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WLUG's Upcoming Meeting Schedule. When: Second Thursdays of every month at 7:00 PM. Where: Worcester Polytechnic Institute. February 11, 2016 - Tim Keller - ELK (Elastisearch, Logstash, Kibana). December 10, 2015 - Dmitri Pal, Red Hat, Inc. - Identity Management, FreeIPA, and Kerberos (slides). November 12, 2015 - Logan Brown - ownCloud introduction and demo. September 10, 2015 - Tim Keller - STEAM - Science Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. July 9, 2015 - WLUG Picnic. October 9, 2013 - Jim G...
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David Kramer’s high-entropy blog. Listening To Your Tools. So the next time you feel tempted to “ignore the Check Engine” light, spend some time finding out if there’s a more elegant solution than putting tape over it. March 16th, 2015. Posted by David Kramer. Resisting the urge to do more. February 4th, 2015. Posted by David Kramer. Lies, Damn Lies, and Burn Down Charts. The burndown chart shows how things are going inside the iteration. July 11th, 2011. Posted by David Kramer. May 20th, 2011. My name i...
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about book design: February 2013
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An occasional chinwag about designing for the publishing industry in Australia. Monday, February 25, 2013. AGDAs inaugural Most Beautiful Books awards. A great bunch of people are involved with this initiative. Have a look and get your entries in. It seems to be a collaboration between the State Library of Victoria, Monash Art, Design and Architecture, AGDA and the Klim Type Foundry. And, by Jove, there are none of those nasty entry fees. 8594; Entries include any books published in 2011 and 2012. Http:/...
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about book design: July 2014
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An occasional chinwag about designing for the publishing industry in Australia. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Well it’s been quite a ride but we’re nearly at our first destination: the ABDA 62nd Australian Book Design Awards 2014. Tickets are selling fast and this year, they are strictly limited. We want this to sell out! Buy your tickets from trybooking here. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Links worth checking out. Http:/ blogs.crikey.com.au/culture-mulcher/. Http:/ covers.fwis.com/.
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about book design: January 2013
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An occasional chinwag about designing for the publishing industry in Australia. Thursday, January 31, 2013. IDEAS for the APA panel welcome. The 7th Annual Book Design Discussion Panel in the Sydney Writers Festival (and later perhaps in the MWF) is in its planning stages and brought to you by Australian Publishers Association (‘APA’)Professional Development. The APA want to know what you’d like to hear about. What’s pushing your design buttons this year? Who would you like to hear speak? Http:/ www....
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David Kramer’s high-entropy blog. I’m glad Microsoft is embracing open source. When someone, especially new software developers or those still in college, asks me whether they should learn Java or C#/.NET, my normal answer is something like “They both do. The same thing, but Java will run on almost anything, and almost all the development tools are free. With C#/.NET you could pay hundreds for Visual Studio. And the programs will only run under Windows. Microsoft is opening up major parts of the .NET...
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David Kramer’s high-entropy blog. MVP is a VIP (Very Important Practice). MVP stands for (in this article) Minimum Viable Product. It’s not an Agile concept. It’s not even a software-specific concept, though it’s certainly easier to do with software, since upgrading software is usually easier than upgrading hardware. The concept is simple: Instead of building every feature under the sun into your product then releasing it, build the least you think people will buy and release. July 9th, 2016. This is esp...
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David Kramer’s high-entropy blog. Listening To Your Tools. So the next time you feel tempted to “ignore the Check Engine” light, spend some time finding out if there’s a more elegant solution than putting tape over it. March 16th, 2015. Posted by David Kramer. All content 2016 David Kramer. MVP is a VIP (Very Important Practice). Two Java Phone Screen Questions. What does your company maximize? Why Is Performance Management So Taboo In Agile? My account on StackOverflow. My account on LinkedIn.
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David Kramer’s high-entropy blog. Resisting the urge to do more. As a Software Engineer and as a geek, I face many tempations. One of them is “I can add this really cool feature while I’m in the code, and it will take hardly any extra time. It won’t impact any of my other work at all”. There are some very good reasons why you shouldn’t do it though, and why it’s an Agile anti-pattern. You are part of a team. The extra work you do may not create much burden on you, but it may create a burden on others.