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Git for ugly and stupid people; a git tutorial for subversion users
Why Git for Ugly and Stupid people then? What’s this got to do with Subversion? According to Linus Torvalds (author of git and some OS called ‘Linux’ or something) you are ugly and stupid if you don’t...
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Gnome3, Gnome2, Unity, KDE, MGSE, MATE, aaaarggh!
Just over 6 months ago Canonical released version 11.04 of Ubuntu. IMHO every Ubuntu release up until that point had been a major step forward with each release clearly showing improvement over the...
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The Coding Paradox; Write less to write more
I Just Want To Write Code! That is something I hear from a lot of developers; they aren’t interested in any of the other activities involved with delivering a software project. They dont want to speak...
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Coding Heroics vs Testing; Delivering software efficiently and effectively.
How much process do you need to run a software development team? Or a technical organisation in general? Some? Lots? None? Maybe you’d opt for the likes of ITIL and Prince2? Or something lighter...
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We are People not Resources; The poisonous ‘R’ word
Disclaimer: The slightly vitriolic parts of this post are not aimed at anyone in particular! :) What is a ‘resource’ Where I work many of the staff have a habit of referring to people who ‘do’ stuff...
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Functionality is Easy, Performance is Hard, Part one: CPU Time
Make It Work Software developers are really good at getting stuff working, they really are! Even when faced with absurd deadlines, scatter-brained product owners and conflicting demands. Sure some...
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Functionality is easy, performance is hard, part two: Wait Time
CPU performance; Wall time, CPU time, wait time Last time we looked at how a typical system deals with purely CPU-bound applications and how the webserver, OS and CPU cores work together to produce...
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Public Speaking!
I’ve got some public speaking engagements coming up in the next few months which you may or may not be interested in! Both are focussed on software performance. First up is PHPNW2013 in Manchester this...
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