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Selfish Programming: April 2008
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Hate something, change something, make something better -. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. À la recherche du temps perdu*. I don't get to go to Paris as often as I'd like, so it's a real treat to be off to Paris this weekend to present. Real Options: l'ultime frontière. On 5 - 6 May. J'espère que vous allez nous rejoindre. À très bientôt. In Search of Lost Time. Or Remembrance of Things Past. Posted by Portia Tung at 8:41 pm. Monday, April 28, 2008. Once More, With Feeling. Real Options Space game. You exerci...
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Selfish Programming: November 2007
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Hate something, change something, make something better -. Thursday, November 29, 2007. Andon du Jour - London Underground. Imagine: It's 7.30 am. Another funfilled weekday is only a tube ride away. On your descent down into the station what do you see? To show my appreciation, I decide to blog about them, so I take some pictures. Someone resembling a station manager approaches me, uncertain of my next move. What are you doing, miss? I was just taking some pictures," I reply. I don't know, miss. I ca...
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Selfish Programming: January 2008
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Hate something, change something, make something better -. Monday, January 28, 2008. The Story of the Gigantic Spider In the Room. It's not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.'. I went to see the Bourgeois exhibition. The Power of 3. It was around that time that I read about a particular social experiment. A group of researchers had enlisted two types of people to test: those who considered themselves optimists and others who considered themselves pessimists.
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Selfish Programming: October 2007
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Hate something, change something, make something better -. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. The Emperor's New Clothes. What do Tom Peters and Steven Levitt have in common? They make a living out of having and using a rare and precious thing that has made them kings. Their magic is no secret: it’s common sense. Tom began by assuring the audience that we were all leaders weren’t we? Tom described the essence of enterprise as:. Cause worthy of commitment. Space for encouragement and initiative. To find out more...
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Agile Coaches Gathering « Leftshift’s Weblog
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Techniques to improve your code. I attended the Agile Coaches Gathering. Last weekend at Bletchley Park. All in all, it was a great day andI learned a lot. Bletchley Park was home to thousands of people intent on breaking military codes during the Second World War. It is in danger of falling into disrepair. This wasn’t helped with the announcement. You can make a difference and donate here. Captured the thoughts of the group here. The second session I ran was titled “Why do we coach? My name is Peter Cam...
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2009 June 26 « Leftshift’s Weblog
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Techniques to improve your code. I run a weekly meeting primarily aimed at engaging the development community in a number of ways such as organising dojo’s, presentations, study groups and the like. This changed recently to alternating sessions focusing on the needs of developers and testers. With the success of the meetings other groups such as Analysts and PM’s were expressing an interest in discussing topics pertinent to them. Whilst attending the Agile Coaches Gathering. Twitter tag – #acguk. My name...
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2009 June 12 « Leftshift’s Weblog
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Techniques to improve your code. Why do we coach? At the Agile Coaches Gathering. I proposed a session exploring the reasons why we coach. Managing to gather a few people on the sunny lawn at Bletchley Park to explore this topic, we created a mind map looking at the positive and negative reasons for coaching. The outcome can be summarised by the following three categories:. Fulfilling peoples potential – Giving is better than receiving; people are amazing; everyone can excel. Social responsibility –...
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Continuous Open Space « Leftshift’s Weblog
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Techniques to improve your code. I run a weekly meeting primarily aimed at engaging the development community in a number of ways such as organising dojo’s, presentations, study groups and the like. This changed recently to alternating sessions focusing on the needs of developers and testers. With the success of the meetings other groups such as Analysts and PM’s were expressing an interest in discussing topics pertinent to them. Whilst attending the Agile Coaches Gathering. Twitter tag – #acguk. You are...
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2010 January 28 « Leftshift’s Weblog
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Techniques to improve your code. Installing gems without ri and rdoc. There is scarce doc out there on how configure ruby gems on windows. Create a .gemrc file [if it doesn’t exist already] here. C: Documents and Settings user home .gemrc. Add the following line:. Gem: –no-ri –no-rdoc. And viola – new gem installs will be that bit quicker. Update: The above only works for older versions of Windows. For Win 7 / Server 2008 create the .gemrc here c: users user .gemrc. Plain Text Story Runner.
