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.
• Engineer turned Manager
• 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