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Kent Beck talking about Ease at Work
Postado por Henrique Bastos como English em 4 de junho de 2009
Today I came across an old talk Kent Beck gave sometime near mid 2006 entitled “Ease at Work”.
More than speak about professional behavior, Kent Beck describes by example the psychological structure of a software developer at work.
In a more deep sense, this is a talk about self-awareness, getting real, and getting things done. So even if you’re not a programmer, I recommend it. Leia o resto desse post »
Bibliography gives you credibility
Postado por Henrique Bastos como English em 2 de junho de 2009
After I released my post “Google Wave is not about text, it’s about data”, my friend Rafael Lima twitted praising it (in portuguese): Gosto de post que clico em vários links para ler mais como este”. Which means “I like posts with lots of links to read more about, like this”.
It’s very important to have the habit of spend some time finding the right links to reference in a blog post. Links are extremely powerful! It can turn a post into a knowledge hub.
Adding much relevant links as possible to your posts, not only add value to your text but gives credibility to it. It works just like bibliography in books.
Google Wave is not about text, it’s about data infrastructure
Postado por Henrique Bastos como English em 1 de junho de 2009
Google unveiled a new service called Google Wave, a new live communication and collaboration platform. This new wave got some attention and lot’s of rumors started with speculations and predictions about how it would impact e-mail, instant messaging, and even Twitter.
Those articles were somehow superficial and focused too much on people “immediate” (as in chat) communication and collaboration. Like instant messaging wasn’t real time enough so Google came up with an upgrade with it’s new web application.
IMHO that’s only the tip of the iceberg. It’s not simply an improved way of communication. Putting directly: Google Wave is not about text it’s about data!
OS X Automation with Applescript to generate Word for Mac documents from templates
Postado por Henrique Bastos como English em 11 de abril de 2009
Autoword Project is an OS X automation based on Applescript Application to DRY the process of filling up Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac template documents.
As part of a selling processes, a friend had to fill up three documents with his client’s information: a letter, a label, and a warranty card. Doing this manually was extremely error prone and annoying.
So what if he could type his customer’s data once and get all the three documents ready to print? That’s what the Autoword Project do! Leia o resto desse post »
Patch for Redmine to persist form state when adding multiple issues
Postado por Henrique Bastos como English em 26 de março de 2009
When creating a new issue in Redmine, one remarkable feature is the possibility to save and continue.
This simplifies the process of adding multiple issues from:
- click on new issue;
- describe and save it;
- get redirected to the saved issue details;
- click on “new issue”.
To just:
- click on “new issue”;
- describe, save and continue.
This is very useful! And could be better if Redmine didn’t reset the entire form, making the user set every issue attribute again. Leia o resto desse post »
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