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Alex

Alex

Hong Kong born British Chinese expat living in NY, gadgets loving, agile software developer working around the US

  • Member since Jun 21, 2006
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  • Jersey City, NJ
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I have been developing software since 1997 in various diverse fields, ranging from traffic control, financial enterprise system integration, online banking, to bespoke application. I am very experienced in Agile development process and currently works as an application developer/senior consultant at ThoughtWorks and a Certified Scrum Master, practising what I preach. I am the co-founder of the NY Alt.NET user group and participate in the Alt.NET community. I also develop Linear (a desktop blogging client)

I was born in Hong Kong and had since lived in various cities in the UK as well as the US. I currently live in Jersey City, otherwise known as West Manhattan.

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Andrew
Andrew said:
Need to be able to push through a VPN gateway to get to the server in many corporate environments (properly... read more
on Build there, check status everywhere
Tressor
Tressor said:
I think that Parkinson's Law is pretty applicable in certain cases, like in large corporate businesses and the like. There... read more
on The Parkinson's Limit and agile team size
hatfinch
hatfinch said:
The problem with UIScrollView is that it seems to have been designed in two separate halves: the scrolling mechanism being... read more
on UIScrollView and Multi-Touch zooming
Alex
Alex said:
Interesting. I haven't been targetting 2.2.x so I didn't notice the difference in behavior. I don't have any issue with... read more
on UIScrollView and Multi-Touch zooming