Mitch Pronschinske05/01/13
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Get some advice for dealing with burnout or if you find that you don't want to program anymore. Plus some important news about the JS spec "Promises" and a 17 year old girl who won a major hackathon.
Johanna Rothman04/30/13
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And, since I’m cheating on how to do a real personal kanban, I thought I would at least describe for you how to do real personal kanban over at Personal Kanban for Your Job Hunt.
//Code for Joining Multiple Documents Together
[C#]
// The document that the other documents will be appended to.
Document doc = new Document();
// We should call this method to clear this document of any existing content.
doc.RemoveAllChildren();
int recordCount = 5;
for (int i = 1; i <= recordCount; i++)
{
// Open the document to join.
Document srcDoc = new Document(@"C:\DetailsList.doc");
// Append the source document at the end of the destination document.
doc.AppendDocument(srcDoc, ImportFormatMode.UseDestinationStyles);
// In automation you were required to insert a new section break at this point, however in Aspose.Words we
// don't need to do anything here as the appended document is imported as separate sectons already.
// If this is the second document or above being appended then unlink all headers footers in this section
// from the headers and footers of the previous section.
if (i > 1)
doc.Sections[i].HeadersFooters.LinkToPrevious(false);
}
[VB.NET]
' The document that the other documents will be appended to.
Dim doc As New Document()
' We should call this method to clear this document of any existing content.
doc.RemoveAllChildren()
Dim recordCount As Integer = 5
For i As Integer = 1 To recordCount
' Open the document to join.
Dim srcDoc As New Document("C:\DetailsList.doc")
' Append the source document at the end of the destination document.
doc.AppendDocument(srcDoc, ImportFormatMode.UseDestinationStyles)
' In automation you were required to insert a new section break at this point, however in Aspose.Words we
' don't need to do anything here as the appended document is imported as separate sectons already.
' If this is the second document or above being appended then unlink all headers footers in this section
' from the headers and footers of the previous section.
If i > 1 Then
doc.Sections(i).HeadersFooters.LinkToPrevious(False)
End If
Next i
Sean Hull04/30/13
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The sales team made promises of technology the company wasn’t capable of delivering. Meanwhile the engineering team was sent scrambling to answer to those promises. This is why I started out hating sales in my early career.
John Sonmez04/29/13
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It is to easy to get hung up on a mistake and become paralyzed by it in such a way that it prevents you from having future success. I seem to have an instinctual desire to throw away what I am doing or try to completely wipe the board clean, whenever I make a mistake.
Roman Pichler04/29/13
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Scenarios and storyboards are great tools to describe how users interact with a product. They also complement user stories nicely: Scenarios and boards help explore risky stories, discover new user stories, and capture the relationship between stories.
Martin Fowler04/29/13
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A component test is a test that limits the scope of the exercised software to a portion of the system under test. It is in contrast to a Broad-Stack Test that's intended to exercise as much of the system as is reasonable.
Jim Bird04/29/13
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A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be divided up: who is going to work on what code; how much work can be, and should be, shared across the team; and who will be responsible for code quality.
Zac Gery04/29/13
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Denouncing multitasking might sound crazy, but let's put some context around the statement. Multitasking made the modern computer a viable solution. The desire for people to multitask in business is a natural progression.
Kane Mar04/29/13
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Richard Hundhausen has put together a great list of funny Scrum/Agile related videos. Some of these are classics such as High Moon Studios: Portrait of Scrum and Adam Weisbart’s Shit Bad Scrum Masters say.
Giorgio Sironi04/28/13
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How wonderful is the world of REST (or maybe ROT) web services... But many legacy and enterprise systems that we need to integrate are only accessible via SOAP. With a bit of experience and the right testing support, SOAP web services are not technologically difficult to call from PHP code.
Oscar Berg04/28/13
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Yahoo’s decision to ban working from home can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention. Whatever the reasons might be, to me their decision sends out a signal of desperation and reveals that Yahoo's management is incapable of dealing with flexible working.
Martin Fowler04/28/13
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A business-facing test is a test that's intended to be used as an aid to communicating with the non-programming members of a development team such as customers, users, business analysts and the like.
Rob Allen04/27/13
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My chosen color scheme for Sublime Text doesn't include support for diff/patch files, so I added my own.
Esther Derby 04/26/13
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“Part-timers just don’t seem to fit in with the team,” a manager complained recently. “I do everything I can to impress on them the importance of teamwork and team spirit, but they just don’t gel with the team. What can I do to motivate these people to fit in?”
