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		<title>User-Centered Design</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/user-centered-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended a panel discussion on User-Centred design, hosted by CASS Business school, in conjunction with Electronic Ink and Wired magazine. My interest comes from working on agile software development projects that spend too many iterations re-working parts of the user interface following feedback from the showcase. This re-work is often described as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile in the West Midlands</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/agile-in-the-west-midlands/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/agile-in-the-west-midlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean manufacuring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muda]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently ran our Agile Workshop &#8220;0 to Agile in 100 Days&#8221; at the Birmingham Science Park Aston, with the simple aim of gauging the level of agile adoption in the West Midlands. Judging by the turn out, and the positive feedback from the participants there&#8217;s definitely agile life out there, and many thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance Test Driven Development Part II</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/acceptance-test-driven-development-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/acceptance-test-driven-development-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 12:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Eccleston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last time we looked at how we do acceptance testing at Black Pepper using a domain specific language (DSL) to make the tests more approachable to the business representatives of the project.  In this article I&#8217;m going to look at writing tests using a DSL.
The purpose of a DSL is to allow tests to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance Test Driven Development</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/acceptance-test-driven-development/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/acceptance-test-driven-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Eccleston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acceptance testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At Black Pepper we use test driven development (TDD)  as a matter of course. We enjoy it and see the benefits all the time.  For several years now we&#8217;ve taken this a step further and practised acceptance test driven development (ATDD), and I thought I&#8217;d share the ideas.
The concepts of ATDD are very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to adopt Agile in 100 Days</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/how-to-adopt-agile-in-100-days/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/how-to-adopt-agile-in-100-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agile adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile west midlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile workshop]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening to your peers in the IT community, there are some common issues in providing IT services to corporate clients.

You have multiple development efforts and many project managers
Progress on projects is RAG driven and weekly / monthly in arrears
You have a long term strategic roadmap, but this is not coupled to the actual work being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flex acceptance testing presentation at Flash Midlands user group</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/flex-acceptance-testing-presentation-at-flash-midlands-user-group/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/flex-acceptance-testing-presentation-at-flash-midlands-user-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kieran Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hudson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selenium RC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I was asked by my friend and ex-colleague Steve Carpenter to present at the Flash Midlands user group. I couldn&#8217;t resist the opportunity to spread the word about acceptance testing for Flex/Flash that we&#8217;ve written about here before (Flex acceptance testing demo, Running Selenium Flex tests in a Hudson job and Flex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Converting UK OS Grid References to Latitude and Longitude</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/converting-uk-os-grid-references-to-latitude-and-longitude/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/converting-uk-os-grid-references-to-latitude-and-longitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cooke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grid reference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[latitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[longitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NaPTAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ordnance survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSGB36]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WGS-84]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As covered in my last post I&#8217;ve been looking at location based services for mobile devices. In that post I discussed how to find a set of nearest points of interest based on the latitude and longitude reported by an Android phone.
I also mentioned, for my example, I was looking at UK rail stations. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Nearest Points of Interest</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/finding-nearest-points-of-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/finding-nearest-points-of-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cooke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been looking at location based services for mobile devices. In particular I wanted to implement a service that my Android based application could call, providing &#8216;my location&#8217;, and find the location of nearest points of interest. In my example, I&#8217;ve used UK train stations.
The brute force approach would certainly work – looping through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QCon 2010 Listmania</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/qcon-2010-listmania/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/qcon-2010-listmania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Dain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QCon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to QCon in London again this year, and it was another great conference for software developers from the QCon people, InfoQ and TriFork.
5 things I learnt

How to test HTML layout automatically
Put your ops person in your dev team (and talk to her)
You don&#8217;t have to use PowerPoint when presenting
Put a toy duck on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jabber chat rooms persistence problems</title>
		<link>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/jabber-chat-rooms-persistence-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/jabber-chat-rooms-persistence-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jabber]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When our chat server machine was re-booted the other day some of the persistent chat rooms didn&#8217;t recover correctly. Most clients got a &#8220;404&#8243; error but the owner was able to connect but always got a message saying the room was locked:

This room is locked from entry until configuration is confirmed.


The machine is running Ubuntu [...]]]></description>
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