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Asynchrony Community Blog: January 2009

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This is a blog set up for Asynchrony employees, contractors and clients. Views expressed here are not the views of Asynchrony Solutions, Inc. and are the personal expressions of their creators. Friday, January 30, 2009. Announcing Trinidad: In-process test runner for FitNesse wiki pages. How to log Rails 'rake stats' command output over time and add extensions to it into CruiseControl. Clarke Ching's "Rocks into Gold". Hiring Software Developers: The Agile Aptitude Test. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Sure,...

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Finally, a use for checked exceptions | Andy Palmer

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Finally, a use for checked exceptions. Thursday, November 17, 2011. Those of you who have followed my blog, been subjected to it on a client site or have talked to me about programming will know that I have a few issues with checked exceptions. Well, this morning I had an idea of a potentially powerful use of checked exceptions (if only temporarily). The same people who will have heard about my dislike of checked exceptions will probably also know about my dislike of returning null. Lean on the compiler.

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Thinking (out loud) Fast and Slow | Andy Palmer

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Thinking (out loud) Fast and Slow. Thursday, November 13, 2014. This is an unfinished thought. I’ve started reading Thinking Fast and Slow. By Daniel Kahneman( check out my Kindle highlights. Kahneman was one of the first to identify cognitive bias in our thinking, and this book describes a metaphor for two systems of thinking; System 1 (fast, intuitive, prone to bias) and System 2 (slow, methodical, conscious) working together to influence our interaction with the world. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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November | 2014 | Andy Palmer

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Monthly Archives: November 2014. Thinking (out loud) Fast and Slow. Thursday, November 13, 2014. This is an unfinished thought. I’ve started reading Thinking Fast and Slow. By Daniel Kahneman( check out my Kindle highlights. Kahneman was one of the first to identify cognitive bias in our thinking, and this book describes a metaphor for two systems of thinking; System 1 (fast, intuitive, prone to bias) and System 2 (slow, methodical, conscious) working together to influence our interaction with the world.

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What can a consultancy do for me? | Andy Palmer

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What can a consultancy do for me? Monday, July 2, 2012. An external consultancy can help an organisation progress in a number of ways. When not outsourcing, these usually fall into three categories; training (someone shows you what to do, in a controlled environment), mentoring (someone shows you what to do, in your own environment) and coaching (someone encourages you to explore and develop your own environment). Model or to Conscious Competence in the four stage model. The coach will generally guide th...

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metaphor | Andy Palmer

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Thinking (out loud) Fast and Slow. Thursday, November 13, 2014. This is an unfinished thought. I’ve started reading Thinking Fast and Slow. By Daniel Kahneman( check out my Kindle highlights. Kahneman was one of the first to identify cognitive bias in our thinking, and this book describes a metaphor for two systems of thinking; System 1 (fast, intuitive, prone to bias) and System 2 (slow, methodical, conscious) working together to influence our interaction with the world. Do you have enough oil? When I h...

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Opscode Chef and the Single Responsibility Principle | Andy Palmer

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Opscode Chef and the Single Responsibility Principle. Tuesday, September 3, 2013. My current project is managing the software and distribution of a hardware appliance. We send out physical machines to our customers and we really need to know that they are all identical. I’ve set up a build system that uses PXE to boot the Ubuntu installer, which is preseeded with a very. In my pattern, the. File in the recipe consists only of includes. The default recipe is used to make sure that something useful happens.

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Andy Palmer | Views on software, technology, consulting and business process | Page 2

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I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. Saturday, August 14, 2010. I want to get rid of the habitual naming of methods, like #agile #kanban #lean. Flowchainsensei sounds like a revolutionary idea. I’m in. now all we need is a name. AndyPalmer I want … but seems sadly impractical or contrary to the way humans work. In 1956, George A. Miller wrote a paper arguing that the conscious mind, the part that contains our inner voice and that does the reasoning processes, can handle 7 2 items. One thing I’v...

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What’s wrong with technical tutorials | Andy Palmer

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What’s wrong with technical tutorials. Monday, March 10, 2014. I’ve been diving into a few new technologies recently, and I’ve been heading to Google to find tutorials and documentation to help me out. I was describing my frustration with the way these tend to be written to my colleagues. A typical example is the “Do something with x in 20 minutes” tutorial. For Ruby on Rails, it’s writing a blog engine, and for Angular, it’s a to-do list. Fragility of Design-Pattern Named Classes. You may use these.