Parveen Kaler

Founder | Smartful Studios Inc.

Month: September, 2007

Seattle, Washington

I woke up Wednesday, whenever I woke up. I packed my bags and jumped on the bike. I am trying to travel super-minimal. I have one tail bag full of clothes and one backpack full of credentials, toiletries, and electronics. I only packed one pair of jeans, two t-shirts, a fleece sweater, and three pairs [...]

Pink

By way of Seth Godin’s Blog. According to the CBC, some grade 9 student in Nova Scotia got picked on by his classmates for wearing a pink polo shirt. I wear pink all of the time. And screw this punk kid if he thinks he can bite my style. Even though I live in one [...]

Leaving on a Motorcycle

Today, I am in beautiful Vancouver, BC. SOCOM: Tactical Strike for the PSP is wrapping up, so I am heading out on vacation. I don’t have a firm release date, but Tactical Strike should be in stores in time for Christmas. So, go out and pick it up, because you love me and stuff. I [...]

RSS Feed & Facebook Badge

I just cleaned up the RSS feed for this blog. To be notified when this blog is updated you can click on the FeedBurner icon in the Sidebar. Don’t know what RSS is? Here is quick and cool tutorial by Common Craft. cjQkDe9cv5A I’ve also added a Facebook Badge. Note that I use Facebook as [...]

FogBugz World Tour: Followup

Joel Spolsky just posted his writeup from Seattle. Joel talked about the three different phases of software development in Vancouver as well. He calls these three phases Design, Develoment, and Design. Joel is very adamant that his three phases are NOT the Waterfall Method. Frankly, the Waterfall Method is a strawman argument. It has been [...]

FogBugz World Tour: Vancouver

Scott and myself went to the FogBugz 6.0 World Tour this morning. The purpose of the tour was to introduce FogBugz 6.0 to the world and to discuss the software development process with FogBugz FogBugz was a bug tracking tool when it was originally released. With version 6.0, it has expanded to include a wiki [...]

Site Update

I just updated WordPress to version 2.2. The major reason for the upgrade was so that I could embed YouTube videos. Please let me know if you find anything odd. I will re-add my Facebook Badge and XBox Gamercard to the sidebar eventually.

Talking a bite out of crime

Back in high school, my group of friends used to hang out at a tennis court. We used to roll up in our mom’s minivans and just hang out. If mom’s minivan wasn’t available that day you had to roll out on your mountain bike. We never actually played tennis. We mostly just sat around [...]