Distributed Version Control - Joel On Software

Joel on Software blogged about DVC over a year ago and included a link to a pretty nice Tutorial to Mercurial. Might want to bookmark these sites.

Information Gap - Have You Got This In Your World

Mind The Information Gap

Unequally Yoked - Reminder

An individual's personality affects his ability to perform particular job assignments: One of the bullets was ..... The best programmer was put in charge of a team of beginners. Not having the patience to tutor his people, he changed their code in the middle of the night! Although his designs were wonderful, his team neither enjoyed working with him nor learned much about programming.

Page 45 in Agile Software Development - Alistair Cockburn

Motivational Quote On Permission

Once again, I find myself pointing to the keyboard and saying get back to work and do your job the way you know you need to. Stop letting them make you compromise so much. Prove to them why you are so valuable and stop marching according to their defined instruction. Be the expert at how to do your job and manage your craft!

By Kevin Schlabach

Responsive Design - Interesting

One of the things I really appreciate about Kent Beck is that he constantly is thinking about how people do things, especially in programming software. He does not seem to take for granted anything related to how we work. Always wanting to look deeper and find out why and how we as programmers do our work then he tries to articulate what he has learned for others to learn from and build on. A couple of examples of his sharing are Extreme Programming (XP) and Test Driven-Development (TDD). In recent, years Kent has been studying and researching Design.

Here is an article summarizing some of his thoughts about Responsive Design.

Definitely, food for thought. I look forward to more information on his research and results.

Version Control By Example - Cool

Appreciation of good and pedagogical examples is one of my Learning Languages. A while back I came upon this website that offers a free book on version control. Everything from VCS (SVN) to DCS like Git and Mercurial is touched on in this document.

I have a quick link to Version Control By Example when I want to share Version Control or to learn something new. I even keep a pdf version on my laptop. Have a look and see if it is useful to you.