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Backups: a cautionary tale
There's probably some bad karma coming my way for kicking someone when they're so very down, but some situations just seem to embody the aphorism: “It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.” Such is the fate of blogging provider Journalspace. (mirror) Journalspace is no more. DriveSavers called today...
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Continuous Integration Myth: Large Teams Only
It’s been a little while, but my theme hasn’t finished yet. In this case I am revisiting an idea I posted about some time ago. Due to the clear benefits of continuous integration for large teams, sometimes people forget the ways in which it can be useful for small teams. Even teams [...]
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Twitter
As you can see, by the side-bar on the right of my website pages, I am now on Twitter . It took me months to become a blogger, but twittering came to me very, very late. I have never really seen the point - but I am there now... lets see if I too get hooked like many many others.
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Smalltalk in Dallas
Weather permitting, I'll be in Dallas at the local Ruby group tomorrow night - presenting Seaside and Web Velocity. Here's where I'll be, starting at 7 PM: With all the comparisons made between Ruby and Smalltalk and the excitement over the MagLev Ruby VM you might be wanting to know more about Smalltalk. Come and learn more about Smalltalk...
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TwitterFX 0.15 Release notes
WebStart should take care of the upgrade automatically, but, as always, you can install it from http://herod.net/twitterfx/TwitterFX.jnlp Bugs can be raised here: http://kenai.com/jira/browse/TWITTERFX Here are the changes: Release Notes - twitterfx - Version 0.15 Bug [TWITTERFX-5] - Scroll bar on right hand side is obscured by OS window [...]
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How Windows 7 Outshines Windows XP and Vista
We have always been up-to-date with Windows 7. After the disgusting experience with Windows Vista, the whole world has high hopes with the next and what looks to be a very promising version of Windows Operating Systems. So if these articles weren't enough for you to keep up with, Here is an article by Thom [...]
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Career Survey
The upcoming Career 2.0 book is in high gear, but we'd like to include more than our experiences. Over on the Career 2.0 blog we've posted a few questions about your career. Best moves, worst experience, etc. Please drop by and let us know, or send Matt or me email. We're hoping to gather nuggets of wisdom for the book, but we won't quote you...
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Accessors for Object Assignment
How much code do you write, how many bugs occur because one of your objects is null, not set by some piece of code? How many lines of code includes, if (this!=null) etc ? I have seen my fair share of null reference exceptions and you have probably too. So with Null Reference Exceptions being a very big part of development still, we really do...
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What's Your Strategy?
"Fail to plan and you plan to fail" a manager of mine used to say. She was right. If you don't have a target, it's hard to miss, but it's hard to hit as well.Having a road map or strategy is a vital part of anything we do, but we so often muddle through. We adopt the "Just Do It!" mantra. "Shut up and code!" It doesn't work for software...
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Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by Josh Susser
A weekly series from the Ruby Masters Welcome to the next installment of the weekly interview series on the RL blog - “Path to Ruby Mastery” - by top trainers and developers in the Ruby community, from across the globe. The interview series will provide insight and commentary from these notable Ruby trainers and developers, with [...]
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