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Planet Intertwingly

For this Googler, teaching code is a "drag" - If you’re looking to learn how to code, there are tons of tutorials on YouTube—but only a few star a wise-cracking drag queen in a candy-colored wig. Tha...
1 hour ago
Schneier on Security

Hacking Hardware Security Modules - Security researchers Gabriel Campana and Jean-Baptiste Bédrune are giving a hardware security module (HSM) talk at BlackHat in August: This highly technica...
6 hours ago
Krebs on Security

Collections Firm Behind LabCorp, Quest Breaches Files for Bankruptcy - A medical billing firm responsible for a recent eight-month data breach that exposed the personal information on nearly 20 million Americans has filed for ...
16 hours ago
mySociety

Coming to the Global Conference on Transparency Research in Rio? - On 26 – 27 of June, scholars and practitioners from all over the world will be meeting in Rio de Janeiro for the 6th Global Conference on Transparency Rese...
1 day ago
Apache Software Foundation Blogs

Release of Apache Bigtop 1.4.0 - On behalf of the Apache Bigtop team, I'd love to announce the general availability of the Bigtop 1.4.0 release. The release is available here: https://b...
2 days ago
The Document Foundation Planet

Week 3 Report - This week: I continue working on Rewriting the logger messages with the new DSL grammar: 1)EditUIObject It wasn't finished last week but this w...
4 days ago
The Apache Software Foundation Blog

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 14 June 2019 - The week has flown by and it's been brilliant. Let's review what we've been up to: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the co...
5 days ago
ongoing by Tim Bray

Go Creeping In - I’ve seen the inside of the Google and Amazon tech stacks. There are common threads that run through them and also, I bet, through most BigTechCos. Here an...
1 week ago
Alasdair Stuart's Blog

Knock Down The House - This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasiona...
1 week ago
LeanEssays

Lean Lunch Lines - Budapest “This doesn’t look good,” Tom said, pointing out six signs high on the wall, side-by-side. Three said “Pork and Beef.” Three said “Fish and Vega...
1 week ago
Posts of Event Announcements

Wed 12th June: Tom Hoyland - Building and Growing an Agile Team plus Jon Fulton - The Art of The Possible - [image: Eventbrite - June 2019 Agile Yorkshire Meetup] [image: Tom Hoyland at Agile Yorkshire] Tom Hoyland - Building and Growing an Agile Team How would ...
2 weeks ago
Light Blue Touchpaper

SHB 2019 – Liveblog - I’ll be trying to liveblog the twelfth workshop on security and human behaviour at Harvard. I’m doing this remotely because of US visa issues, as I did for...
2 weeks ago
Dr. Chucks Blog

What is all the Fuss About Python? - The Python programming language has been around for over 20 years but these days it feels like it is an overnight sensation. Python has moved from being ...
3 weeks ago
Mitigated Frenzy

Some Good Things - We had an 89.2% response rate for the PRES! We were number 1 across the university and smoked Maths (at 81.2%). I’m really happy about that! No one else re...
4 weeks 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 ...
2 months 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 require...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm

Parenting in the face of inequality. - I keep thinking about this chart.
3 months ago
Dave Farley's Weblog

Science and Software Development - I have been talking about Continuous Delivery being, informally, an application of the scientific method to software development for several years now. I h...
3 months ago
Latest News

Sharing Anzilisha nutrition and health knowledge in Kenya - The post Sharing Anzilisha nutrition and health knowledge in Kenya appeared first on Amplio Network.
3 months ago
Ken Schwaber's Blog: Telling It Like It Is

Look at Capability, not Title. - Development team or Delivery team. Continue reading →
4 months ago
Manchester Digital Laboratory

Hello to The Old Bank Residency! - We recently announced that we were taking a break from running a community space and that our custodianship at PLANT was coming to an end. We’ll be takin...
6 months 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 months ago
Inductive Bias

FrOSCon 2018 - A more general summary: https://tech.europace.de/froscon-2018/ of the conference written in German. Below a more detailed summary of the keynote by Loren...
9 months 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...
11 months ago
Lessons Learned

A Non-Profit Lean Startup: The Story of Adopt-a-Pet - David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation. Today it’s North America's largest non-p...
1 year ago
Insights You Can Use

An Alternative to the Annual Review (originally published in 2004) - Well, it’s that time again — time for the yearly performance evaluation. The ritual starts with gathering feedback, proceeds to assigning rating/ranking,...
1 year 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. […]
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Sam Ruby

Realtime Updates of Web Content Using WebSockets - Three mini-demos showing how to implement realtime updates of web pages using WebSockets.
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland

Teaching Scrum at Tesla, Talking with Silicon Valley Agile Leadership Network - During the week of the Tesla Model 3 Launch in Fremont, CA, Tesla invited Scrum Inc. to host a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner course ...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
4 years ago
Agile Coaching

- I've moved my blog over to http://rachelcdavies.github.io/
4 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...
4 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 movie...
4 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...
5 years ago
RepRap: Blog

Open call for AMRI 2014 Summer Fellowships - We are thrilled to announce an open call for Summer 2014 Fellowships at Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute (AMRI), hosted at Rice University in the ...
5 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...
5 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... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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-...
6 years ago
Tembrel's Tome

Converting Forms in Restlet to POJOs with Jackson and Guava - Punchline first. This article presents code that you can use to convert HTML forms into POJOs, mapping property names in the natural way, with support for ...
7 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 ...
7 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
DanNorth.net

Whose domain is it anyway? - The brittleness of tests or specs is a recurring topic in BDD (or acceptance test-driven development, specification-by-example, or whatever you choose to c...
8 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...
9 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...
11 years ago
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