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Upgrading Evernote has a new version, v10 of the app. I got the notification to update in the old app, and clicked to upgrade. I’m on mac, so I needed to download the new version… …strange, that didn’t happen before. Usually it just updates. The new v10 version looks like the web version It reminded me immediately of the web version. I have been using the web version of evernote on my work laptop....
Highlight in webpages, structure them and you get a mindmap for free. All without the need to reading! The design is still a quite rudimentary. And it’s got some situations where it has some bugs/glitches. But it’s multi-user, and (mostly) usable! In a web-page, you can create highlights, simply by selecting some text: Then you can drag&drop highlights on top of each other to create a hierarchy. And your mindmap is automatically generated!...
Programmer Anarchy For more detail here is link to a presentation Fred George gave, and a link to the slides. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk-CF7klLdA http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-amsterdam-2011/slides/FredGeorge_ProgrammerAnarchy.pdf Company: Forward Fred George’s experience of Programmer Anarchy has been at an internet advising company called “Forward” where they got “40 geeks together” and instituted the new methodology. They work for a number of high profile clients, including “Search” a big energy company. And they report not only happy programmers but also some impressive statistics:...
Video: Implementing Programmer Anarchy - Fred George Implementing Programmer Anarchy - Fred George (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIxHmsWCd7g) story tyranny requirements hierarchy story level “Interact with customer on story level” Kent beck scrum ppl micromanage: task level standups: who is doing which task feature level: much more efficient what do you want to accomplish? ok, get out of our way I know how to get this thing done I will come ask questions when I need more information...
Video: The Secret Assumption of Agile - Fred George Video: The Secret Assumption of Agile - Fred George (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Efy4RB_kw) tasking cycle duration of steps simple design (Model_ 4 rules of simple design) book: refactoring apply refactoring Book_ Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky apply patterns learn to write in this style learn + apply can learn on the job (if the team is working this way)...
Video: Phoenix a Web Framework for the New Web - José Valim Phoenix a Web Framework for the New Web - José Valim (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk3icU8iIto) client socket server socket server channel
Tidy First? - Kent Beck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFFY9Zor6zw) 2 types of people: waiters and changers 2 relationships: - waiter - changer - changer - changer (breaking api changes) -– 4 levels of insight into design there’s changes there’s 2 types of changes: structure & behavior there’s a sequence, which you can plan (“I can change this structure, so I can do that behavior change easier”) experiment: make pull requests with only behavior or only structure, get into prod user visible changes at the end of the sequence...
3x Explore, Expand, Extract - Kent Beck ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlJN6_4yI2A ) Question, to be asked early on. small investment - big investment (—) return on investment (red line) waterfall resurgence let’s first do a market survey let’s do a business model refinement let’s then develop QA new product development with waterfall large investment, small chance of payout Question: what do you have to lose? first question I need to ask, to decide how to operate...
Video: Beyond Agile Programming @ Startup Lessons Learned - Kent Beck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4qldY0g_dI)
Video: Continued Learning the beauty of maintenance - Kent Beck (https://youtu.be/3gib0hKYjB0)