Floehopper

thoughts on the bergy bits of life

March 5
Creating a custom HTML theme | Tumblr

I’m quite impressed how customizable it is.
January 23
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Started reading 9780670887033 by Somebody.
January 22
“ 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
January 19
“ 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
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“ 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
January 18
Harvard Business Review motivates TDD

Out of instrumental support, progress, interpersonal support, collaboration, and important work: progress was the top motivator by a large margin.
January 14
Terralien - What Makes a Good Estimate?

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.
January 4
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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…
January 3
The Boss's Journey: The Path to Simplicity and Competence

As psychologist William Schutz explained, “Understanding evolves through three phases: simplistic, complex, and profoundly simple.”