Evoking the 70′s bumper sticker "A dog is for life, not just for Christmas ", I suggested in my last post that
Agreement is not just for the kick-off meeting
Let's extend that thought to the first group of Kanban's values . What if we positioned understanding , agreement and respect not as initial conditions for a learning environment but as leadership disciplines expected of everyone who has responsibility immediately around it?
- Opscode Blog: What Devops Means to Me
- Lee Munroe: The Lean Entrepreneur
- Tea-Driven Development: Speaking at Lean Agile Scotland 2012
- Kalzumeus Software: Inaugural Kalzumeus Podcast: Japan, Startups, A/B Testing, And More
- Lessons Learned: London Calling
- paperplanes: February Reading List
…well from the late 70′s a campaign run in the UK based on this slogan:
A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
The Kanban version of this quote might be this:
Agreement is not just for the kick-off meeting
Agreement is a process, and it's key to effective and lasting change. It will be needed with every increment, so practice it, value it! I spend a lot of time coaching around this one.
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Devops Down Under 2011 videos online
- Mike Perham: Don't Mistake Meetings for Process
- Tea-Driven Development: BDD Training
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #796
- Giles Bowkett: KanbanPad
- Softies on Rails - Home: Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban, Oh My
If you remember the most recent outage on Christmas Eve, they even had the guts to come out and say that production data was deleted by accident.
Can you imagine the shame these developers must feel? But can you imagine a culture where the issue itself is considered an opportunity to learn instead of blaming or firing you? If only to learn that accessing production data needs stricter policies.
It's a culture I'd love to see fostered in every company.
Regarding ops education, …
- Meta | ateM: Getting github emails on organizational projects
- High Scalability: Designing for Resiliency will be so 2013
- New Relic: Community News: Multi-Device Adaptation vs. Optimization
…December, after all the travel we decided to stay put in Portland and enjoy being home for Christmas and New Years.
Lessons
I successfully got a consulting business off the ground last year. I've done this before in '05-'07 with Electro Interactive, so getting started again was fairly familiar. Once up and running, it was pretty much on autopilot, just finding clients and working diligently. I initially loaded up on client projects, but quickly decided that more than 3-4 …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Why, Hello Portland!
- New Relic: Four Reasons Why New Relic & Portland Rock
- Mark Turner: Goodbye Bend
- Eddorre.com: Observations in Traffic Patterns After an I5 Bridge Lift
- High Scalability: Sponsored Post: Animoto, deviantART, Hadapt, Clustrix, Percona, Mathworks, AppDynamics, ScaleOut, Cloudkick, Membase, CloudSigma
- Brainspl.at: 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it's been.
…traditionally post the year's numbers and my reflections on what worked and what didn't right before Christmas: see years 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , and 2011 . (This year's installment was slightly delayed. Merry belated Christmas?)
Obligatory disclaimers: It is a good thing that I'm CEO and not the bookkeeper, because if I were bookkeeper I'd be fired for incompetence. When I do the official accounts …
- gnuu.org: Exposing the Right Details: A Tale of Two Audiences
- Ruby, Javascript, Erlang blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee: DataMapper does have migrations
- CaelumObject Developers' Blog: When inheritance and mixins become a design issue
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #777
- Rails on the Run - Home: Rails and Merb core team working together
- Junior developer: Advanced ActiveRecord screencast
Ian's search was performed on Christmas Day, from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST, which he describes as "plenty of time for lots of people to open their presents". Here's his count of tweets at the end of the 24-hour sampling period: Tablet Number of "First time on this tablet " tweets Apple iPad 1,795 Amazon Kindle 250 Google Nexus 100 Microsoft Surface 36
Indirect Metric #3: Store Wars
The scene in the video above — recorded at Lone Tree, Colorado…
- Lessons Learned: A full day of Lean Startup Workshops on December 4, 2012
- RubyLearning Blog: Performance Testing Rails Applications — How To?
…dark when you wake up in the morning, and it's dark when you head home from work in the evening. Christmas cheer may distract and keep you chipper through December, but come mid-January, we're all hunkering down and preserving our energy for the long haul. It's always about that time when I ask myself (and others around me): ‘when the pioneers and settlers, heck .. when the first nations first arrived here, and managed to scrape by, through the cold and the dark that first winter, …
- Rails Rumble: Free Stuff!
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #632
We've been working furiously on writing articles on design concepts that everyone should know, but with our own unique spin. We like to call these pieces ZURBwords. With the year coming to an end, we thought we'd do a wrap up of our most recent words so that you can have an excuse to avoid the after Christmas shopping hordes at the mall.
Wireframes
Earlier this year, we declared that are dead, long live wireframes . In that post, which sparked some healthy debate inside …
The Koch snowflake is a famous fractal.
So is the Cantor set .
Less famous, maybe, is Cantor dust , a version of the Cantor set made with squares instead of lines, which apparently earned it a much cooler name.
But as far as I know, we have no Cantor snowflake.
Since it's Christmas, and since, in the odd quiet moments between holiday noise, Daniel Shiffman's Nature of Code has been keeping me company, I wondered if we could make a Cantor snowflake.
From everyone at ZURB, we want to wish you Happy Holidays and an even happier New Year. On this Christmas Eve, we're taking a look back at the year in responsive design.
This year, we've further dug our heels into responsive design, committing ourselves to becoming the best at it with Foundation , our front-end framework. We weren't the only ones. Other than being the year of the apocalypse-that-never-happened, 2012 was also a big year for responsive design. Here's some of the best the year had to offer.
- ZURB: Wireframes, Responsive Web Design and Many Other ZURBwords
- ZURB: What's to Come in 2013 for Responsive Design
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #966
- Dalibor Nasevic: Do It Yourself
- Global Nerdy: Mobile Developer News Roundup: Appcelerator/IDC Survey of Mobile Devs, 5 Reasons Why Responsive Design Isn't Worth It, and Andro
- A Piece of Our Mind: The MetaSpring Blog Carnival: Issue 4 - Usability