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Oct 28
“Don’t shout at your drives, they don’t like it” see the full story at Unusual disk latency : Brendan Gregg. Thanks to Rupert Watson at root6 for the link.
Oct 21
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Understanding BDD motivations better
I posted earlier some reservations about BDD – largely based (as I now understand) on the declared motivations of some BDD practitioners (ringleaders even) that BDD tools enable customers to…
Oct 11
Christoph Niemann as linked to by the also excellent http://www.informationisbeautiful.net, as linked on the ever inspiring CAN… (do I have to go on listing nested sources?)
Sep 27
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The importance of banning anti-social media
While I’m generally against censorship and banning sites, in this case, I can see the need to make an exception.
NB: involves irony
Conduct like Gustavo Dudamel
Free iPhone app (for free): set tempo by waving, and conduct “March to the Scaffold” or “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” from Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
Sep 23
Sep 22
“ For the first product in a startup, your initial purpose on meeting customers is not to gather feature requests. Instead, your purpose in talking to customers is to find customers for the product you are already building.
— The Four Steps to Epiphany, Steven Gary Blank
Aug 25
MVC reading list
An ex-smalltalker* friend always tells me (forgive me if I get this wrong) that MVC is one of the most widely misunderstood programming concepts, and that it gets misapplied and the terms misused, nowhere more so than in web frameworks. Maybe that’s why you’ve got a number of people talking about MVC considered harmful, an anti-pattern. It turns out these authors are really discussing the usage described (I believe) as “Front controller” in Struts (and other web frameworks) not ‘Smalltalk MVC’.
*Hmm. “ex-smalltalker”? Once a smalltalker always a smalltalker.
Having got what little understanding of MVC through web frameworks, and about to embark with another Paul on a major piece of GUI (real desktop, crossplatform GUI stuff), I thought it was about time I (or in fact we) understood MVC properly.
So here’s our reading list to get us started:
- Section 1.2 of the Design Patterns book (on design patterns in Smalltalk MVC)
- A Cookbook for Using View-Controller User the Model-Interface Paradigm in Smalltalk-80 - by Glenn E. Krasner, Stephen T. Pope
- Applications Programming in Smalltalk-80(TM): How to use Model-View-Controller (MVC) by Steve Burbeck
We’re looking for other suggestions too…
Aug 13
Worth looking at: First Dark: Natures Little Helpers
Particularly if you’ve read Oryx and Crake
