Misc
Welcome to The Year 2002
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
OK, it’s been a while since I last posted here. It’s been a long while. I’d like to report that I’ve been busy doing something amazing but that would be stretching the truth just a wee bit too much. Instead, I’m here to report that I’ve made a discovery that most probably made around 2002 or so.
Today, I finally broke down and tried video conferencing to do some meetings. There were two of us in the Joplin, MO office and up to five people in our King of Prussia office. We were doing a team formation meeting and a backlog selection/planning meeting. It’s amazing how much of a difference the video makes over just using the phone. And this was using web cams, Skype, and normal phones, none of that fancy stuff Cisco and others are peddling these days.
At the rate I’m going, I fully expect to be up to the year 2008 in about 6 or 7 years from now, which means I’ll be actively networking with Facebook, watching HDTV, navigating with GPS devices, browsing the web on my mobile, and driving a hybrid.
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An Ancient Thanksgiving Recipe
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Although many of my co-workers did not believe I made the delicious dish known as squash stuffing, I will still post the recipe here as requested. I know what some of you are already thinking, “he’s like some sort of Renaissance Scrum Master.” Who am I to argue? I coach agile software development teams, write some code on occasion, invent new ways of doing software development, create new lines of clothing, and now cook fine dishes such as squash stuffing. The best part is that it’s all in a day’s work.
Without further ado, here’s the recipe for squash stuffing. Enjoy!
- 1-1 1/2 lbs. sliced & steamed yellow & green squash
- 1/2 cup finely diced onion
- 1 grated carrot
- 1/4 cup margarine
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 can cream of chicken soup
- 2 1/2 cups Pepperidge Farm or Brownberry stuffing mix (not cube type)
Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.
Saute onions and grated carrot in margarine. Put the sauted onions and grated carrots in a bowl and add sour cream, cream of chicken soup, squash and then mix together. Next add 2 cups of stuffing mix and mix together. Put in baking dish (the Hoover family has a special dish made of granite, quartz, and rare jewels in the shape of a hobbit’s head – good luck finding one.) Top with 1/2 cup of remaining stuffing mix.
Bake for 35-40 minutes just until hot and delicious.
P.S. One of the developers at work commented the other day that my recently injured ankle is likely a result of how large my head has become; i.e. supporting all that weight can’t be good for my ankles. I’m guessing this post will only add to support that opinion. Such is the life of the Renaissance Scrum Master.
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Making The Holidays Extra Special This Year
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Since my game changing book won’t likely be ready in time for the holidays, I figured I should provide the readers of this blog with a great gift to give to their friends and family this Christmas. The picture in this post is just one of many styles of shirts you can purchase with the i must be an acrobat header on it. 
As an added bonus, the back has the url to this blog on it. At first, I thought it would be tasteful to put the url on the back in fairly small type. But then, I considered those wearing the shirt and how they’d probably prefer to have the url as big as can be in order to best share their passion for this blog, me, and the clown figurine that walks across that tightrope.
I can’t vouch for the shirt personally. Although, I did purchase one for my biggest fan, who is always going out of his way to tell people that I have a blog. Some might say he’s mocking me when he does this, but I know that deep down inside he is my biggest fan and supporter. He knows it. I know it. (I’ll pretend I didn’t hear rumors of him contemplating going around downtown Philly and having various odd ball characters off the street pose in the shirt as he captures their photo.) Unfortunately, my biggest fan does not have his own blog, so I can’t point you to his gushing reviews of the shirt he received this week in the mail.
So, instead of surprising your kids with that Nintendo Wii they’ve been asking for all year long, how about you give them the gift that keeps on giving? What better way to say “you mean the world to me” then to send an i must be an acrobat shirt to all your friends? And don’t forget your co-workers. Nothing expresses your gratitude quite like a shirt that has joshuahoover.com on the back in a 200 point sized font. Go on, make this holiday season extra special.
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Mercy! (i.e. WordPress Upgrade)
Monday, October 15, 2007
Tonight I decided to upgrade this blog to the latest and greatest version of WordPress. I originally went down the path of following the upgrade instructions when I realized that it was kind of crazy to do so when there is the option of using Subversion. The problem with the traditional upgrade is that it requires you to manually copy a lot of files over from the old install like any of your plugins, themes, uploads, etc. By using the Subversion option I can now update to the latest stable version of WordPress by running a single svn command. I like that a lot better.
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Communicate
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
After the past two days, I felt the need to post this:
- To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office.
- To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown.
American Heritage Dictionary definition of communicate
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