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Story and Sprint Required. I’m a Software Architect hired into a company that uses Scrum. Like most software developers of the current era, I’ve read the Agile Manifesto and embrace its spirit. Most of its concepts and related practices are not only valuable, but are essential today: rapid release cycles, frequent customer interactions, automated tests, continuous integration. One of…. December 31, 2014. 4 1 = 6: The Surprising Math of Software Teams. November 9, 2014. Story and Sprint Required.

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Fun with the Flickr API - Gear 11

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Fun with the Flickr API. October 27, 2014. JimF 14-10-04 Riversance 00132 by Jim Frost. Is a granddaddy of Web 2.0 services. I first came across it almost a decade ago, and while other APIs have come and gone. The Flickr API seems pretty much the same as always. I had an itch to scratch related to screen savers, and it was a good excuse to poke around the Flickr API again. There are lots of Flickr-based screen savers out there in Flickr’s own App Garden. Based primarily on its simplicity and maturity.

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You can't unsee JavaScript variable hoisting - Gear 11

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You can’t unsee JavaScript variable hoisting. July 20, 2014. Yesterday I came across another article. Exhorting developers to declare JavaScript variables in a single. Move it to the top, therefore, to avoid confusion…. As far as I can tell, the guidance that variables should be declared via a single. Statement at the start of a function originates (as with much guidance for programming JavaScript the “right” way) from Douglas Crockford. JSLint. For (var i = 0; i. As soon as it was unveiled, a few critic...

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4 + 1 = 6: The Surprising Math of Software Teams - Gear 11

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4 1 = 6: The Surprising Math of Software Teams. November 9, 2014. I recently joined the organization Girls Who Code. Puzzle of complexity by PictureWendy via Flickr. Anna and Beth are two students, deciding whether or not they should work together:. Anna is already a rock star programmer. She can complete the user interface for a feature in 1 hour, and logic in 1 hour. Alone, working for 16 hours, she could produce 8 application features. Could Anna and Beth both benefit by working as a team? Beth seems ...

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Show location-tagged MongoDB documents in a Google Map - Gear 11

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Show location-tagged MongoDB documents in a Google Map. May 13, 2014. The project for this post is called G11MongoDBMap. Available on GitHub). Deploying the project is just a matter of ensuring you have a bootstrapped MongoDB, and then cloning the project from GitHub and following the instructions in the. Step 1: Load a MongoDB instance with geospatial data. You may want to review my post from last week. Field is present and holds a GeoJSON. Step 2: Download, install, and start the G11MongoDBMap project.

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Clone your WordPress site using Docker - Gear 11

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Clone your WordPress site using Docker. January 26, 2014. UPDATE (2 Jan 2015): I’ve incorporated fixes to issues from Simon Kohlmeyer. Including moving to an updated Ubuntu. I’ve also added instructions on Boot2Docker for Windows and OSX users to the README. Is, of course, a wildly popular open source content management system for developing Web sites and blogs. It is built on PHP and MySQL, so it can be hosted virtually anywhere. Is an amazing tool for packaging complex software setups (like WordPress!

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Concurrency, and Python's answer to Goroutines - Gear 11

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Concurrency, and Python’s answer to Goroutines. September 29, 2014. 8221; by Tony Hisgett. From Birmingham, UK – Uploaded by tm. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Recently blogged an example of fetching a list of URLs concurrently in Go, using goroutines:. Nil { / error handling } fmt.Printf("%s: %s n",url,response.Status) }(url) } wg.Wait() / waits until the url checks complete }. Here is an equivalent in Python, using the asyncio module that was added in 3.4:. My intent is not to diss Go&...

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Debugging Cordova on Android with Icenium - Gear 11

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Debugging Cordova on Android with Icenium. December 24, 2013. Developing a new app for Android and iOS concurrently is a daunting prospect. A hybrid app approach, based on Cordova. PhoneGap offers the promise of developing the app once and deploying it to both platforms (and in the process creating artifacts that may be reusable for the Web as well). But the downsides of hybrid apps are significant:. Reduced responsiveness and user feedback versus a native app. Having no easily identifiable cause within ...

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11 Tips for Managing Software Developers - Gear 11

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11 Tips for Managing Software Developers. February 20, 2014. I’ll soon be leaving my job of eight years at PacketVideo, with seven of those spent managing a development team. During this time, my team ranged in size from 5 to 35, spanning a range of few feet to 3 continents. I humbly present my experiences as a software development manager, distilled, abridged, and otherwise compressed into few words of wisdom. 1 On Taking Advice. 2 On Management Books. 4 On Software Development Methodologies. Honest, ti...