Aimed at parents, [these tips from Zenhabits.net](http://zenhabits.net/2007/05/how-to-become-a-patient-parent/ ) are equally applicable to being a good pairing partner. Just swap out “child” for “pairing partner” or “pair”.
Count to 10. This one really works. When you feel yourself getting frustrated or angry, stop. Count slowly to 10 (you can do this in your [...]
Reddit is amazed by the New Yorker article The Checklist that explains how a simple checklist in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) helped save many lives and lower infection rates in patients from 11% to practically 0. The checklist is given far too much credit in this story though, the important information is that [...]
Be there… learn how the kanban system works for Corbis
Next Meeting Who: Darren Davis, Manager at Corbis What: Kanban workshop When: Monday December 3, 5:30pm - 7:30pm Where: [...]
2008 will probably be the year of JRuby. JRuby solves the two biggest pain points I hear from developers about Ruby.
People think Ruby is slow, so I can’t try it out. I don’t know how we would deploy it, what is all this Apache/Mongrel/Rewrite stuff? Can’t I just deploy on our app server?
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Last night I attended the Seattle Agile Project Leadership Network meeting to see Alistair Cockburn give a talk about all things agile. Thanks go out to David J. Anderson and Dragos for arranging the talk. Here are some quickly scribbled notes:
One person was key to making a project successful, not a [...]