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Swizec Teller05/09/13
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Write Sitting Down, Edit Standing Up

This weekend I discovered a trick. I was at a friend’s place and as I was editing in the kitchen I realized that the chairs are terrible and the table is the wrong height.

Raymond Camden05/09/13
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How I'd Sell Unit Testing

Someone came up to me after my MAX session on web development debugging and asked for some advice on how to 'sell' unit testing to his clients.

Mikko Ohtamaa05/09/13
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Exporting and Sharing Sublime Text Configuration

Sublime Text is a very powerful and popular text editor. But it’s more than a text editor… it’s an ecosystem of programmer’s tools where you can go to armory and choose the winning set for every code you’ll face.

Ian Mitchell05/09/13
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Product Backlogs in Practice

The seeds of backlog decay are often sown in the very willingness of an agile team to be adaptable. Urgent tasks are dealt with as they arise, and backlog items are pushed back to make way. Can anything be done to stop a Product Backlog from becoming the "Land of Forgotten Dreams"?

Zac Gery05/09/13
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Web Design: The Forgotten Advantage

Within the development community there seems to be a subtle disrespect towards the web design profession. Programmers view designers as disconnected Photoshop artists; furthermore, they consider designing to be a much easier job than programming. This viewpoint is unfortunate.

Gil Zilberfeld05/09/13
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7 Steps for Writing Your First Test

A simple list of bullet points to check for when you are writing tests. Always try to improve your naming, mocking, refactoring, and picking scenarios.

Eric Gregory05/09/13
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A Week in the Life: DevOps vs IT Ops

This five minute talk from DevOps Days Austin 2013 compares a week in the life of a DevOps team to that of a traditional IT Ops team, drawing on ZeroTurnaround's DevOps and IT Ops Productivity Report for this year.

Tim Spann05/09/13
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SOAP, WS-Security, Apache CXF, and Axis2 Linksheet

This linksheet has a nice big list of quick start guides, FAQs, and best practices for several of the major Java enterprise integration frameworks and utilities.

Johanna Rothman05/09/13
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Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 5

One of my readers asked a question about the Urgent queue and the relative ranking of my ever-growing left hand column. How did I determine what to do, and what was the rank of each?

Kay Cichini05/09/13
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Creating a QGIS-Style (qml-file) with an R-Script

How to get from a txt-file with short names and labels to a QGIS-Style (qml-file)? I used the below R-script to create a style for this legend table where I copy-pasted the parts I needed to a txt-file, like for the WRB-FULL (WRB-FULL: Full soil code of the STU from the World Reference Base for Soil Resources).

Vijay Narayanan05/09/13
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Have a Reuse Strategy for Business Process Integrations

When implementing process automation initiatives, it is important to have a reuse strategy – why? Because, the process flows are a rich minefield for reusing services and common interfaces across a variety of use cases.

Michael Sahota05/09/13
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Organizational Transformation Checklist

In this post I am sharing workshop results on how to understand the readiness of the leadership to undertake organizational transformation such as the intentional upgrade of the cultural operating system. It is partly a checklist and partly a diagnostic tool to understand current perceptions.