Jonathan's Pancheria

Delicious/metatecture

Feb 04

• MF Bliki: ConversationalStories
  "In terms of coming up with stories, what this means is that they are always something to be refined through conversation - and that developers should play an active role in helping that definition. -spotting inconsistencies and gaps between the stories -using technical knowledge to come up with new stories that seem to fit the product owner's vision -seeing alternative stories that would be cheaper to build given the technological landscape -split stories to make them easier to plan or implement"

Feb 03

• Mobile Application Part - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "The Mobile Application Part (MAP) is an SS7 protocol which provides an application layer for the various nodes in GSM and UMTS mobile core networks and GPRS core networks to communicate with each other in order to provide services to mobile phone users." Wow, a whole new area I know nothing about
• Shareaholic for Google Chrome - Google Chrome extension gallery
  Share any web page with your friends right from the page you are on! This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. Click the shareaholic icon or use a custom keyboard shortcut whenever you want to share, save, or e-mail the page you're visiting.

Feb 01

• Semantic Versioning
  Interesting versioning scheme for software/service releases that discusses one way to handle version number changes. For me, it codifies and regiments version numbering systems I have seen used on lots of different projects.

Jan 26

• In praise of git’s index // plasmasturm.org
  More interesting information about how someone uses the features specific to git as a dvcs (the index). Different take on what the index represents, and how to use it to stage multiple feature commits out of the current diff, or how to handle complicated merges

Jan 18

• Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq
  
• geuis's helium-css at master - GitHub
  Interesting tool to do "code coverage" of css stylesheets. Will find any unused css selectors on a set of pages

Jan 05

• ongoing · Doing It Wrong
  Tim Bray says: "What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups."

Dec 21

• Saying "NO".
  "The difference between a laborer and a professional is that a laborer takes orders from his boss, and a professional provides input to his superiors. Laborers are hired to take direction. Professionals are hired to ensure that the direction chosen makes sense."

Dec 05

• Coding Horror: Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway
  Nothing new here, but a very succinct discussion of what it takes to put out software, especially in the internet age. Probably not if you're writing, say, systems that could hurt people or things if they fail, but....