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By Chuck Durfee, casting his eerie glow upon the masses

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Advent of Code 2022

#programming
#ruby

2022-12-13
Chuck
1 min

Life update, Mastodon

#jekyll
#social

2022-11-07
Chuck
1 min

Embers of Wars trilogy

#book
#review
#sci-fi

2021-01-31
Chuck
4 mins

Embers of Wars book review

#book
#review
#sci-fi

2021-01-04
Chuck
2 mins

The end of the Agile Chuck Wagon

#agile-chuck-wagon

2020-12-11
Chuck
1 mins

Using Swiv to Visualize Druid

#business-intelligence
#dashboard
#data
#data-analysis
#dataset
#druid
#granularity
#metrics
#node
#pivot
#swiv
#weather

2018-01-25
Chuck
3 mins

Ingesting CSV Files into Druid, Redux

#actual
#average
#columns
#csv
#data
#data-analysis
#dataset
#druid
#error
#ingestion
#json
#metrics
#node
#precipitation
#weather

2018-01-25
Chuck
8 mins

Mutation Testing in Ruby

#code
#mutant
#mutation
#rspec
#ruby
#testing
#tests

2017-03-20
Chuck
6 mins

Ingesting CSV Files into Druid

#actual
#average
#columns
#csv
#data
#data-analysis
#dataset
#druid
#error
#ingestion
#json
#metrics
#node
#precipitation
#weather

2017-02-10
Chuck
7 mins

Marketing Patriot Day

#advertising
#business
#commerical
#consumer
#horses
#marketing
#mattress
#people
#positioning
#promotion
#television
#tv
#twin

2016-11-11
Chuck
4 mins

Bullet Journaling - Weekly Reviews

#bullet
#chart
#color
#data
#days
#happy
#hyperdex
#journaling
#niko-niko
#radar
#review
#usage
#weekly
#ziglar

2016-09-01
Chuck
3 mins

Introducing Graph Databases

#count
#cypher
#data
#database
#example
#excel
#graph
#jekyll
#movie
#neo4j
#nodes
#relational
#table
#tutorial
#twitter

2016-08-29
Chuck
8 mins

In Praise of Sass

#blog
#color
#functions
#jekyll
#sass
#style
#website

2016-08-16
Chuck
2 mins

Bullet Journaling

#bullet
#journaling
#willpower
#organization

2016-07-25
Chuck
2 mins

Video Post-Processing Using FFmpeg and SoX

#audio
#FFmpeg
#ImageMagick
#post-processing
#silence
#SoX
#video
#WAV

2016-05-17
Chuck
9 mins

Charles Durfee, MBA

#business
#mba
#product
#software
#thanks

2016-05-14
Chuck
2 mins

Conversion to Markdown complete

#markdown

2016-04-30
Chuck
1 min

Tale of Two Keynotes

#presentation
#conference
#comparison
#agile
#management

2016-04-17
Chuck
2 mins

Performance is More Than Speed

#performance
#throughput
#latency
#supersonic
#aircraft

2016-04-15
Chuck
4 mins

Cognitive Communication Coaching for Engineers

#presentation
#walk-away
#dolphin-map
#empathy
#internal-model

2016-04-07
Chuck
5 mins

In-Class Discussions

#asynchronous
#college
#discussion
#facilitation
#participation
#approaches

2016-03-29
Chuck
4 mins

In Praise of Fruity

#code
#benchmarking
#performance
#approaches

2016-03-12
Chuck
3 mins

A Quick Review of Sushi-Go

#game
#cards
#review

2016-02-25
Chuck
2 mins

In Praise of Exercism.io

#code
#code review
#feedback

2016-01-27
Chuck
2 mins

Shades of Meaning

#dictionary
#reference
#meaning
#synonyms
#interviewing

2015-10-19
Chuck
2 mins

Durfweb Post-Mortem

#business
#post-mortem
#retrospective

2015-10-16
Chuck
5 mins

Testing Your Mettle

#interviewing
#exercise
#approaches

2015-10-12
Chuck
7 mins

Bowling Game Kata in Akka

#akka
#kata

2015-09-03
Chuck
12 mins

Conversion to Jekyll

#jekyll

2015-08-12
Chuck
2 mins

Agile Chuck Wagon is gaining subscribers

#agile
#podcast

2015-02-07
Chuck
1 min

Announcing the Agile Chuck Wagon podcast

#podcast
#agile

2015-01-21
Chuck
1 min

Actual Play: Feng Shui 2 RPG with the Fashion Police

#feng shui rpg
#feng-shui
#one-shot
#rpg

2014-10-22
Chuck
4 mins

Agile Methodologies as Sports Movies: Hoosiers and Moneyball

#kanban
#movie
#movies
#scrum

2014-09-14
Chuck
3 mins

From Bash to Ruby: A Kanban experience report

#bash
#docker
#kanban
#rspec
#ruby
#script
#slop
#vagrant
#vcr

2014-09-05
Chuck
2 mins

Process Violations: a Kanban experience report

#experience
#kanban
#pizza
#process
#step
#story
#violations

2014-06-26
Chuck
6 mins

Excel spreadsheet for metrics: a Kanban experience report

#chart
#day
#kanban
#lead
#story
#week

2014-06-19
Chuck
3 mins

Rally data extract scripts: a Kanban experience report

#bash
#data
#experience
#kanban
#script
#story
#agile

2014-06-12
Chuck
7 mins

Establishing the Flow: a Kanban experience report

#development
#experience
#git
#kanban
#Rally
#scrum
#Stash
#state
#team

2014-06-05
Chuck
4 mins

Bowling Game kata and frames

#implementation
#junit
#kata
#test
#unit

2014-04-15
Chuck
3 mins

Lean Wastes and Software Delivery: Overproduction and Overprocessing

#lean
#processing
#production
#waste
#agile
#approaches

2014-02-19
Chuck
9 mins

Lean Wastes and Software Delivery: Wasted Motion

#lean
#motion
#waste

2014-02-12
Chuck
6 mins

Lean Wastes and Software Delivery: Wasted Inventory

#inventory
#lean
#waste

2014-02-05
Chuck
3 mins

Lean Wastes and Software Delivery: Wasted Talent

#lean
#talent
#waste

2014-01-29
Chuck
2 mins

Example #47 of Why Programmers Struggle to Talk to Humans

2014-01-28
Chuck
1 min

Lean Wastes and Software Delivery: Waiting and Defects

#bottlenecks
#defects
#lean
#waiting
#waste
#agile
#approaches

2014-01-22
Chuck
12 mins

First Professional Java

#Java
#languages

2014-01-21
Chuck
1 mins

Bowling Game kata with Express and Node.js

#express
#kata
#node.js
#restify
#supertest

2014-01-15
Chuck
4 mins

Part of a Movement Toward Fluidity

#agile
#elegant
#fluidity
#xp

2014-01-13
Chuck
2 mins

Bowling Game kata using Node.js

#kata
#node.js
#should

2014-01-08
Chuck
4 mins

The Sundered Land, a nano-game

#nano-game
#rpg
#sundered

2013-10-09
Chuck
1 mins

Ebb and Flow in Large-Scale Agile Development

#agile
#development
#large-scale
#platform
#psi
#scaled-agile

2013-09-26
Chuck
5 mins

Doctor Who RPG in Fate, Actual Play report: First Two Sessions

#actual play
#doctor who
#FATE

2013-09-22
Chuck
7 mins

AsciiDoc revelation

#asciidoc
#layout
#rendering
#sublime-text

2013-09-21
Chuck
1 mins

Lessons Running a Coding Dojo - Five Weeks In

#code dojo

2013-09-03
Chuck
2 mins

Get the Gist

#asciidoc
#gist
#github
#markdown

2013-08-17
Chuck
1 min

A case for Approaches in Fate Accelerated Edition

#approaches
#FAE
#FATE

2013-08-10
Chuck
2 mins

Fate Accelerated Edition - Doctor Who

#doctor who
#FAE
#FATE

2013-08-10
Chuck
1 min

Agile Training in a Corporate Environment

#agile
#training
#approaches

2013-07-20
Chuck
6 mins

Mile High Agile 2013 Presentation - picture

#agile
#presentation

2013-05-13
Chuck
1 min

Design Pattern Examples: Object Pool

#design patterns
#object-pool
#approaches

2013-04-23
Chuck
5 mins

Presentation: Mile High Agile 2013

#agile
#design patterns
#presentation
#agiledenver

2013-04-22
Chuck
3 mins

Presentation for Mile High Agile

#agile
#design patterns
#presentation

2013-04-21
Chuck
1 min

What is a Design Pattern, in Lay Terms?

#design patterns
#agile
#presentation
#agiledenver

2013-04-16
Chuck
2 mins

Word Cloud

#words

2013-02-21
Chuck
1 min

The getKanban Game

#game
#Kanban
#training

2013-02-12
Chuck
3 mins

Todo MVC -- an example of how to do it right

#javascript
#review

2013-02-08
Chuck
1 min

Getting a System Under Test with FitNesse

#agile
#csharp
#fitnesse
#testing

2013-02-06
Chuck
4 mins

Parallels: How to Wage War and Agile

#agile
#politics
#approaches

2012-10-23
Chuck
2 mins

LINQ Presentation Uploaded

#linq
#presentation

2012-10-17
Chuck
1 min

Impediment Backlog

#agile
#impediments
#project-management

2012-09-19
Chuck
5 mins

Converting a PowerShell script into a pipeline processor

#pipeline
#powershell
#approaches

2012-09-14
Chuck
4 mins

Steps To Improve Testability

#design
#testing

2012-09-12
Chuck
9 mins

Testability in Data-Driven Applications

#testing

2012-09-05
Chuck
4 mins

Group Coding Exercises: the Code Dojo

#code dojo
#coding
#approaches

2012-08-29
Chuck
5 mins

Code Katas

#code kata
#coding

2012-08-21
Chuck
3 mins

Starting a Technical Book Club

#books
#clean code
#ddd
#feathers
#head first
#martin
#tdd
#welc

2012-08-15
Chuck
5 mins

BetaFish Part 3 - Scaredy Cat

#code exercise
#f-sharp
#F#
#robocode

2012-03-22
Chuck
6 mins

BetaFish Part 2 - Twitchy

#code exercise
#f-sharp
#F#
#robocode

2012-03-19
Chuck
5 mins

BetaFish Part 1 - a Robocode robot in F#

#code exercise
#f-sharp
#F#
#robocode

2012-03-15
Chuck
4 mins

Case Study: Release Planning in Agile

#agile
#epic
#project-management
#scrum
#t-shirt sizing
#theme
#user story

2012-02-18
Chuck
8 mins

Revenge of the Secret Santa Code Kata - F#

#code exercise
#f-sharp
#F#

2012-02-17
Chuck
8 mins

Secret Santa Code Kata Redux in C#

#csharp
#code exercise
#approaches

2012-02-10
Chuck
12 mins

Secret Santa Code Kata in Powershell

#code exercise
#powershell

2012-01-25
Chuck
5 mins

Getting off the Ground

#agile
#big data
#data warehouse
#scrum
#work

2012-01-23
Chuck
3 mins

Parsing large files using PowerShell

#powershell

2012-01-17
Chuck
3 mins

PowerShell to the rescue!

#powershell
#troubleshooting

2011-12-15
Chuck
3 mins

Ubiquitous Capture

#markdown
#software
#workflow

2011-10-27
Chuck
1 min

Punch It!

#project-management

2011-07-02
Chuck
1 min

Ahead, 1/4 Impulse

#project-management
#agile
#fail-fast

2011-06-29
Chuck
3 mins

Potential Nothin' But .NET course, Denver, mid-September 2010

#course

2010-07-01
Chuck
2 mins

Drifting Apart: An Unsuccessful Consulting Engagement

#consulting
#failure
#post-mortem
#approaches

2010-03-18
Chuck
1 mins

Code Documentation with Sandcastle and doxygen

#CHM
#documentation
#doxygen
#help files
#LaTeX
#object mapper
#RTF
#sandcastle
#SHFB
#XML comments

2010-01-11
Chuck
2 mins

Object Mapper: Accepting File Input

#csharp
#file
#object mapper
#parsing engine
#URI

2010-01-08
Chuck
1 mins

Object Mapper: Conversion Engine and Conditional Commands

#Boodhoo
#csharp
#code
#conditional
#conversion
#delegate
#design patterns
#engine
#Factory
#lambda
#Nothin' But .NET
#object mapper
#Predicate

2010-01-07
Chuck
6 mins

Review: dotTrace 3.1

#ANTS Profiler
#dotTrace
#object mapper
#performance
#ReSharper
#review
#tweaking
#unit testing

2010-01-05
Chuck
1 mins

Object Mapper: Challenges of inferring type information

#activator
#csharp
#design patterns
#dynamic
#Factory
#FieldInfo
#infer
#ironruby
#MethodInfo
#object mapper
#PropertyInfo
#Reflection
#type

2010-01-05
Chuck
4 mins

Object Mapper: Bridging the Gap

#Adapter
#array
#csharp
#design patterns
#ElementInfo
#Factory
#field
#FieldInfo
#IAccessor
#object mapper
#property
#PropertyInfo
#refactoring
#Reflection

2009-12-31
Chuck
8 mins

Object Mapper: XML Parsing

#array
#csharp
#Command
#composite
#converter
#decorator
#design patterns
#element
#injector
#object
#object mapper
#parser
#parsing
#schema
#setter
#transformation
#XML
#XmlReader
#XSD

2009-12-30
Chuck
1 mins

Object Mapper: Generation Gap

#children
#ElementInfo
#generation
#grandparent
#indexed
#inheritance
#nested
#object mapper
#parent
#person
#polymorphism
#properties

2009-12-29
Chuck
3 mins

The Object Mapper Domain Model

#association
#conversion
#correspondence
#domain model
#function
#object mapper
#programming
#properties
#XML

2009-12-28
Chuck
3 mins

Introducing the Object Mapper

#csharp
#conversion
#Java
#object
#object mapper
#programming
#request
#response
#web service
#XML

2009-12-23
Chuck
1 mins

The Grass May Be Greener, Less Filling

#architecture
#csharp
#composite
#consulting
#conversion
#corporate
#decorator
#design patterns
#mapper
#MbUnit
#middleware
#object mapper
#programming
#Reflection
#scrum
#Subversion
#Tortoise
#VSS
#agile

2009-12-18
Chuck
3 mins

IronRuby script engine in C#

#csharp
#code
#engine
#extensions
#ironruby
#module
#programming
#script
#approaches

2009-06-29
Chuck
5 mins

Nothin' But .NET Denver

#Boodhoo
#Dot-Net
#programming
#training

2009-06-15
Chuck
1 mins

StarTeam's File Compare / Merge tool

#compare
#merge
#review
#software
#starteam

2009-03-31
Chuck
1 min

StarTeam install woes

#cross-client
#jvm
#memory
#starteam
#startup

2009-02-24
Chuck
1 min

Pulling names from a hat with LINQ

#code exercise
#development
#linq
#names from a hat
#programming
#random
#rng
#rubyquiz
#secret santas
#software
#takerandom
#word
#approaches

2009-02-12
Chuck
4 mins

Whole Basketball Team

#agile
#basketball
#development
#disciplines
#qa
#roles
#scrum
#switching
#whole team

2009-02-06
Chuck
1 mins

Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

#andy hunt
#book
#books
#cognitive science
#computing
#dreyfus model
#freemind
#pragmatic thinking and learning
#programming
#refactoring your wetware
#review
#wetware

2009-01-28
Chuck
2 mins

What a difference a day makes

#co-location
#ddd
#sacrifice
#scrum
#work

2009-01-23
Chuck
4 mins

Solitaire Cipher

#cipher
#lunch and learn
#solitaire

2009-01-09
Chuck
1 mins

Review: Kung Fu Samurai on Giant Robot Island

#B-movie
#cards
#games
#giant robot
#island
#kung fu
#review
#samurai

2008-12-30
Chuck
1 mins

Review: New World (Carcassonne)

#carcassonne
#games
#new world
#pawns
#review
#rio grande games
#tiles

2008-12-26
Chuck
1 mins

Review: Wii Sports

#games
#review
#wii
#wii sports

2008-12-26
Chuck
1 mins

Review: Yahtzee Free-For-All

#dice
#games
#review
#yahtzee

2008-12-21
Chuck
1 mins

Review: It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

#gaslight
#review
#play
#theater

2008-12-08
Chuck
1 mins

Zendo and the Art of Software Development

#development
#games
#looney labs
#programming
#software
#treehouse
#zendo

2008-11-07
Chuck
2 mins

Review: 1000 Blank White Cards

#cards
#drawing
#games

2008-11-07
Chuck
2 mins

Review: Blithe Spirit

#gaslight
#review
#theater

2008-10-10
Chuck
1 mins

Work and the Mañana Disease

#management
#risk
#refactoring

2008-09-10
Chuck
2 mins

Teaching LINQ

#linq
#programming

2008-09-06
Chuck
1 mins

Introductions Are In Order

#scrum
#agile

2008-08-28
Chuck
1 min

Review: Peter Pan

#gaslight
#review
#theater

2008-08-25
Chuck
1 min

Backyard Washers

#backyard washers
#games
#review

2008-07-07
Chuck
1 mins

Long overdue reviews

#denver women's chorus
#dwc
#gaslight
#girls rock
#god's favorite
#jeckyll and hyde
#performance now
#play
#review
#theater

2008-07-02
Chuck
1 mins

A pair of thumbs up for Launchy, FreeMind

#recommendation
#launchy
#freemind

2008-06-26
Chuck
1 mins

Code Kata 4: My Solution

#code exercise
#dry
#munging
#programming
#approaches

2008-02-11
Chuck
6 mins

Code Kata 3: My Solution

#code exercise
#estimation
#programming

2008-02-04
Chuck
1 mins

Code Kata 2: My Solution

#approaches
#algorithm
#code exercise
#picard iteration
#programming

2008-01-31
Chuck
7 mins

Code Kata 1: My Solution

#approaches
#code exercise
#composite
#decorator
#null object
#pricing
#supermarket

2008-01-26
Chuck
3 mins

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle, and for your information, a review of Elixir

#cards
#elixir
#games
#mayfair

2008-01-24
Chuck
2 mins

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