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Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 15th of August 2010 at 08:09:48 PM
I have been thinking a bit about how you structure the start up of today. This also includes older companies looking to bring the best of the startup mentality onboard for rebirth. Maybe we can call this re-starting-up? There are a couple problems that I think are valid in my current position that have [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 22nd of July 2010 at 02:45:08 PM
I get asked a lot about why I have a background in Zoology (particularly, marine and even more particularly, neuroscience) but now work in IT. It is a little hard to describe quickly, especially since this question is often asked by an HR representative over the phone as part of an interview.
To answer [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 11th of July 2010 at 04:51:44 PM
The purpose of this post is to give a very short template of what each project should do to work in the Agile framework and with Rally (our project mgmt tool). Now that a lot of you have had some exposure to Rally and Agile this seems like a logical next step.
To start: a couple background items to help this make sense. There is the famous Agile question: “Wen you are making breakfast, who has more invested? The pig or the chicken?”
I will pause for you to think about this.
» Continue reading Some Notes on Agile

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Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 12th of March 2010 at 02:21:11 PM
A little trinket of my travels augmented by a couple friendly additions can be found on the inside cover my my work portfolio – by Il Bisonte of course, now mass market crap here (and by that I mean Gucci, Prada, Fendi, LV, etc…). Also in there are my tickets to Petra and the [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 5th of February 2010 at 07:57:15 AM
CTS is organized well. In addition to the teams technical abilities, they meet me each day, assigned me a driver to make sure I got to where I needed to go, brought me food, and generally took good care of me.
The only downside, and this applies to everywhere I have been so far, [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 27th of January 2010 at 11:05:08 PM
In about 36 hours I will leave for Bangalore, India. This will be my first trip to India and my first trip to Asia that isn’t the Middle East. I am very excited to be traveling to meet the folks that I work with each day at CTS, see some of Southern India, and [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Saturday, 12th of September 2009 at 10:08:56 AM
I have been thinking a lot about leanness & productivity both on the staffing side and on the technology side. How do you get that super cool content driven website up quickly with all the features you want and not have it cost a fortune? One of the first things I think about is how organizational issues have direct consequences in the technical realm.
» Continue reading 5 Lessons on The Hard Work of Web Dev

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Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 14th of August 2009 at 11:39:57 AM
In the last 6 months I have spent time figuring out how to get java applications running in the cloud – EC2, private, or otherwise. While there seems to be a great deal of progress in making this easier for me as the developer/deployer there still seems to be a problem with the way [...]

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Ellie wrote this entry on Tuesday, 14th of April 2009 at 03:05:28 PM
Hi Dad, Have not heard from you in a while, so I thought I would write. Things good in Maine. G-Mom gave me my first direct complement this morning and patted me on the head. She told me that I was better behaved that Cart or Slobbie and that she never had to yell [...]

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Ellie wrote this entry on Wednesday, 1st of April 2009 at 03:03:57 PM
Hi Dad, Sorry for not writing sooner but it has been a busy week, family issues and life. Anyway G-Mom says you got my photos after my SPA day Saturday. Wow, personal maintenance was never so much fun. I think G-Mom scared them so they gave me lots of extra attention. The old scam [...]