I’ve neglected my personal website/blog for years. One of my goals for this year was to get it into shape and start using it for good. I just deployed the biggest improvement ever to my website. Check it out and let me know what you think via the comments!

On April 30, 2010 I did a couple of presentations at AgileDotNet 2010 in Dallas. Here are the slides and supporting code samples from those presentations.

Our marketing team here at Improving uses Scrum on a daily basis. The team recently wrote an article about their progress. It’s an interesting read and reminds me to look around for ways to improve by noticing ideas and practices that help solve problems in other areas and disciplines.

I’m now completely addicted to evernote.  I’ve installed it several times but, until recently, never really used it.  I always thought “what am i supposed to use this for?”. I guess I just didn’t get it. Well… now I do. I watched Merlin Mann’s desktop tour, and it convinced me to give it another shot.  I’ve had DevonThink, Yojimbo, OneNote,  and Evernote all installed, but never really used any of them.
I now dump almost everything into Evernote. I used to use Stickies, random disorganized text files, notes in the margins …

So I got so frustrated with the formatting of the last couple posts I wrote with Blogger (and never published), that I decided to move my blog to WordPress.  The inertia of that, of couse, made me go months without writing a post.  Well, I’m back and on WordPress.  Hopefully the move inspires me to publish more posts!
I chose WordPress because of the flexibility, extensibility, and availability of plugins, extensions, themes, etc.  Basically, I chose WordPress because that’s where all the cool kids are!