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Re: http://nxsy.org/redirecting-from-confluence-to-mediawiki-part-4

nxsy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:16:40 -0000

Looks like my old URL wasn't redirecting correctly. It is working now, although the URLs aren't quite right...

Re: Scott Ambler's Agility at Scale presentation in Cape Town

nxsy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:08:29 -0000

Hey Shayan,

Strangely enough, I was wondering what you were up to during the presentation, probably because I was reminded of the two companies we've worked together by the presentation.

Getting started with testing is the hardest part. It's painful on an existing project and painful when you're doing it for the first time, so you've really got to make the time to get it done early on, or the pile of features people will inevitably pile onto your plate will mean you'll never get it done.

I guess it's something like revision control, continuous integration, and a bug tracker — you need to make it a requirement before developing code that the project has a test suite. I've convinced people of not moving forward until revision control and bug tracking are in place easily enough, so hopefully making that sort of stand on testing would be similarly easy with the right arguments.

Neil

Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there?

nxsy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:50:48 -0000

Thanks for all the comments, guys, and especially to Graham. I think I'm nearing a decision-making-time.

Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there?

nxsy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:49:47 -0000

I'm tempted to sign up with FNB's Share Investor given that I am already a FNB client.

Tax seems to be a nightmare with share investing — what does FNB do to help make sure I have the right information for when tax time comes around?

Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there?

nxsy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:47:16 -0000

Definitely won't be day trading — just want to manage a portion of my portfolio myself.

Too bad about the Standard Bank Online Share trading — having only a handful of blue-chip companies is probably going to remove it from the running in this case.

Re: http://nxsy.org/amazon-s3-storage-manager-for-knowledgetree

nxsy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:17:10 -0000

You should probably contact the KnowledgeTree team — I seem to recall they were working on an S3 storage manager a while back.

Re: In San Francisco in October

nxsy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:24:09 -0000

I haven't looked at Yelp, but Meetup looked pretty dismal for the period we're there.

Also, it would be great to have you along to the Python user group. Pitching up at a new user group can be a bit daunting without backup. ;)

Re: In San Francisco in October

nxsy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:21:13 -0000

Those two sites both look promising so far - thanks for the pointers!