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Project idea: .love -> .lua
I’ve started learning about the 2D-games-development environment called LÖVE at love2d.org. Basically, it wires together lots of “de facto standard” multimedia libraries (like SDL/OpenGL, OpenAL,...
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pytddmon.org
I’m proud to announce my first project-specific URL: pytddmon.org! Please visit, and by all means if you feel like it try pyTDDmon out. And gimme some feedback – either on website, pyTDDmon or both
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Mega backlog
Remember the old saying “Once you know a thing’s name, you control it”? That wisdom is encoded in one of the most important aspects of the Scrum team software development practice: having a backlog. A...
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The Law of the Project Triangle
Boss: “We have to make the deadline on time!” Developer: “Sure. Do you want to drop features or quality…?” Boss: “I want all features and no bugs, if that is what you mean by quality!” Developer: “So...
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Finishing home projects
Me and a friend sat down to discuss projects we’ve actually managed to finish, and not just start and drop. We’re both notorious start-from-scratchers, jumping from project to project, never really...
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The Castle in the Sky
Developer: “We could improve the error message when that happens, if we are going to fix a bug in that area, right?” Boss: “No, do not spend time on that, we are going to rewrite the whole...
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Scouts’ Rule
(Context: a chat session following a code review. Developer one has solved a bug in a really old piece of the system. The code change has been checked by developer two. Even though the bug seems to...
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Use Your Software 1 – Brain
This is the “catchall” topic about not following rules blindly. This means, if you ever criticize any of the topics I write about, I can always point you towards “Use Your Software – Brain” and tell...
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Programming In The Small
“Uh oh. I made a clean spot here. Now I’ve done it. Guess I’ll have to do the whole thing.” –E. Ripley The risk with getting attached to the idea of Programming In The Small—abbreviated PITS from now...
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Don’t Repeat Yourself – 1
Support technician: Will the formatting be fixed in excel export too? Developer: I don’t know. Will have to check… No, I will have to change the code there too. Support technician: … OK, that will have...
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G.T.D. update – Evernote is history
This blog post was supposed to be about the last ideas I’ve picked up from the book. Instead, it will be the blog post where I say good bye to Evernote! I was not able to download an image from a note...
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G.T.D. weekly review of system
The Getting Stuff Done book prescribes getting into the habit of reviewing your own GTD system (on top of checking the actual content of your “inbox” and all the lists and plans) once a week. I’ve done...
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My GTD system, iteration one
loungerie / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) I promised myself to decide on a first iteration of a personal G.T.D. system earlier today. While...
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GTD – emergent physical inbox
I’ve started reading the chapter about implementing a GTD system on your own. The book seems to prefer simple systems, and generally, physical things: a physical inbox, a physical filing system (at...
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One more GTD chapter
P.Woolley / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Not until I read the chapter about collecting everything did I understand how hard GTD is to get...
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Trusting my GTD system
Theophilos / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) I have been learning about Getting Things Done, GTD, for little more than a month by now. I’ve...
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