William C. Wake's Blog

January 2005 Archives

Retrospectives class

Later this month, Diana Larsen is leading a class on retrospectives that may be of some interest: "Project Retrospectives and Reviews: A Facilitator's Toolkit," January 24-25, 2005, at Oregon Graduate Institute; http://www.cpd.ogi.edu/coursespecific.asp?pam=1573

She's also announcing another class in April: "The Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills," presented by Diana Larsen, Esther Derby, and Ken Schwaber. April 5-7, 2004. See www.futureworksconsulting.com .

Origins '05

I went last year and had a great time. (Not sure if I'll make this year or not.) The place is huge (several large gaming rooms that seemed 100 yards long), with just about every type of game you can think of. (There's not a whole lot of electronic stuff; more board/card games, wargames, role-playing, etc.)

If you're used to software conferences, you'll find it a bargain. I've never seen a conference with so many simultaneous sessions (>100 at some hours).

Highly recommended:)

Purple Crayon Navigation

"Harold and the Purple Crayon" is a children's book where Harold uses his crayon to draw whatever he needs, and then it's real enough to use.

Sometimes you want to navigate to a class. One way is to go find it in the list of classes or out on disk. If you have a one-keystroke "jump to definition", one way is to just type the class name into the file you're in, and navigate on that. Yes, it may leave an extra word where you were, but it can be a quick way to bounce over to a class you want a peek at.

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