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Responding to Brian Marick – Steve Freeman
Discussion of end-to-end tests with links to various blog posts that don't like them.
softwaredesign  tips 
5 weeks ago by emilsit
Are You Invisible? | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
Do Better, Look Better, Connect Better.
business  career  management  tips 
5 weeks ago by emilsit
Better Teamwork Through Better Workplace Design - Anat Lechner - Harvard Business Review
"Focus on four main activities. Employees need to have areas for concentrated work (such as unassigned individual workstations), emergent social exchange (free-flowing hallways), learning (rooms equipped with technology and tools), and collaboration (group spaces for co-creation). The key is to make sure the different types of spaces are integrated with each other and open to all, so people can freely choose where to be based on what they're doing."
business  tips 
5 weeks ago by emilsit
Cooking Tips and Cooking Questions Answered - Cooking Light
cooking  food  tips 
9 weeks ago by emilsit
Edoceo's Blog: Amazon EBS - How to Grow the Storage
snapshot, create volume from snapshot, resizefs, remount
ec2  tips 
december 2011 by emilsit
Coming Home to Vim / Steve Losh
Some very useful tips and plugins for setting up Vim.
vim  tips 
december 2011 by emilsit
The Truth About Abs: How To Make $1,000,000 Profit Per Month with Digital Products (Plus: Noah Kagan results)
"Sell the customers what they want, but give them what they NEED."
business  tips 
november 2011 by emilsit
Github Hooks for Jenkins Continuous Integration
Jenkins/Hudson allows triggering a build with just a URL. This post explains how to set it up in GitHub (and similar instructions work for BitBucket) even if your Jenkins requires authentication.
github  hudson  jenkins  tips 
november 2011 by emilsit
Tech Lead Checklist to Kick your Team into Gear
management  tips 
november 2011 by emilsit
Body Language Signs - Body Language of Women - Oprah.com
Sit expansively. Talk slowly.
posture  tips 
november 2011 by emilsit
Volatile and Decentralized: Software is not science
Focus your research on answering questions, not producing software. (Producing software may be a nice side-effect of your work, but not a requirement.)
research  tips 
november 2011 by emilsit
5 ways to keep your rockstar employees happy — Online Collaboration
What keeps you a happy developer? My rules: (and compare to ). What are yours?
management  tips 
october 2011 by emilsit
The Tricks Investors Use Against Founders
business  tips  startup 
october 2011 by emilsit
Callbacks, synchronous and asynchronous : Havoc's Blog
A tricky bug like this is why we have concurrency frameworks like #Akka: so that most of us don't have to solve it
asynchronous  tips  Akka 
july 2011 by emilsit
From IntelliJ IDEA to Eclipse (4) « Virgo's Naive Stories
java  eclipse  reference  tips 
june 2011 by emilsit
The Connected Company › Give pods a chance
Another overview of podular companies, 3 case studies (3M, Amazon, automotive manufacturing), a list of challenges/questions that companies who want to go this route should ask themselves.
business  organization  tips 
may 2011 by emilsit
apenwarr - Insufficiently known POSIX shell features
Lots of useful portable sh tricks
bash  unix  programming  tips 
march 2011 by emilsit
Anna's Alfred Hat Tips
Alfred is a launcher like QuickSilver
osx  software  tips 
february 2011 by emilsit
Messages from mrhaki: Gradle Goodness
Blog with short succinct and useful posts with various Gradle recipes.
gradle  tips 
january 2011 by emilsit
Stephen's Java Adventures: Keeping Hudson configuration and data in SVN
Script to sync Hudson configuration into subversion.
hudson  configuration  tips 
january 2011 by emilsit
behind the times: Mockito - Pros, Cons, and Best Practices
A comparison of Mockito and EasyMock but the real value is in the best practices.
java  tips  testing 
december 2010 by emilsit
Sonatype Blog » Maven Continuous Integration Best Practices
Use batch mode and separate repositories.
maven  tips 
november 2010 by emilsit
Configuring Maven HTTP Connections | Brett Porter
Ah, it is possible to enable caching in certain versions of Maven. Tricksy and obscure.
maven  tips 
october 2010 by emilsit
Viddler.com - TEDx Learning Series: Transform Your Presentation into a Visual Story - Uploaded by juliewurm
How to put together a compelling presentation. Nancy Duarte.
presentation  tips  toread 
august 2010 by emilsit
A List Apart: Articles: Kick Ass Kickoff Meetings
Plan plan plan. Make it fun. Ask hard questions. Do something interactive.
management  tips 
august 2010 by emilsit
A few git tips you didn't know about
Indeed, the title says it all.
git  tips  reference 
august 2010 by emilsit
Who-T: On commit messages
Good summary of commit message best practices and why.
scm  tips  article  documentation 
july 2010 by emilsit
Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? Answered by Insiders
Build a culture of doing stuff.
startup  business  tips  culture 
june 2010 by emilsit
The Five Whys for Start-Ups - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
Something go wrong? Ask "Why?" five times and you may find a human problem, not a technical one. Spend energy to fix proportional to impact.
business  management  startup  tips 
june 2010 by emilsit
Why Startups Should Train Their People // ben's blog
1. Its efficient way to leverage time into producitivity gains.
2. Everyone knows what to expect.
3. Maintain quality.
4. Keep people happy and learning.
business  management  tips 
may 2010 by emilsit
SSH tips and tricks | /dev/rant
Fine compilation of useful SSH tips.
ssh  tips 
april 2010 by emilsit
A Hierarchy of Needs for Code - Patrick Dubroy's blog
Thinking about programming and how to prioritize things like functionality versus maintainability versus elegance.
programming  tips 
april 2010 by emilsit
:: WormsWrangler Red Worms | Worm Bin | Worm Farm | Compost Tumbler ::
Detailed background and instructions on making vermicompost.
worms  vermicompost  tips 
april 2010 by emilsit
History as documentation : Inside 245s
Yes! "Developers should be highly encouraged to write impeccably descriptive commit messages (with the diff in hand: never write a commit message without the diff in hand) for the sake of those who may pick through the logs in the future. It's ok to even be a little wordier than you might be in an inline comment..."
commit  tips 
april 2010 by emilsit
nvie.com » Blog Archive » A successful Git branching model
A detailed walk through of one way to manage a development and release process using branches with git. Clean, plenty of example command, and a PDF summary diagram for printing.
git  tips 
april 2010 by emilsit
Scarba05 Limited — Integration testing of Spring’s MVC annotation mapppings for controllers « Blog — Integration testing of Spring’s MVC annotation mapppings for controllers
A recipe for integration testing Controllers.
java  spring  tips  testing 
april 2010 by emilsit
How to fix the dreaded "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" exception (classloader leaks)
Actual instructions on how to get a memory dump and examine which classes are left behind after an unload on your tomcat server
java  gc  debugging  tips 
april 2010 by emilsit
Vimcasts
Screencasts about vim. Good basic stuff. Learn it.
vim  tips 
march 2010 by emilsit
Why bribing your child doesn't work. - By Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella - Slate Magazine
"When you're consciously using praise to change behavior, the key is noticing and praising the behavior promptly, specifically, and precisely so that it occurs again and can be praised again. We want repeated practice to lock in the habit, and praise helps that to happen."
parenting  tips 
march 2010 by emilsit
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.
This is, I think, the full text of the ORA book. Looks like definitely worth reading.
book  programming  reference  tips 
march 2010 by emilsit
PressThink: How the Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists
How to run a conference panel for a high-visibility event like SXSW so that you can get engagement both from the people present and the people who are following online. It's not just the panel, it's the pre and the post too.
conferences  tips  backchannel 
march 2010 by emilsit
Sonatype Blog » Maven Tips and Tricks: Advanced Reactor Options
Use --project and --also-make flags to limit build to a particular sub-module, while still handling internal dependencies.
maven  tips 
march 2010 by emilsit
Sense & Serendipity: Improving Legume's Digestibility
Soak 'em, add spices, kombu, discard foam, avoid combining with starches, add an acid, chew more.
food  tips 
march 2010 by emilsit
Got Emacs?: Quickly Creating LaTeX Tables in Emacs
...sounds cool, though I don't use emacs.
latex  emacs  tips 
february 2010 by emilsit
Leadership: How to Ask the Right Questions - BusinessWeek
"The right questions rely on the leader's ability to communicate authentic interest in learning the answer. They come from a place of not knowing. The right questions are open-ended, carry the possibility of true discovery, and demonstrate a willingness to share and bestow credit." Classes of questions: perspective, evaluative, action, knowledge.
leadership  skills  tips 
november 2009 by emilsit
Obie Fernandez: 10 Reasons Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses
What one person thinks you need to get productive pair-programming coders. Looks like a good list to me.
programming  tips  xp 
november 2009 by emilsit
Factory Joe / Getting Started with Snow Leopard
Chris Messina on what he needs to install to get comfortable using Snow Leopard (and OS X in general, presumably).
osx  tools  tips 
october 2009 by emilsit
Dr. Dobb's | Debugging Makefiles | February 5, 2007
Actually useful tips for getting (GNU)make to tell you something useful.
debugging  make  tips 
september 2009 by emilsit
briancarper.net :: Keeping bash history in sync on disk and between multiple terminals
Simply put, "shopt -s histappend" and add 'history -a; history -n' to your PROMPT_COMMAND.
bash  tips 
september 2009 by emilsit
My Git Workflow
A nice post on different git workflows. The best part is about branch naming: "Using ‘origin’ as the name of your remote and ‘master’ as the name of your main branch is just the default settings git gives you. Neither name is magic. So, I renamed ‘origin’ to ‘github’ in .git/config to be explicit about where the code is going. Then, I created a new branch ‘development’ to reflect the code that is under the mainline of development."
git  workflow  tips 
january 2009 by emilsit
How to Self-Destruct by Jason Seiden » How to Self-Destruct… free ebook version!
A tongue-in-cheek career advice e-book, also available on Amazon (highly rated).
toread  career  advice  tips 
december 2008 by emilsit
Macintosh Performance Guide
From digilloyd, a comprehensive guide on how to select Apple hardware and then configure it for maximum (Photoshop) performance. It has some benchmarks though I didn't look at those. Seems regularly updated (as it refers to CS4 and new unibody macbook pros). Recommends buying refurb.
reference  hardware  software  performance  configuration  tips  macosx 
december 2008 by emilsit
Python with a modular IDE (Vim)
Fabulous set of tips for configuring vim to be more python-ide-ish. Tags, tabs, code-eval and debugging, etc.
vim  python  configuration  tips 
september 2008 by emilsit
The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design — Jon Tan 陳
Examples of fine uses of paragraph, web typography, some few CSS examples to back-it up and links to exemplary sites.
webdesign  reference  tips  css 
july 2008 by emilsit
Lightroom Folder Structure Tip
An idea for how to manage internal/external drives.
photography  dam  tips 
july 2008 by emilsit
Table of Contents | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
fonts  webdesign  toread  reference  writing  tips 
june 2008 by emilsit
Paging systems and Conference Bridges for startups & small teams - O'Reilly Radar
Simple recommendation for using free and existing services to rapidly hook up teams.
phone  tools  tips 
june 2008 by emilsit
Rapid Composition - How to Compose a Photo Quickly
3 examples from initial scene, through thought process, to final image.
photography  tips 
february 2008 by emilsit
Solve problems by writing a note to yourself | 43 Folders
I want to send this link to people all the time.
tips  article 
february 2007 by emilsit
Street Shooting: How To Be A Crocodile: Canon SLR Lens Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review
DPReview article on street shooting technique.
photography  tips 
september 2006 by emilsit
Managing Digital Images: Applying Ratings and Keywords
How to apply star ratings to make it easy to find good images.
photography  tips 
june 2006 by emilsit
Tips for Writing Technical Papers
Basic tips for structuring a research paper, particularly in CS.
tips  writing 
april 2006 by emilsit
Tips for Energy Saving (PDF)
A pamphlet from the government of Canada aimed mainly at home owners with large number of tips on how to plan, evaluate, buy energy efficient appliances in the home and simple changes to help conserve energy.
condo  energy  tips 
april 2006 by emilsit
How to get the most out of conferences - scottberkun.com
Useful tips; mostly stuff I know but don't always do.
social  tips  conferences 
march 2006 by emilsit
Photography Reviews, How-To, and Galleries of Digital Grin
Usually well supplemented with pictures due to the fact that they're
using smugmug's galleries and journal display style for each
review/how-to/tip/etc.
photography  tips 
february 2006 by emilsit
PlanetNeil photography - techniques for better flash photography
How to bounce flash and fill flash
photography  tips 
january 2006 by emilsit
Jay Andriot | Basic Portrait Lighting
Long and detailed discussion of different lighting types and how to achieve them
photography  tips 
january 2006 by emilsit
Celsius1414: Zen Pockets
Carry less stuff
tips  travel 
june 2005 by emilsit
bobbyvandersluis.com | Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005
webdesign  tips 
april 2005 by emilsit
How to Cut...
Tips for cutting foods efficiently.
cooking  tips 
march 2005 by emilsit
GUUUI - Navigation blindness
How to improve the design of your WebUI navigation system
webdesign  tips 
march 2005 by emilsit
Quick Online Tips: Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tool Collection
delicious  tips 
march 2005 by emilsit
Best of VIM Tips, VIM's Key Features
vim  tips 
february 2005 by emilsit
(La)TeX Navigator
latex  tips 
november 2004 by emilsit
One Bag (all about packing, luggage, and travelling light)
travel  packing  tips 
october 2004 by emilsit
hack collections
macosx  tips  software 
october 2004 by emilsit

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