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An alternative Communication arrangement
Lync, or as it’s known on the Mac, “Microsoft Communicator” allows us all to keep in contact with colleagues. But when I’m already running Adium (a Mac multi-protocol chat client) to communicate with...
View ArticleThere and back again…
…the story of 3 portlet developers. Whilst developing portlets for the new portal, three of us were moved down to the Systems office in order to be able to concentrate on the task in hand and so as not...
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Employee’s Training and Development
Many organizations seem to think alike about employee training and development, there are more verbal than actual actions should be taken. They are always very casual in saying and doing about training...
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Graph everything and anything
Its commonplace to use Google Analytics to monitor usage and Nagios to get alerts about outages. However some folks are going a whole lot further in the world of data & analytics… Etsy aim to “make...
View ArticleGit branching tidbits
Following a discussion on how to have multiple branches of development going on at the same time, without affecting each other, here are some practical commands when using git. Create a new branch and...
View ArticleThe Skills mix — what is good about being in a team that has a range of...
I should start with my opinionated standpoint, teams that range in experience in my opinion enrich the environment, yes sometimes people at different levels of experience (more or less) than me...
View ArticleAgile lessons from the GDS
What we’ve learnt about scaling agile Two parts from this post discussing lessons from using agile at scale with 140 people and 14 teams stood out for me: Stand-ups work for programmes When you have a...
View ArticleHiding in plain sight
This story begins with a group of people who are expert at looking: the professional searchers known as radiologists… When you ask someone to perform a challenging task, without realizing it, their...
View ArticleThe 3 strikes rule
During one of my stints as SupportWorks gatekeeper I had several calls where I had requested more information about the problem in order to determine how to resolve it. These came ‘off-hold’ still with...
View ArticlePassword management
It’s that time again, where my university password has expired and I’ve been forced to change it. As usual, I am continually trying to enter the old password out of habit. I know I’m not alone in this,...
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