Monthly Archives: January 2006

The Podcast Bug

Move over music, with your crazy rhythms and sassy lyrics. I’ve been bit by the Podcast bug.

Ok, a little backstory. I got an iPod Nano for Christmas and it has probably been my most-used present thus far. And I’ve been using iTunes as a medium to interact with, and load songs to, my iPod. I had never used iTunes before, so it was a little bit of effort to warm up to it. But now, I’m getting the hang of using it as a way to load up my iPod with music.

Anyway, I met up with an old friend last weekend, who brought me up to speed on Podcasts. Since then, I’ve been scouring the internet for ’em. I really like TWiT – which talks about the latest buzz words in the tech industry. I also have a handful of others loaded in my iPod, waiting for a listen. But nothing I want to promote yet in case they just plain suck.

Technical Reading… for fun…

I got two technical books this Christmas dealing with Agile development: Craig Larman’s Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide and Scott Ambler’s Agile Database Techniques. Although I haven’t sat down to read them cover-to-cover, I think that the subject material they cover is quite useful, especially if you are looking at getting into Agile software development, or would like to just know what it is.

One thing I noticed is that some of Ambler’s chapter content is much the same as his articles posted freely on his web site. So, if you’re hesitant to buy Ambler’s book, look through some of his vast collection of writings and see what he has to say for yourself.