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Aaron and I got back last week from the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference, aka Semtech2009, and after four solid days of twittering and forgetting people’s names and awkward conversation, I figured I should comment on what was cool and what was forgettable before everything shifts from the first category to the second. The basic conference elements [...]
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Last night marked the return of the GroovyVan meetups for this year. We had a small but enthusiastic turn out to hear Jerome Pimmel provide an enlightening talk on Behaviour Driven Development (in particular easyb) and myself give a lightning talk on the testing features built into the new Grails 1.1 release. Discussions spilled over [...]
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On January 27, our office became the slippery slopes of Cypress Mountain, (one of the jewels in Vancouver’s spectacular mountainous crowning backdrop), as we set out on one of our regular team events. After 3 weeks of little-to-no snowfall and subsequent deteriorating conditions, the white fluffy stuff began to fall in the wee hours of [...]
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This year we made a point of making time to reflect on things, not just at the end of the year, but all the way through it.  At the End of a project, the End of a quarter, sometimes even the end of a conversation.  We adopted a new routine of hosting Clearinghouse meetings to [...]
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Well, this is officially my first blog ever! It feels a bit weird putting my thoughts out there for all to see. Anyhow, gotta get with the wave of the future, or present, or whatever… So, having just started working at 2Paths in July, I was pretty excited when I heard we were going to have [...]
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