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Flow-based Programming 26 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am
Wikipedia’s page on FBP list a number of interesting references, many of which are worth a read. More recently Eventually Consistent offered a few interesting postings.
Jasmine-style BDD tests in Scala 25 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
I write a lot of JavaScript these days and got quite accustomed to Jasmine-style unit tests with their expressiveness and flexibility. I also code a fair amount of Scala and one thing I miss every tim...
Book: Getting More 25 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
I came across this book whilst in an airport (no surprise). After only a few chapters I felt the need to recommend this book to others who could benefit from the contents. What follows is the usual ...
10 Trading Glitches That Stopped The Markets 24 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
Wall Street & Technology provide a list of 10 notable software glitches that caused market mayhem. Although a very interesting read as to how to loose a substantial amount of money, it does beg the q...
RxJava – Introduction to Rx 20 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
My recent Rx reboot, this time in Java, allows Google to remind me of Lee’s Introduction to Rx book as a useful source of Rx information, in combination with the RxJava wiki. The acknowledgements pag...
RXJava Airplane Coding 19 Aug 2013 | 06:55 pm
Managed to get a few hours in during the long return flight from Sydney to London. Most of the coding was around enhanced scenario testing and refactoring the underlying codebase to further leverage ...
Remote Teams are Difficult! 13 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am
Lets start by saying that even a team located in the same building, on the same floor, sitting together and working on the same project, often have collaboration issues that take time to iron out. Wh...
Toxic Teams 12 Aug 2013 | 07:54 am
Todd Henry offers an interesting read on “Toxic: Dealing With A Culture Of Blame”. On the gossip point mentioned in the article, I’d say gossip is sometimes also known as “water cooler chatter”, or “...
NSA Dragnet – What’s the Techology Architeture? 12 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
Most of us have probably read something about Snowden and the NSA data collection. ACLU’s recent article, “A Guide to What We Now Know About the NSA’s Dragnet Searches of Your Communications”, provid...
Management: The 5 Deadly Diseases 11 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
Dr Denning provide a view from 1984, which is still of value today. I’m sure anyone can relate to many of these at some point in their career 1. Lack of constancy of purpose. a. No planning for the ...
