Well, it's almost 3am and I can't sleep - very annoying! Anyway, thought I'd briefly post about what I've been up to of late, well here goes...

1. Work wise - mentioned previously we were using the SCRUM process at work now - so I'm just smoothing out the details of how we implement this, re-read the books I got on it, Agile Project Management with SCRUM (US) and Agile Software Development with SCRUM (US), these are both pretty short and give you a real feel for what SCRUM does for you as well as how to use it - one major issue I've not yet totally solved though is how to scale the process down (scaling UP is covered, just not scaling down) to the typically 1-2 men teams we work with at my company - there is a PDF covering a smaller approach though.

2. Framework - I've also been busy at work developing a more advanced version of our community framework application - this has been a really interesting excercise as it's allowing me to flex my architectural muscles for a change, currently working on some Provider Pattern(part 2) stuff to allow interop with CMS2002 as well as enabling us to easily extend the framework by 'plugging in' new chunks of functionality (think lots of Abstract Classes and Interfaces :-))

3. Home Projects - well, I have some articles which I HAVE TO FINISH - I currently have 4 half completed articles hanging around, which so far cover stuff I haven't seen anyone else touch upon (yet!). As usual these are driven by things I've encountered at work (we have a couple of ASP developers transitioning over to .NET - it's really fascinating to see the things they find tricky - which reminds me, mus put together a list of articles for beginners to ASP.NET!)

4. Community stuff - this is an idea I've been toying with - I really have to get more involved with my local developer group; I've been more of an Aspergery lone-coder type in the past. So...might try to go along to some sort of talk at some point...maybe...

5. Gym...hmm...kind of went through a phase of going to the Gym every night (3 months which seems pretty average) - was losing a stone (14lbs) each month...I really have to go back (if for no other reason that I sleep better!). Currently at the end of a reading phase (averaging 3 fiction, 1 non-fiction books a week right now) sso we'll see what comes next in this wild ride I call life.

6. Women...well...self explanatory...life of a lonely coder...

Anyway, going to have some Cocoa (with Splenda - the choice of the choosy diabetic :-))..and might try to get some sleep (or not...and just load upo with caffeine and annoy the hell out of my workmates tomorrow.)