Since often that mirror fog and a morning shower go hand in hand, it can be a great way to set the tone for your day. “Oh yeah. This is what I want to focus on/feel like/think about today.” Right now on my mirror I have a simple message: “Life [...]
I learned about mind maps at Thoughtworks, where they had been in use for test case management (and lots of other things) long before I arrived. The key advantage of mind maps, as Robert Sabourin points out in the article, is that “…misunderstandings and ambiguities are exposed and resolved in real time as [...]
I hope I never find an Antonio Banderas cut out, ever.
Today in my downtown office building, someone found a life-size cardboard cut out of Antonio Banderas in a ladies restroom. No one knew how it got there or why it was there. If it was yours, sorry for your loss [...]
The main problem I am trying to resolve is the situation where you want to prevent two projects from running at the same time. Why would you want to do that? Perhaps you have resource constraints like a file system directory or a database the unit tests run against. For instance we have [...]
To give you a 100% practical example, just today I committed 1600 files which I had to back-out almost immediately because I realised I had broken something. Now, ignoring the why’s and how’s I managed to get myself into such a pickle, the fact is I needed to rollback a commit. Here’s what [...]