2016 Mar
NIDA's art of story telling for business professionals at the Spectrum Now Festival.
2016 Feb
I started a podcast. It's all about getting to know the awesome people I work with at Readify.
2016 Jan
Semver is a powerful example of agreement and wide spread collaboration.
What is a 'feedback seeking culture' and how do we get there?
Yammer Awards. I built a client app to help us create awards for people who use Yammer in weird and wonderful ways.
2015 Dec
Here's why I moved to Jekyll after loving Wordpress for more than 10 years.
At times I can be a dickhead, and that makes building awesome technology really hard.
The future of story telling at the University of Technology Sydney.
Here's a collection of new agile team work methodologies inspired by the way chefs prepare vegetables.
2015 Nov
Here are 3 fresh examples of real world agility I saw today.
Notes on the social concept of feedback.
Cross functionality is the key to frontend developer and UX specialist collaboration.
More reasons why I love Drawing.
Worst Words: A compendium of cant, gibberish and jargon. By Don Watson.
2015 Oct
Switch track conversations. Handling Feedback is hard work!
What will make the Glebe Island White Bay Area Precinct the truly vibrant tech hub that Sydney so richly deserves?
Loose coupling and high encapsulation with Udi Dahan at Microsoft Sydney.
2015 Sep
Am I a helicopter scrum master?
What can these Codecamp kids teach us seasoned professionals about writing better code?
EDX ulab kickoff with Otto Scharmer.
10 things I want to say on Confidence and Identity.
2015 Aug
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Sydney Fundraising Raffle
Experimenting with Scale and Time at Sketchmeet Sydney
One Sydney Charity Auction at CreateOrDie Marrickville
Celebrate #DrawingAugust with @ArtKahne at Parliament on King.
Presenting compelling, energetic and passionate ideas with 13 basic questions.
2015 Jul
The Social Contract. A presentation on forming agreements, bringing change and allowing for failure.
2015 Apr
How long is the optimal PBI?
2015 Feb
Learning the violin took 10,000 hours. Making the transition to viola took 30 seconds.
What does success look like when you've only got 72hrs from start to finish? Team work.
2015 Jan
Business VS Development. 40 love.
An IT sector revolution. The Premier League. Get an agent.
Agile is dead. Let's try Win-Lose development.
2014 Dec
The more I think about my every day work, the more I realise, every project I work on would be more effective if the team operated like a startup.
Managing oneself, the power of now and the five dysfunctions of a team
2014 Nov
I did not realise that Git tracks 5 versions of the same file.
Passion and care is the way to building software that jumps over unexpected hurdles.
Will AngularJS and Polymer merge in the future?
2014 Oct
Would it be possible to build a javascript library that remembers all my CSS pain points?
Here's what I took away from TechE4.
It's so good you might end up falling in love and getting engaged. I did.
Let's be frank, the numbers on women in information technology are shocking.
Here's why recursion is so important when we start to think about functional programming.
2014 Sep
An evening of F# with Jorge Fioranelli
Tiger & Panda Duets
My first day at Australia's best tech consultancy Readify.
The Internet of Things in Sydney
2014 Aug
People are not Resources
12 things you can do to get developers writing more (better) unit tests
Here's a graph that explains how happy you feel about your job
Sydney's .Net mobile developers at Envoy
Backstage at The Concourse with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra
Here's what I learnt from two days of TDD with Wakaleo
Fishburners, the coolest Startup Breakout space in Sydney
ApiExplr 1.0
2014 Jul
DevOps. Treating infrastructure as code.
Thank you Ron Jefferies!
15 things I forget about JavaScript when I write C#
Sydney's continuous delivery crew
Willoughby Theatre Company magic
The journey of acceptance test driven development
Releasing Musomap mobile 2.0.4
Building a web api explorer
My top three quotes from the Scrum Primer
The readify code challenge
TDD with Jasmine and AngularJS
Five layers of mapping in a service oriented architecture
OCTOPUS DEPLOY, TEAM CITY & POWERSHELL
GOOD ARCHITECTS AVOID MAKING DECISIONS
EXPLORING DOMAIN DRIVEN DESIGN
2014 Jun
MY TOP 10 TDD PAYOFFS
SYDNEY ALT.NET USER GROUP. JUNE 24. BIG DATA.
GET USED TO IT
DEAR UNCLE BOB
ENTITY FRAMEWORK 6 INHERITANCE STRATEGY
SCRUM SPRINT PLANNING MAYHEM
MY TOP 10 FAVOURITE RESTful PRINCIPLES
WHAT REST IS AND ISN'T
BUILDING UML DIAGRAMS IN VISUAL STUDIO
2014 May
GETTING STARTED WITH WINDOWS WORKFLOW RULES ENGINE
GETTING STARTED WITH NxBRE
10 things I do that make my code more defensive
.NET BUSINESS RULES ENGINE PLAYERS
IS TDD DEAD?
UNIT AND INTEGRATION TESTING WITH ENTITY FRAMEWORK AND UNITY
FATHER FORGETS BY W. LIVINGSTON LARNED
WHAT CERTIFICATION WOULD YOU RECOMMEND TO A SENIOR .NET DEVELOPER?
MISS SCRUM, IS IT COOL IF I CHECK THIS IN AND GO HOME NOW?
HOW DO YOU CHECK-IN?
WCF SERVICE CUSTOM HEADERS
BACK TO WCF BASICS
SIGNING AND ENCRYPTING A JWT OAUTH TOKEN
LET'S DISPOSE OF THIS WCF SERVICE CORRECTLY
2014 Apr
THIS IS ME EXPLORING MARKDOWN
N-TIER THINKTECTURE SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
45 YEARS ON FROM ALAN WATTS
WEB API 2 AUTHORISATION HERE, HERE & HERE
ACCOUNTS WITH MICROSOFT.ASPNET.IDENTITY.CORE
3RD PARTY AUTHENTICATION WITH MVC5
RUNNING THINKTECTURE AUTHORIZATION SERVER LOCALLY
GETTING STARTED WITH THINKTECTURE OAUTH TOKEN SECURITY
ANGULAR HEALS MY JAVASCRIPT SPAGHETTI RASH.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ENTITY FRAMEWORK?
WHY IS IT THAT WHEN YOU HAVE FUN AT WORK YOU MUST ALSO GREASE YOUR BOSS'S WHEELS?
CAN YOU TRUST A SOFTWARE DEVELOPER?
WHAT IS A SCRUM JOY TASK?
THINKTECTURE
2014 Mar
WHY BOTHER WITH RESTful SERVICES
IS CASH ACTUALLY ENTERTAINING?
THE STRATEGY PATTERN
THE STATE PATTERN
THE CHAIN OF RESPONSIBILITY
HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN A TENDER HEART IN A CRUEL WORLD?
MIKE COHN'S TEST PYRAMID
WHAT IS TOGAF?
2014 Feb
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
2013 Sep
THE AUSTRALIAN LIVE MUSIC PARTY
2013 Aug
IS THIS THE FACE OF AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC?
2013 Jul
AN MP, A RESIDENT AND A LOCAL MUSICIAN WALK INTO A BAR.
ARTS NSW GRANTS. NEW PROJECTS.
LEICHHARDT ESPRESSO CHOIR CELEBRATING LOCAL TALENT
2013 Jun
OPEN PRACTICE ROOMS
THE ECONOMICS OF NSW ART
DENIS KOZHUKHIN WITH THE ADELAIDE SYMPHONY
WILLOUGHBY SYMPHONY LOVE STORIES
I'M A MUSICIAN, WHO SHOULD I VOTE FOR?
SHANE WARNE THE MUSICAL
A SOLUTION FOR TRIPLE Js SHIPIN DICK FOREST PROBLEM
NSW CREATIVE INDUSTRIES – THE UNLIMITED RESOURCE
VIVID SYDNEY TURNS ITS BACK ON LOCAL ARTISTS
WTF IS THE AUSTRALIA OFFICE FOR THE ARTS?
AUSSIE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRAS FUEL ALCOHOL FREE NIGHT TIME ECONOMY
2013 May
CLASSICAL MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
KAHNE RAJA BLOCKED BY FACEBOOK
10 Years Of Neglect Wiped Away By A. R. Irwin Violins
Wesfarmers Token Support For The Arts
5000 Badass Words On The State Of Live Music In Sydney
Google Take A Slice of Apple's Music Pie
Open Mic Comedy Night At The Roxbury Hotel!
The Sale of Annandale Hotel
Everyone Loves What I Do So Why Can't I Get Paid!
Get Involved As Idea Bombing Kicks Off Tonight!
A Secret Birthday
Sydney Food Truck Debate Heats Up
I just decided I'm in favour of an Australian Republic. Can we vote again?
Who Owns The Future Jaron Lanier
Sydney Loves Melbourne and Melbourne Loves Sydney. OK?
Jaron Lanier Opening My Eyes To Live Music Limitations
Dave Grohl And Talent Show Contests
Our Beloved Addison Road Markets
Thomas Talmacs Orchestra In Glebe
James Packer An Assault On The Public Interest
On Set With Leo And The Great Gatsby Orchestra
Nicole Kidman Prancing Around in Short Shorts For Swisse
2013 Apr
The Music Of Place Book Launch With Jon Rose
Saturday at The Sydney Seafood School
Engineer turned Manager
CommBank | Ex-Atlassian | Ex-Stash | Ex-Pivotal Sydney, Australia