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Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Fossil - A 450-million-year-old squid fossil was dug up in upstate New York. Blog moderation policy.
19 hours ago
The Document Foundation Planet

How your donations helped the LibreOffice project in 2024 - [image: LibreOffice donations infographic]
1 day ago
RepRap: Blog

eSun Triangle Print Success! - I re-ran the print of the triangles, this time with a base size of 300μm and eSun Standard Resin. The resin reservoir was a little further away, so this ...
3 days ago
Krebs on Security

How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets - Carding -- the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data -- has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happil...
3 days ago
Mitigated Frenzy

University of Manchester Senate Campaign - Placeholder while I spin things up.
1 week ago
Light Blue Touchpaper

Rossfest Symposium reminder - Just a quick reminder that the final registration deadline for the Rossfest Symposium is 25 February 2025. The event is on 25 March 2025. https://www.cl.ca...
1 week ago
Ken Schwaber's Blog: Telling It Like It Is

Scrum Uses the Best Processes - You have been given a new, very important assignment . Imminent security threats have been detected. Several security issues, that if not addressed, will p...
1 week ago
mySociety

TICTeC 2025 keynote announcement: Fernanda Campagnucci - The keynote speakers set the tone for TICTeC each year, kicking off the conference with a timely provocation that seeds ideas through the sessions that fol...
1 week ago
ongoing by Tim Bray

Posting and Fascism - Recently, Janus Rose’s You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism crossed my radar on a hundred channels. It’s a smart piece that says smart things. But I ende...
1 week ago
Dr. Chucks Blog

Dr. Chuck’s Social Media Footprint - This is a list of my social media accounts and how I use them: BluesSky – https://bsky.app/profile/dr-chuck.bsky.social – I use this for just stream of con...
1 month ago
Alasdair Stuart's Blog

Dear PT5-Compass Roses - Dear PT5 How are you doing? All set for the trip? Before you go, let me show you the UFO I grew up under. Image: http://www.island-images.co.uk/2023/2302...
2 months ago
Insights You Can Use

Generalists, Specialists, and Learning- Law of Jam Episode 17 - The argument over whether specialists or generalists are more valuable to an organization has been going on FOREVER. And the answer is --of course-- it d...
4 months ago
Lessons Learned

Strong Governance Actually Makes Weak Companies - I’ve spent a lot of time in recent years thinking about governance: its role in the current state of the markets and society, the way it functions in ind...
6 months ago
Apache Software Foundation Blogs

[ANNOUNCE] Apache NetBeans 18 Released - The Apache NetBeans team is pleased to announce that Apache NetBeans 18 was released on May 30, 2023. What's in the Apache NetBeans 18 release: https://...
1 year ago
Dave Farley's Weblog

MSEC – The Modern Software Engineer’s Companion - I have been working on a side project over the past year or so. I had been making content for my YouTube channel and publishing articles, how to guides and...
2 years ago
The Apache Software Foundation Blog

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 August 2022 - Happy Friday, everyone --let’s review the Apache community’s activities from over the past week: *ApacheCon™* – the ASF’s official global conference seri...
2 years ago
Latest News

Map & Match Project Presents Existing Digital Tools to Adapt for COVID-19 Response - The Talking Book was highlighted as a tool for risk communication Previous epidemics like the Ebola outbreak proved the need for a coordinated approach to...
3 years ago
Planet Intertwingly

encoding_rs - A Web-Compatible Character Encoding Library in Rust. (Used in Firefox.)
4 years ago
Posts of Event Announcements

Agile Yorkshire: Online! - Agile Distributed Teams - 30th April 2020 - Agile Yorkshire: Online! The Agile Yorkshire team are pleased to be able to bring you all the insights from our monthly event to the comfort of your home...
4 years ago
Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm

Risk Communications and 2019 novel coronavirus - I’m delighted to discover that Peter Sandman posted an email he shared with a journalist about some of his thoughts risk communication in the wake of the 2...
5 years ago
LeanEssays

Grown-Up Lean - *Lean was introduced to software a couple of decades ago. * * How are they getting along? * This working paper was submitted as a chapter in *The Interna...
5 years ago
Planet Apache

- View from the twenty-second floor of the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto Traveling west means waking up early and enjoying sunrises, as long as there’s a good ...
5 years ago
Do It Yourself Agile

Coaching Can Be Fun! - There are at least three good reasons to have fun when coaching. First, sharing a good laugh together is a great way to build rapport. It reminds us that...
5 years ago
Inductive Bias

Apache Board of Directors - a retrospective - Last term I had the honour of serving on the ASF board of directors, better explained in context of the ASF governance structure. As quite a few directors ...
5 years ago
Stephen Colebourne's blog

User-defined literals in Java? - Java has a number of literals for creating values, but wouldn't it be nice if we had more? Current literals These are some of the literals we can write...
5 years ago
Manchester Digital Laboratory

Hello to The Old Bank Residency! - Welcome to Old Bank – the new home for MadFabLab, and our new Manchester City Centre base. We’ll be sharing ‘The Bank’ with previous PLANT inhabitants St...
6 years ago
Lean Simulations

A Practical Guide to Kaizen Events - Kaizen! Do you say kaizen event, kaizen activity, kaizen blitz, or cheese blintz? No matter what you call it, kaizen events are focused, quick and often d...
6 years ago
Microformats

microformats.org Year 14 — Welcome New Admins - In microformats.org year 14, we welcome new admins: Aaron Parecki, Gregor Morrill, Martijn van der Ven, and Sven Knebel! All have been active for years, he...
6 years ago
Agile & Business

By: Last opportunity to be Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) this year - PMAGP - […] He often co-teaches these courses with other great Scrum trainers. Take a look at Joe’s blog, Agile & Business. […]
6 years ago
Proper Facebook Etiquette

#3018 bit worried about my cat’s data on facebook - It has come to my attention that Facebook has ‘improperly shared’ my cat’s personal data with Cambridge Analytica. I thought it was weird that he was getti...
6 years ago
DanNorth.net

In praise of SWARMing - Most of my work these days is helping organisations figure out how to be more effective, in terms of how quickly they can identify and respond to the needs...
7 years ago
OSS Watch team blog

New OSS Watch videos! - As part of a project on Open Innovation at the University of Edinburgh, Scott Wilson from OSS Watch took part in a series of videos on software in open inn...
7 years ago
Fragile

How to Scale an Engineering Team - I recently spoke at Code Slinger on the subject of scaling engineering teams through periods of rapid growth. The video is not yet publicly available, but ...
7 years ago
JRoller

Kafka Clustering, Consumer Failover, Broke Failover - This tutorial covers Kafka clustering and replicated topic. It demonstrates consumer failover and broker failover. It also demonstrates load balancing Kafk...
7 years ago
Sebastian Kübeck's Weblog

What is your definition of “Estimate”? - For about 20 years I’ve been struggling with effort estimation. I have gone through many heated discussions on whether an estimate is too high or low and i...
7 years ago
Open Source. Open Learning.

The Roehampton Annual Computing Education Report 2015 - This report aims to analyse the uptake of computing / computer science qualifications at GCSE and A-level by looking at the schools that offered the qualif...
8 years ago
Agile in a Flash

Why Test-After Coverage Is Lower - Unit testing after the fact? We do just enough test-after development (TAD) to please our manager, and no more. *Just Ship It!* Once the business realize...
8 years ago
Selfish Programming

Uke the World - “Without music, life would be a mistake” – Nietzsche When I was little, I was taken to Yamaha piano classes every Saturday. I remember sitting between two ...
8 years ago
LornaJane

Find Mongo Document By ID Using The PHP Library - My new job as a Developer Advocate with IBM means I get to play with databases for a living (this is the most awesome thing ever invented, seriously). On m...
8 years ago
Weirdest Undreamt Use Case

Nóirín Plunkett - https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertburrelldonkin/5729816462 smiles and socks retreating in co. wicklow now empty whiskey and secrets bar camping in ox...
9 years ago
Links

Vietnamese Style Sweet and Sour Lamb - Disclaimer: I have almost no experience cooking Vietnamese, this is just a distillation of various recipes I’ve only read. Lamb steak (or other meat: just ...
9 years ago
Partnership & Possibilities

Partnerships and Possibilities, Episode 7, Season 6: The Soft War On Diversity - Photo Credit: FLASHFLOOD® via Compfight cc [introduction] Sharon wants to hear about conference sessions on women in tech that Diana attended. [2:20] How d...
9 years ago
Hedtek blog

Changes at Hedtek - After seven productive and enjoyable years we’ve shut down the previous incarnation of Hedtek in favour of avenues new. We no longer perform bespoke develo...
9 years ago
Agile Coaching

- I've moved my blog over to http://rachelcdavies.github.io/
10 years ago
The Agile Coach Toolkit

Concurrent Algorithms - Anyone can write concurrent code using Test Driven Design? Inconceivable! Experience TDD and concurrent programming from inside a Parallel Human Computer S...
10 years ago
Agile Tips

Sarajevo Special Scrum.org Product Owner Training - Studies* show that certain memories help us learn and remember more effectively. Combine a course with a team building exercise, an appraised movi...
10 years ago
Hedtek Dev Blog

Maverick Adventures with Google Authenticator - *Please note, this article assumes you're somewhat familiar with running commands in a terminal and editing system files. If you are not comfortable with t...
10 years ago
David Harvey

Musings on measuring - Nothing happens just because you measure. You don’t lose weight just by weighing yourself. Or maybe I did not stand there long enough? (Bjarte Bogsnes on T...
10 years ago
Clark & Parsia: Thinking Clearly

Stardog World Tour - We’re giving talks about Stardog at meetups on the East Coast over the next few months: - Washington DC, February 18th at 6:30pm
11 years ago
Groklaw

Forced Exposure ~pj - The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. There is no way to do Groklaw without email. There...
11 years ago
RepRap: Builders

CadQuery is OpenSource! - We're pleased to announce that CadQuery is now available under the LGPL license.: https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery Enjoy powerful scripting on your ow...
11 years ago
PatchSpace Blog

The Pocket Calculator Kata - This is just a short post to link to *The Pocket Calculator Kata*. The aim of this kata is to implement (most of) the features of the Casio SL-1100TV 10-...
11 years ago
Stephen Colebourne's Weblog

Blog moved!!! - *This blog has moved!* I have moved the history of posts and comments from JRoller to the new location of blog.joda.org. However, I can't find a way to ...
13 years ago
Star Owl

Summer haze in paint - My last fabric order included some bamboo silk. I’m planning to use some of this as a lining but this leaves me with spare fabric. It’s very soft, flowin...
13 years ago
zoe's blog

JAX London April 2011 - JAX London was a great conference. The venue was better than before and they have refined the speaker selection to suit the target London audience. There w...
13 years ago
Untangled

ICSE Most Influential Paper award - On the same day that Liam was born, I received news that one of my two papers published at the ICSE 2000 conference has been given the International Confer...
14 years ago
Tembrel's Tome

Concurrency issues in Restlet - Issue #368 in the Restlet issue tracker was originally focused on the Guard class. Since then, I've taken a look at the rest of the org.restlet package and...
17 years ago
Process, People, and Pods

...And How Are You Going to USE That Information? - I cited in my last post a case where Counting Wasted Time. I ended by giving my favorite response when someone is asking to collect data about the projec...
17 years ago
Sam Ruby

null - I like Dave's InfoWorld slides very much. But to me, reality is much more fractal. Bridges are complicated structures. Bootstrapping is definitely the...
23 years ago
Scrum.org News

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Imran Ali

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Continuous Delivery

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West Yorkshire Tech

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Steve: Developing on the Edge

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News | The Fifth Sector

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Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile®

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Software for humans, not for machines

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Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland

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Stefano's Linotype

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All Jobs: GeekUp Job Board

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