Brain Spool

Part of doing agile development means being accountable and transparent. Recently Integrum has started to step up it’s path towards excellence. The team felt that testing was not being all that it…

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Take Away: Deliberate practice is hard work,…

There was a call for conference planning for a Regional Ruby Conference on the Ruby AZ meeting list recently. It was at the request of fellow local Ruby company DevFu that I decided to attend. I…

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Take Away: Jordan proves that talent had…

The largest Chinese manufacturer of solar panels, Suntech Power, has announced that it is opening a manufacturing plant here in Metro Phoenix. This is fabulous news. I think. It is hard to…

It is clear to me that we are not in Kansas anymore. I expected today to be full of amazing as more days than not seem to be that way of late around Gangplank. The morning got going by kicking off…

House Bill 2011 was signed on September 4th and went into effect November 24th. What exactly is bill 2011?

• Districts can no longer have policies that use seniority or tenure for retention or…

One of the best things about living in metro Phoenix is that we can be in the center of a seemingly never ending city, but still be surrounded by the beauty of the desert at every turn. There is a…

There is a lot of talk about U of A building a new cancer center in downtown Phoenix. There is no denying that this would help fulfill long ago given promises made by the Phoenix Biomedical…

I read the Phoenix Business Journal every week as part of keeping up with business here in Metro Phoenix. I was floored when I read “Finding the money to make it“. What was incredible to me were…