December 2009
35 posts
RT @RonJeffries @mheusser um you are aware that the entire agile movement is about choice over process, yes?
argumentum ad populum sells RT @headius I think I’ve found my new favorite far-right nutjob “news” site: http://is.gd/5HrOw
Polish English German Swahili #code2009 ha!
Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto is fantastic, playful. It sounded like gibberish to me just few years ago. #gettingold
Ok so rcov=true rocks in SpecTask. Let’s hear it for automated code coverage people.
can’t get used to dark themes for code. herald is my fav vim theme but I’d love to find a light theme like that. github256 is ok for now
our 3 kids are now looking at @ctdr Dachshunds. If we get a dog the hamster and guinea pig will have to go I guess. #newatthis
90kts: "Big Kev'd" about the direction of... →
Ruby and JavaScript #code2009
Reading Candide by Voltaire. Seems it’s becoming my annual read.
http://is.gd/5G6m7 good short write up on paring as social construct
Coaching Pillar: Inviting http://bit.ly/4BOvBD (I would say: it’s the SPACE stupid) Thanks to @geepawhill
http://is.gd/5EHqN great overview of vim workflow with cuting lines and blocks
RT @jamesbritt I have cleverly integrated Freemind mindmaps with Pivotal Tracker. It is insanely useful.
jamesbritt: I have cleverly integrated Freemind... →
ashalynd: Nice article in Economist: via... →
Seen Avatar. Loved it. Awesome opinionated movie.
http://m.cnn.com/cnn/ne/us/detail/420512/frg depressing news Salvation Army major killed in front of kids on Xmas eve
Testing face recognition fail. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8429634.stm
Santa brought Lego toys to all our 3 kids. Santa is now tired and wants cake and eggnog or something like it
Snowing in Dallas http://post.ly/G7vM
http://is.gd/5AbOo switched to jeweler and pushed watirloo to gemcutter
reviving watirloo is fun. rspec is fun again.
skim: RT @lisacrispin: RT @jitterted: Nice! RT... →
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/15/cnet.web.accessibility/index.html cnn on web accessability
RT @michaelbolton: Atul Gawande, in his book /Better/, describes process improvement that assumes *the people* are the experts. http:// …
RT @francescomugnai: Firefox 3.5 passes IE7 as most popular web browser http://bit.ly/6tzQcY
RT @francescomugnai: Common Laptop/Netbook Positions to Avoid http://bit.ly/62EYqA
RT @pilotbob: There seems to a bug in #Win7 which shares your User folder to EVERYONE if you share a sub-folder. So much for “most secur …
RT @temojin Here’s a must RT: one page index of _why’s work: http://viewsourcecode.org/why
http://imprompt.us/2009/code-fast/ fail fast and fearlessly with exploratory fast coding?
RT @newsycombinator: Lessons from teaching CS 1: Code fast http://bit.ly/7aI0FM
http://www.tweetatcongress.com/ api for getting twitter accounts of your congress members by @noah_cooper
http://beta.fromthepage.com/ transcribe manuscripts project. Read scanned pages and write entries (by @benwbrum)
“when you can write code rapidly and grow a big solution up from a small one,...”
– Code fast | Impromptus