In Good to Great, Jim Collins uses the word bravado . Why focus on a word that describes the decision rather than its effect? I would say that this kind of bravado describes change that is not calibrated to the level of understanding that exists in the organisation. I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't have a big, hairy, audacious goal (a BHAG ), but that we should drive towards those goals through experiments that are (1) safe-to-fail - ie don't inflict unsustainable …
- Giles Bowkett: KanbanPad
- Softies on Rails - Home: Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban, Oh My
- Pragmatic Bookshelf: Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban now in print; 30th PragPub
- On the Path: The Path to an Agile Maturity Assessment
- Comments on: blog: Daily Review #37
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Devops Down Under 2011 videos online
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Numbers are Great, But...
Most of us are not numbers people. So what is a good number of participants to have? Theories range from participates as low as five to what seems to be an infinite number of results. While numbers will provide extra meaning to your feedback, don't get too hung up on math or statistics. Instead let the numbers help tell you a story.
Doing a quick sale on my ebooks, from now til Friday night. The widely-praised Rails As She Is Spoke is only $ 23 (usually $ 37), and its lower-profile followup Unfuck A Monorail For Great Justice , normally $ 41, is only $ 23 as well.
SpriteMachine - Online tool to create CSS sprites.
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! - Beginner's guide and tutorial.
Cocoa JSON Editor - $ 3.99 tool that ended up saving me a batch of time.
Ten Things Developers should know about the Mozilla Developer Network ( MDN) - How about just "it's a great site for web API docs"?
Sublime Text snippets for Ruby on Rails 3 - An attempt to update the default set.
Andres Glusman, Meetup, Failure is Great and Other Myths About Adopting Lean Startup
Evan Henshaw-Plath, Neo, How Engineers Embrace Lean Startup
Sam McAfee, Change.org, How Engineers Embrace Lean Startup
Melissa Sedano, BloomBoard, How Engineers Embrace Lean Startup
Jocelyn Wyatt, IDEO.org, We Went to West Africa and Learned Our Key Assumptions Were Wrong
Adam Goldstein, Hipmunk.com, Moving Fast While Caring About Design at Hipmunk…
- » Product Launch Blog: Lean Startup Machine: Smarter Entrepreneurs in 55 Hours
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Announcing the Lightning Talk Speakers
- Signal vs. Noise: What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?
- Tea-Driven Development: Agile North 2010
- Obie Fernandez: Since I finally got my LaunchRock Invite...
- Positive Incline: Lean reading marathon
…versions.
Refactoring from Good to Great by Ben Orenstein
One of my favorite talks of the conf, Ben gave several examples of smelly code and then proceeded to live code his way through various refactorings. Highly recommended.
Tomorrow I'll recap the remaining six talks, including Jim Weirich's keynote which involved stabby procs and succeeded in completely blowing my synapses. Stay tuned.
- New Relic: Recap of RubyConf 2012
- Andrzej on Software: How we ended up organizing a Ruby conference
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Rails Rumble Dates, Active Admin 0.5, Protected Methods in Ruby 2.0
- Segment7: Verifying benchmarks with ministat
- Heroku: Multiple Ruby Version Support on Heroku
- Headius: Avoiding Hash Lookups in a Ruby Implementation
§ Programming Python on the iPhone .
§ Interactive Data Visualization for the Web , a new book about D3.js.
§ Great for commuters, Umano reads news stories in a human voice .
§ A collection of advanced must have Git aliases . Also, showing git branches sorted by latest commit , which I absolutely needed the other day because I didn't pick a memorable (read: good) branch name.
* Great for ‘Ready Mostly' situations
* Stores structured or unstructured data
What's Hypertable Good For?
The key design consideration of Hypertable is to handle Big Data. If you have a lot of data that you need to process, than Hypertable is a good choice for you. Given that, and the variety and the flexibility of the installation options it provides, it's more than likely there's an option for you.
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- High Scalability: Hypertable Routs HBase in Performance Test -- HBase Overwhelmed by Garbage Collection
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: NoSql Databases - Part 1 - Landscape
- pingles: MapReduce with Hadoop and Ruby
- Stake Ventures Inc.: The sorry state of payment standards
- The "Tech. Arch.": Implementing Ruby Camping REST Services With RESTstop
- Heroku: Clojure on Heroku
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* Unexpected Detours: Navigating Variable Topology in the Cloud
* The Downside of Democracy: Mo' Administrators, Mo' Problems
* Application Overhead: Data Doesn't Ride for Free
* Difference Matter: Why the Web is Almost a Great Equalizer
- Rubynaut: Scaling a Rails app (Part 3 of 3)
- Alex R. Young : Massive Attack
- Ruby Inside: Why Rubyists Should Care About Messaging (A High Level Intro)
You Suck at Email - Great slide presentation on how to properly send and manage email. Actionable tips beyond the "inbox zero" stuff you typically hear.
The 100 Blogs You Need In Your Life (if you want to leave your job) - Sweetness...and this very blog made the list (#69).
Startup 101: Look Before You Leap - New article series by Patrick Foley of the Startup Success podcast.
Compare Venture Capital Firms - A new comparison engine …
- Kalzumeus Software: Software Businesses In 5 Hours A Week: Microconf 2011 Presentation (1 hour)