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April 2011

1 post

Durham House For Sale → durham-house-for-sale.co.uk
Apr 28, 2011

October 2010

3 posts

BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Horizon, 2010-2011, Is Seeing Believing? → bbc.co.uk

Due to feature some of Hannah’s illusion models.

Oct 16, 2010
Twitter / Uncle Bob Martin: Agile is meaningless... → twitter.com

Agile is meaningless. Scrum is watered down gruel. Kanban and Lean are variants. And XP is alive and well.

Oct 12, 2010
“Staff Liquidity is a staff allocation approach that meant we always had the most experienced staff available to work on a high priority item at the drop of a hat. This was achieved by allocation based on “who could do the job with help” rather than “who could do the job”.” —

XPDay Experience Report proposal by Chris Matts Olav Maassen

Oct 12, 2010

May 2010

7 posts

John Lewis Partnership → en.wikipedia.org

In 1999, in response to a fall in profits, there were calls from some Partners for the business to be demutualised and floated on the stock market. If this had gone through, each Partner would have…

May 17, 2010
8 Websites You Need to Stop Building → theoatmeal.com

“I don’t get it. How do you *do* social media?”

“Well it’s all about the ROI, of course! I engage with the community to monetize my social presence.”

“Oh I see, so you’re a talentless D-bag!…

May 16, 2010
The Hartwell Paper - A new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009 → eprints.lse.ac.uk

The “Kyoto” approach was constructed by quick borrowing from past practice, with other treaty regimes dealing with ozone, sulphur emissions and nuclear bombs. It was not unreasonable that…

May 13, 2010
Semantic Versioning → semver.org

A simple example will demonstrate how Semantic Versioning can make dependency hell a thing of the past. Consider a library called “Firetruck.” It requires a Semantically Versioned package named…

May 13, 2010
Hartwell Paper - Executive Summary → lse.ac.uk

[…] the organising principle of our effort should be the raising up of human dignity via three overarching objectives: ensuring energy access for all; ensuring that we develop in a manner that does…

May 13, 2010
Still hatin’ on git: now with added Actual Reasons! → reprog.wordpress.com

The bottom line for me with git is that I am sick of being pushed around. It swans about as though it owns the place. It make arbitrary demands. It tells me what to do. It’s as though ext2fs insisted…

May 13, 2010
“I could not but hint that in my opinion the problem of reaching the Pole can best be solved by relying on the ponies and man haulage. With this sentiment the whole company appeared to be in sympathy. Everyone seems to distrust the dogs when it comes to glacier and summit.” —Scott’s Antarctic Diary - http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/diaries/scottslastexpedition/2010/05/09/9-5-1911/
May 9, 2010

March 2010

1 post

Creating a custom HTML theme | Tumblr → tumblr.com

I’m quite impressed how customizable it is.

Mar 5, 2010

January 2010

13 posts

9780670887033 → bkkeepr.com

Finished 9780670887033 by Somebody.

Jan 23, 2010
9780670887033 → bkkeepr.com

Started reading 9780670887033 by Somebody.

Jan 23, 2010
“planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow” —Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals - Unlearn Your MBA
Jan 22, 2010
“After a few iterations, our fear level was actually lower than how we used to feel after a staged release. Because we were committing less code per release, we could correlate issues to a release with certainty.” —Lessons Learned: Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events
Jan 19, 2010
“Continuous deployment makes releases non-events and checking in code is synonymous with triggering a release. On the one hand, this is the ultimate in customer responsiveness. On the other hand, it is scary as hell.” —Lessons Learned: Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events
Jan 19, 2010
Harvard Business Review motivates TDD → spin.atomicobject.com

Out of instrumental support, progress, interpersonal support, collaboration, and important work: progress was the top motivator by a large margin.

Jan 18, 2010
Terralien - What Makes a Good Estimate? → terralien.com

Good estimates happen to savvy founders, since they set a reasonable time box and then actively engage with the team building the product to simplify and fit the result into the estimate.

Jan 14, 2010
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world by Nassim Nicholas Taleb → fooledbyrandomness.com

1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small.
2. No socialisation of losses and privatisation of gains.
3. People who were driving a school bus blindfolded (and crashed it) should…

Jan 4, 2010
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