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New toys, New projects
Wednesday, September 18, 2002

I took a break from The Secrets of Consulting to read Kent Beck and Martin Fowler's Planning Extreme Programming. It's a smallish book that I need to read quickly as two new projects loom on the horizon. Both involve taking outdated software and rebuilding it as a J2EE web application. In both I will be the project lead, working closely with the customer (hence the need to get a better handle on the Planning Game). One of them is for my full-time job, one of them is for Red Squirrel (KMAR).

My PowerBook arrived. I can't say enough about it. It's beautiful. The screen resolution is better than anything I've ever seen. I watched some scenes from The Matrix: incredible. I connected to my DSL by simply plugging in the ethernet cable and filling in a few fields for the PPPoE connection. This is something my Windows box required a CD from Ameritech to do and a dialog box anytime I want to connect. I installed both Ruby and Perl in about 5 minutes and was feeling at home with Unix, but a home that was easier and friendlier than I've ever experienced. I'll never go back to Windows.

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