<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Chris Johnston</title>
	<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com</link>
	<description>Web development and design with a little VFX thrown in for fun</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:23:17 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.2.1" -->

	<item>
		<title>Car Darts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If only every boy could own this dart set.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2011/10/30/1102/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Code Formatting, Discuss the Spirit and not the Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that always amazes me is the discussions that come up when a group of developers start talking about code formatting. I am taking my team through &#8220;Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship&#8221; by Robert Martin. We just discussed chapters 4 and 5 on Comments and Formatting respectively. For the most part, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2011/07/20/1099/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>How to build a parking lot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The empty lot next to my office has been converted into a parking lot. The interesting thing is how they have gone about doing the construction. The architects and contractors could have brought in the pavers and cement trucks and built a full parking garage immediately. The work would have taken several months to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2011/03/08/1089/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Using Google Docs for distributed retrospectives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently did a retrospective with my team which is located in Toronto and Chicago. I wanted to do a fairly traditional retrospective, but having people write things on stickies on posting them on a wall was not possible. Instead, I decided to use Google Docs and created a simple text document. It had the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2011/02/04/1086/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>What&#8217;s the point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading Dan North&#8217;s post on the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship entitled &#8220;Programming is not a craft&#8221; and Liz Keogh&#8217;s post, &#8220;Why I didn’t sign the Software Craftsmanship manifesto&#8220;, it got me thinking about what is the point? What is it that we should be doing as software developers? Is the point of software development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2011/01/18/1081/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Tip &#8211; use github to &#8220;steal&#8221; code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One trick that I use when I can figure out an API or how to test something (like testing controllers that use AuthLogic) is to look for the particular method––in this case activate_authlogic––on github and look at how other developers use it. One of the problems with tutorials and documentation is that it never shows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2011/01/14/1083/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The importance of a shared vocabulary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One problem I have seen on several projects I have been on, including my current project, is that the developers and the business stakeholders use different vocabularies when describing things. Eric Evans, in his book Domain-Driven Design, stresses the importance of having a shared vocabulary where the devs use the same language as business. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2011/01/12/1074/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>I&#8217;m back, I hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I has been a long time since I last posted on this blog. Life has been complicated for me over the past year, but hopefully, with the new year, I can make a new start posting to my very neglected blog. I am not entirely sure the direction I am going to take with this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2011/01/07/1071/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The importance of User Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I am passionate about is the need for applications to be both usable and aesthetically pleasing for the people using them. If your application does not meet these two requirements then, in my opinion, you have failed. This means that every development team needs UX people. Or as Michael Feathers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/09/14/1062/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>ioXtreme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have got to get me one of these when they come out. Imagine having all of your programs starting up from scratch with the same speed as if you had maximized them. The ioXtreme is 80GB of high-performance, non-volatile storage in the form of a PCI Express card. There are only two problems with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/06/08/1057/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

