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The Document Foundation Planet

Calc Guide and Writer Guides available for browsing - The Documentation team just published the Calc Guide and Writer Guide as on-line pages in the Bookshelf at https://books.libreoffice.org Presented as web p...
14 hours ago
Schneier on Security

The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization - The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few deca...
21 hours ago
mySociety

TICTeC keynote speaker announcement: Nick Mabey OBE - Hot on the heels of our last big announcement, we’re very happy to confirm our second keynote for TICTeC, The Impacts of Civic Technology conference 2024: ...
21 hours ago
ongoing by Tim Bray

Mobile Typing Pain - I ran a Fediverse poll asking how people go about entering text on mobile devices. The results shocked me: Half the population just taps away. Do you? Read...
1 day ago
RepRap: Blog

Z axis variations - Now I can actually move around and scratch things with the probe I'm noticing an awful lot of variation in the Z axis. Whenever I move to a new bit of th...
1 day ago
Krebs on Security

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme - The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for ac...
3 days ago
Light Blue Touchpaper

RIP Ross Anderson - Someone else will undoubtedly say it much better than I will here but one of us has to break the very sad news: Ross Anderson died yesterday. His enthusias...
3 weeks ago
Dr. Chucks Blog

Sakai 23.1 maintenance is released! - I’m pleased to announce that Sakai 23.1 is now available for downloading[1]! Sakai 23.1 has 212 improvements [2] including Other areas improved include: ...
1 month ago
Stephen Colebourne's blog

Pattern match Optional in Java 21 - I'm going to describe a trick to get pattern patching on Optional in Java 21, but one you'll probably never actually use. Using Optional As of Java 21,...
2 months ago
Insights You Can Use

What Is in Your Organizational Closet? - Do you need to clean out your organizational closets? Closets are where we store useful things. But they also tend to accumulate items that no longer pro...
2 months ago
Mitigated Frenzy

2024 UCU Elections - It’s that time of year. Yay. TL;DR UCUCommons is running a slate. Please vote for them. It would make my life easier. They are very good and sensible folks...
2 months ago
Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland

Leaders Leveraging the OODA Loop for Value Stream Management - Discover the OODA Loop's application in Value Stream Management. This post delves into its use for impediment resolution and continuous Scrum improvement...
3 months ago
Alasdair Stuart's Blog

Facility 23 Final Quarter Threads - Home stretch! The last three months of the year were incredibly busy and the daily posts fell off as a result. Despite that I’m really proud of the last ...
3 months ago
Ken Schwaber's Blog: Telling It Like It Is

Scrum Guide - I have been getting queries recently. People want to know when the next Scrum Guide is coming out. The 2020 Guide took Ralph Jocham, Don McGreal and me six...
7 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://...
10 months ago
Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm

Archaeological Stratigraphy - This drawing is a good summary of what we are finding as we clear out our house of three plus decades, as we prepare, in our retirement, to sell and move t...
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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
LeanEssays

When Demand Exceeds Capacity - We are getting solar panels on our roof. Someday. We signed a contract last November and the original estimate for installation was May. Since no one d...
1 year ago
Microformats

How to Consume Microformats 2 Data - A (very) belated follow up to Getting Started with Microformats 2, covering the basics of consuming and using microformats 2 data. Originally posted on wat...
2 years ago
Lessons Learned

Honesty and Optimism in the New York Times - I recently spoke with the* New York Times* about an issue that's both very much in the news and on my mind: building a company honestly. The temptation ...
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...
2 years ago
Lean Simulations

Remote Lean Training? The Wordpoint Game - It's been about a year now since the term social distancing has become part of our daily lexicon. The big question for lean training is, are there any l...
3 years ago
Planet Intertwingly

The Security Failures of Online Exam Proctoring - Proctoring an online exam is hard. It’s hard to be sure that the student isn’t cheating, maybe by having reference materials at hand, or maybe by substit...
3 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
Agile Tips

Vamos limitar o WIP dessa pandemia! -
4 years ago
Agile in a Flash

Feel Like You've PARTIED With Mobbing - *A new AIAF post by Tim Ottinger / Jeff Langr.*Mob programming sounds like a chaotic way of developing software: Get everyone into a room with a computer, ...
4 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

Take a Leap of Faith in Your Coaching - There are many aspects of coaching that involve an element of risk. Taking a risk requires courage. Consider how the following coaching techniques requir...
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
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...
5 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. […]
5 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
7 years ago
Selfish Programming

Play for Your Life - Land of the Living Dead Have you ever had an idea haunt you night and day for years and years? An idea that won’t be deterred in spite of all the naysaying...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Agile Coaching

- I've moved my blog over to http://rachelcdavies.github.io/
9 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...
9 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
10 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...
10 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
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...
12 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...
13 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...
16 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...
16 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...
22 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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Stephen Colebourne's Weblog

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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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Stefano's Linotype

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Hedtek Dev Blog

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All Jobs: GeekUp Job Board

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