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Matt Vickery05/21/13
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Git - Simple File Management

Files can be added, committed and removed from git repositories using one or more of the following commands:

Johanna Rothman05/21/13
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Context Matters: Premature Optimization or Habits From Long Ago?

I’m at the Much Ado About Agile conference this week, in beautiful Vancouver. During lunch one day, one of the conference participants started talking about premature optimization of code.

Giorgio Sironi05/20/13
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Slack, the missing concept

No matter how fast you are, there will always be more work for you: so deliver a sustainable amount of value, because it's your job to avoid destroying the system for short-term needs.

Joel Cochran05/20/13
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The Stand Up Desk Rises to the Occasion

Joel Cochran experiments with a few standing desk strategies and settles on a desk that moves up and down. You should check out the pics. It's pretty cool.

Jurgen Appelo05/20/13
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Let's Measure Something Meaningless

Measuring something meaningful is hard, so let’s measure something that is meaningless but easy. Like your hours at work!

Swizec Teller05/19/13
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It Takes About Two Months to Write a Technical Book

If you really want to learn something, write a book about it. It doesn’t take long. After two months of plomping my arse down repeatedly I finally finished my d3.js book. Or rather, I finished the first drafts.

Rogier Noort05/19/13
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We're All Born to Blog

After reading Tao of Twitter and Return on Influence written by Mark, and Stanford’s reputation, my expectations were high.

Mitch Pronschinske05/19/13
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How to Argue About Code

None of us would be very good developers if we never had arguments about The Best Way to Do Things. But I've had enough silly arguments about tabs-versus-spaces to last me the rest of my life. When should we stop arguing and start writing code?

Kane Mar05/19/13
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Absolute Estimating vs. Relative Estimating

I’ve started work on some new videos and this time it’s all about Agile Estimating, Planning and Contracts. This is the obvious next step having completed Scrum101, and I’m apply some of the lesson that I learned.

Mitch Pronschinske05/18/13
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Transform Your Agile Process with Kanban Thinking

Large-scale software and systems development involves a complex mix of people, teams, technologies, skills, architectures, and organizational structures that must all interact for projects to reach their goals. However, many organizations struggle to scale up agile approaches for their various programs, products, and services.

Tom Howlett05/18/13
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These Moments are Precious

The moments when excitement builds throughout the whole team at the delight of discovery and creativity are precious. These moments feel like play rather than work and they breed openness and courage. So what conditions must exist for these moments to happen? Here’s some ideas...