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Vancouver received, well, alot of snow for Vancouver. People always say we get alot of rain. Think of that rain in a “snow-like form” and you get a sense of the volume/intensity. So, needless to say it was a gong-show out there. Those coming to work from further afield naturally called to say [...]
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Over the past year we’ve been involved with several projects and initiatives that will have a global impact on aid transparency and effectiveness. They revolve around high level flows of funds from donor to recipient countries, even to the specific projects that are happening. It’s pretty heady stuff. With the holidays we [...]
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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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Recently I’ve been working on our in-house open source project, Tequila. It is a RESTful web service framework, and was lacking some familiar rendering capabilities out of the box. (See http://tequilaframework.org/ for project details). The formats that we thought may be useful were XML, JSON, and RDF, and so I set out to provide these [...]
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Last month I attended a ScrumMaster course given by Ken Schwaber, one of the founders of Scrum. Ken is a reasonably unassuming man with a casual demeanour and the uncanny ability to help people shoot themselves in the foot by dragging them head first into self awareness of their own roadblocks and limitations in their [...]
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