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Sociolinguistics and Twitter: "If either person hadn't greeted you, you go back to your dorm room or office and wonder, "what happened? why the cold shoulder?" Those small bits of conversation are called phatic communication. Alone those bits are meaningless, but together they build a relationship. Phatic communication keeps the doors open for more communication."
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Long collection of fun 'programmer' web strips.
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Antikewl Daily summary: "The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition stays faithful to the original but with new brand new 2D artwork and audio. It also has its own website. Well, a widget, anyway, with a tiny video stuck in it. [...] But that’s not all! It’s also been announced that Telltale Games, the team who produced the new Sam & Max series, are producing a brand new episodic Monkey Island adventure for PC: Tales of Monkey Island. Like Sam & Max Season One and Two, the new games will be 3D-rendered and split into five downloadable episodes, released monthly."
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"Anyone who grew up gaming on the PC in the early '90s will most likely remember The Secret of Monkey Island, often hailed as one of the best adventure games of all time. Guybrush Threepwood, the naive but enthusiastic protagonist, and the sinister ghost-pirate LeChuck have been in one another's hair fighting for the affections of Governor Elaine Marley over the course of four games."
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05/06/2009
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04/06/2009
links for 2009-06-04
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Lovely account of web UX in a large organisation: "So, since it won’t all get done overnight, don’t give us a bad grade if you don’t see it happening fast enough for your taste. Even a large organization can effect change; it just takes a different approach than the methods found in smaller shops. But it’ll happen because it has to, and we know that. And we’ll keep on keepin’ on, even if most of us really and truly would prefer to throw it all away and start over."
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"It is sometimes said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. This definition has been attributed to Ben Franklin and Albert Einstein, but research shows it is unlikely either originated it (there are many more instances on the web, I just referenced one). In years past I modified the quote to say good developers test quite well, bad developers run the same code over and over again expecting it to pass at some point in the future! I think we would all agree we try not to be insane. Unfortunately, when it comes to agile implementations we can not only become insane, but we sometimes even try to defend the insanity!"
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Tobias Mayer's lovely WelfareCSM, offering the Certified Scrum Master course to those who can't afford to pay the normally painfully high prices.
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Dave Nicolette's summary of the highs and lows of XP2009.
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15/05/2009
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Yet another martial arts and agile/kanban/lean comparison, but a nice one (on Jeet Kune Do):
"To reach the masses, some sort of big organization (whether) domestic and foreign branch affiliation, is not necessary. To reach the growing number of students, some sort of pre-conformed set must be established as standards for the branch to follow. As a result all members will be conditioned according to the prescribed system. Many will probably end up as a prisoner of a systematized drill."
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12/05/2009
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"Part of the confusion about teams vs. projects is caused by the mistaken assumption that a group of people assigned to a project will work as a team. Unfortunately this is not the case, project teams don't get the chance to behave like teams. Project teams are short-lived, they break up when the project is done or cancelled. They are volatile, people are pulled off the team when needed somewhere else. And often project-teams are unfocussed, older projects still need work so team members work on more than one project and are on more than one team."
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"He equates the professionalism I was talking about in my keynote with those repressive environments. He seems to think that professionalism and artistry are mutually exclusive. That wearing a green band means you give up on beauty. That discipline somehow saps programmer happiness."
Nice argument for artistry and professionalism not being mutually exclusive.
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11/05/2009
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An interesting short summary from systems thinking perspective on people who value tools and processes.
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09/05/2009
01/05/2009
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Swine Flu in the Hundred Acre Wood (cartoon)(tags: cartoon)
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(tags: development gender)
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(tags: development gender)
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(tags: development gender)
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This presentation caused quite a stir - see other links.
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Scrum Alliance service marks “Scrum User Group” - wants license agreements from groups(tags: scrum)
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26/04/2009
links for 2009-04-26
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So many twitter analysis sites these days, so little time.(tags: twitter Communication)
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An ongoing collection of witty one-liners from twitter.
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"In the village, people laugh at this statement. One of the defendants rented an apartment above the town hall. "Is it a clandestine method?", asks Jean-Michel, who goes on: "Can one be labelled terrorist because he does not have a mobile phone?". Here, mobile reception is poor."
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(or how to save the mobile web)
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(tags: storytelling Folklore)
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15/04/2009
24/03/2009
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I'm failing to see why this news article has prompted such a strong response in the comments. Where is the harm in teaching Makaton alongside English?(tags: video)
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Brighton-based video. Now mentally added to my collection of films that make no geographical sense travelling through Brighton.
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