January 2009
23 posts
“Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 30th, Ma.gnolia experienced...”
– Time to backup those del.icio.us bookmarks? From Ma.gnolia.
“If I get a virus, I can ‘git revert’ it.”
– From Tracking an entire Windows sytem inside Git.
“Have you noticed how often a new programmer joining your team grumbles about the...”
– From Complaining about Other People’s Code by Nat Pryce.
“If you’re looking to introduce Scrum, make sure you pay good attention to...”
– Flaccid Scrum by Martin Fowler. Echoes of The Decline and Fall of Agile by James Shore.
“So why do we invest this way? We believe the web is fundamentally transformative...”
– Arguing From First Principles by Brad Burnham via @KentBeck
“Government isn’t very good at computers. They spend millions to produce...”
– Rewired State - National Hack The Government Day
Jan 26, 2009: Super Mondays at Beehive →
The lineup of the next event is:
James Rutherford — “Flash - Saviour of the Universe” James is the principle at Creative Nucleus, a Newcastle based design agency.
Paul Calaghan — “A taste of…
When Retrospectives Go Wrong: Too Many Goals →
One hour seems to be the maximum that teams are willing to set aside, and when you’re dealing with team issues, technical issues, process issues and more, all that time literally flies by. The…
Jun 25, 2009: Reboot 11 at Kedel Hallen →
reboot is a community event for the practical visionaries who are at the intersection of digital technology and change all around us.
2 days a year. 500 people. A journey into the…
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the... →
Finished Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt.
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: The... →
Started reading Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: The Authorised Edition (Film Tie in) by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.
Implementation Patterns (Addison-Wesley Signature) →
Started reading Implementation Patterns (Addison-Wesley Signature) by Kent Beck.
Interface Oriented Design: With Patterns... →
Started reading Interface Oriented Design: With Patterns (Pragmatic Programmers) by Ken Pugh.
How To Fail With Agile →
Twenty Tips to Help You Avoid Success
GUIDELINE 14: Start customizing an agile process before you’ve done it by the book.
GUIDELINE 15: Drop and customize important agile practices before fully understanding them.
“In order to explain that the constant is defined immediately when creating a new...”
– Comment by Charles Nutter on Fun with Threads by Michael Koziarski.
“There’s two kinds of people in the world, those that do work and those who...”
– From Are Your Lights On? by Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg.
“Some managers encourage heroic behaviour when they focus too strongly on can-do...”
– From Rapid Development by Steve McConnell via Dan Creswell.
“When Unix pipes were invented, suddenly it was trivially easy to do something...”
– From Git is the next Unix.
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can...”
– By Albert Einstein from Falsifiability on Wikipedia.