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Tony for a Little While Longer
Full disclosure first; my personal leaning according to The Political Compass economically lands slightly Left of centre, and socially very Libertarian. This is by way of explaining that although I...
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Culture
Great corporate culture is easy to spot; just count the happy employees. I’m sure there are studies into the benefits of a positive culture, but I doubt you need studies to be convinced anyway....
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Checking confluence with pythons
Heaven and hell. Being a new starter at my new job, eager to absorb as much information as I can in as short a time span as possible, my attention immediately gravitated towards the Confluence Wiki...
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Time-frames and Velocity
Next Monday I have a meeting with my team lead at 2:30pm. It’ll be the 3-month review mark in my new job, which still feels insane to me. I blame the velocity of the release cycle at Campaign Monitor....
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Cannibals and Pirate Lords
I feel guilty for doing nothing. On my weekends, I spend a lot of my time in books and television. I let it wash over me, but I feel like I should be doing something more constructive with the time. I...
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(Unit-)Testing State of Mind
My mind has been steeped deep in the quagmire of automated testing for the past few days. If ever there were an area of software development where I wished for a silver bullet that I could just load...
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Three Whys
“Why?” is the most powerful question in existence. I hadn’t thought much about it till a year or two ago when I experienced a CTO that wielded it like the probing tool it is. “Why” doesn’t judge. It...
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Testin’, What is it Good For?
Not quite absolutely nothin’, but I am starting to wonder. More tests means more coverage means more green that changes to red at the slightest change. 100% test coverage means 0% freedom to change a...
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ADSD with SOA and Udi – Day 1
I am learning this week. Advanced Distributed Systems Design with Udi Dahan. So far, I have acquired many new questions that I didn’t think I had need of, and I am hopeful that in another 4 days they...
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ADSD with SOA and Udi – Day 2
So,… Apparently I am back in school now; after a long day (8:30am – 6:30pm) I have a homework assignment for tomorrow. I had hoped to get some extra sleep tonight, but no luck. Using...
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ADSD with SOAAOA and Udi – Day 3
Dear diary, today is day 12 of my 5-Day Training Course. I would complain about the energy drain if not for the appreciation that Udi is investing so much of his time. Every day starts at 8:30, and...
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ADSD with AOA and Udi – Day 4
It has been four days since I slept. I am hallucinating Authorities (aka Services), Bounded Contexts, or is that Business Components? Up is down, down is up. Everything is abstract. Everything is...
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How About a Digital Gaming Revolution, Mr. Turnbull?
PAX is a conference for gamers of all kinds, and geek culture more broadly. But you wouldn’t have guessed it from the length of the room-overflowing queue leading into the session “Boss Level: Meet the...
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YOW Conference – #yow15
I had not been to YOW before myself. In my previous job I had sent my team there though; the timing works out perfectly for a business that tends to be quiet over Christmas and the new year. I had been...
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Thomas Covenant – Unbeliever
I finished. Last week, after reading through my many Melbourne journeys for work and many weekends over coffee, I finally closed the tenth volume of the Thomas Covenant series. And to be frank; I am...
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