(c) Tracy O
On June 2nd I went up to Nottingham for NottTuesday. The topic was “Get Funded!” and there were 3 speakers: Mark Chandler (Relationship Manager at Lloyds TSB) discussing bank finance, Chris Scarth (co-founder and commercial director of Prime Principle) sharing his experiences of angel investment, and Robert Cawdron (Fund Manager at E-Synergy) talking about venture capital.
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On 20th May 2010, the South West branch of the BCS hosted by Jon Tilt and Richard Coppen from IBM who gave a lecture called “Agile software testing’ – A practical view of testing in a large scale agile development environment”. Jon and Richard work as Chief Test Architect and Test Architect respectively and shared their experiences of testing and agile testing in large projects.
On 10th May, Doug Richard (@DougRichard), of Dragon’s Den fame, brought his School For Startups (@s4s) to the University of Leicester (@UniofLeics ) to deliver a 6 hour workshop called “Start Here! Starting and Growing a Successful Business”. I was in the audience and here are my impressions of the event.
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This is an assignment I wrote for my third year strategy module with the University of Leicester‘s School of Management. In the module, as well as studying theories and looking at criticism of business strategy, we played a multiplayer game of Civilisation IV as an alternative to the usual case studies. This was because the module leaders felt that a case study, which gives the answers to the questions it poses within the text and always has an answer, did not reflect the realities of strategy in practice. Civilisation IV on the other hand is a dynamic and changing strategy simulation, which they felt could be used as an alternative teaching tool so that students could experience first hand elements of strategy in action.
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On Tuesday 10th November I went up to Nottingham for NottTuesday. The theme was What does the Cloud mean for your business? and it was all sponsored by Aware Monitoring.
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OK, so I was using an alarm to remind me to do something, but when the alarm went off there was not sound, it only vibrated.
I went through all the settings but couldn’t get it to sound.
I spent a lot of Saturday messing around trying to update my Android SDK and kept getting the error SSL Peer Shut Down Incorrectly just as the download seemed to be about to complete
I was using the eclipse AVD and SDK manager to upgrade, and since it wasn’t working I went looking for an alternative.
My final year project is a ticket booking system for a mobile device, and I’ve chosen to target Android and develop an application for my HTC Hero.
I followed the set up instructions in my copy of Android Application Development (which are pretty much the same as the instructions on the Android Dev site), but when I tried to run a simple Hello World type app on my handset I had problems.
I would plug my phone in, as per the instructions, but it wouldn’t be detected. Eclipse is supposed to recognise my phone as valid build target and be able to install and run the app on my phone via USB, but it didn’t.
The Problem
I was recently doing some housekeeping on my websever: removing archived software downloads that I no longer needed and looking for any problems when I found one that initially had me stumped. Looking at the size of my home directory, I found it was around 600mb with no immediately obvious reason as to why.
I have hardly any files in my home directory, so I quickly located the problem to ~/Mailbox/.Sent/cur, which is, as the path suggests, related to my email server. It looked like copies of my sent mail was being stored and not deleted.
eXtreme Programming and the Capability Maturity Model
(C) Lisamarie Babik
An essay I wrote for my software measurement and quality assurance module discussing how eXtreme programming can be implemented in a business and in such a way that it can satisfy the capability maturity model.
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