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A good working environment is essential to ensure productivity in any project, even more so in an agile environment where the pace can often be quite steady, without reaching burnout. A couple of tips…
1. A spacious desk. You can’t have too much clutter or you will get distracted.
2. A gym ball instead of a chair. [...]
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It’s subtle, and easily overlooked.
Server side calls in the domain layer are setting all sorts of properties on an object before pushing it over to the database for persistence. The database receives the object, persists and returns. The domain then requests an updated snapshot from the database (which may or may not include the data [...]
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So part of the whole Ubuntu move has also involved migrating my predominantly MS-based programming skillset into something *else*. As it is, i am studying part-time to complete a B.Sc Applied Mathematics, so this year will be a little slower at times on the technology front, but it proceeds, nonetheless.
So far, i’ve managed to learn [...]
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I just couldn’t resist Had to log into Windows today and on startup was presented with this dialog:
What do you do?
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Floating-point arithmetic on a computer is hazardous, at best. This post is not a detail description of the problem. Varied descriptions of the problem already abound, like this one, for example. There’s also documented pain out there to understand that it’s not just your computer No, this post is just one way of [...]
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Not gonna lie- it wasn’t altogether _that_ intuitive to begin with. Appenders, logging levels, loggers and a whole bunch of different configuration going on: it wasn’t just working. But, i thought to myself: many others are happy with it so it must be worth the initial pain. Of course, in a world of instant gratification [...]
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Worse Than Failure are hosting a little contest, which perchance happened to stumble upon. it is just for fun [eegads! don't let anyone know you're actually having fun programming] so my entry is up… who knows, maybe it’s a good enough attempt at winning that high quality JPEG!
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the “O” word popped up today and i can recall reacting rather negatively to the concept. having recognised my emotional response :), i’m trying to gather my thoughts so i can examine the role of overtime in a production environment with reasonable judgement. and in scanning through many articles, my reaction is more accurately against [...]
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it’s not just software requirements that suffer the problem of being vague, open-ended and non-descript. anytime we want to express anything we require, we speak a kind of short-hand which is just something we’re terribly used to, and rely on, in everyday communication.
Starting with birth, we express our requirements in one word “Mommy” meaning anything [...]
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one of the biggest challenges facing any lead position [particularly in an agile domain, but not solely within that domain] is wrestling for control. the processes, frameworks, tools and values are established in order that some kind of control may be exerted over the chaos. and in a position where you are required to lead, you are [...]