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Coffee, Code and Candor. Tech talk with a dash of opinion and caffeine. Update on some things. Posted on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by javamate. One thing I will make note of in the hope that it will be useful to someone else, is that if you are working with Grails and wanting to deploy a WAR to some servlet container that only implements Servlet Specification 2.3 you can do the following:. Grails -Dservlet.version=2.3 war. Rails Tip: Overriding Defaults in ActiveRecord. Perhaps you want a model to represen...
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BitBasher: Tribe Level Ceremonies
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Ed Sumerfield's musings. Life rocks. We take new words from Spotify to describe a scaled agile organization. Tribes contain squads which deliver features. Guilds share subjects and Chapters share skills. This is about extending traditional Agile to optimize for larger teams. Scrum talks of teams with daily Stand Ups and a Scrum of Scums to share between teams. It assumes that information is shared between teams via a Scrum of Scrums representative but this doesn't really work. We now have a definition:.
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BitBasher: January 2015
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Ed Sumerfield's musings. Life rocks. We take new words from Spotify to describe a scaled agile organization. Tribes contain squads which deliver features. Guilds share subjects and Chapters share skills. This is about extending traditional Agile to optimize for larger teams. Scrum talks of teams with daily Stand Ups and a Scrum of Scums to share between teams. It assumes that information is shared between teams via a Scrum of Scrums representative but this doesn't really work. We now have a definition:.
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BitBasher: November 2009
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Ed Sumerfield's musings. Life rocks. Grand Rapids Give Camp - Cincinnati Satelite - Retrospective. What an excellent time, hanging with friends, meeting new people and the opportunity to help out some charities at the same time. I first heard about Give Camp when Mike Wood. Now that it is over, everyone is talking about doing our own in Cincinnati next year so here are some memories to remind us. Thanks everyone, you rock, Rob Biedenharn. It was great working with the Grand Rapids team, Chris Woodruff.
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BitBasher: Ruby Warrior - Trying Again
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Ed Sumerfield's musings. Life rocks. Ruby Warrior - Trying Again. It is clear that a solution to a problem like this can't just be imagined out of thin air. I am just not that smart. Just writing if statements was satisfying and productive to start with but once level 7 hit and I had to change direction there was no alternative but to throw everything away and start again. With this approach, I am making headway but can only solve level 2 because I haven't reimplemented the resting process yet. Walk = Wa...
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BitBasher: October 2012
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Ed Sumerfield's musings. Life rocks. Ruby, SSL and Untrusted Certs. It has been a long time since focusing exclusively on writing Ruby code. So much fun. The last two years have been groovy only which is a great language but there is something pure and simple about Ruby that just takes your breath away. Ruby 1.8.7. Irb(main):001:0 require "net/https" # = true # irb(main):020:0 h = Net: HTTP.new("YOUR SSL SERVER",443) # = #. Factory = SOAP: WSDLDriverFactory.new("#{@url}? The problem was that there is no ...
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BitBasher: December 2009
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Ed Sumerfield's musings. Life rocks. Kanban - A small practice project. A few months ago I completed my first Kanban. Project. The team was small and the introduction informal but it went well. The team comprised 5 people. A technical manager, 3 web developers and me. They managed many projects simultaneously which resulted in a great deal of task switching for the developers. The project was estimated at 2 weeks and involved a UI replacement of an existing web application. A couple of minor business...
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BitBasher: Waterfall Disease - Symtoms, History and a Cure
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Ed Sumerfield's musings. Life rocks. Waterfall Disease - Symtoms, History and a Cure. It is easy to spot the symptoms in aggressive cases but can present in subtle ways as well. It effects individuals and teams and is communicable. The cure is long and slow but the young heal much faster. If you have been infected with this disease for more than 20 years, the chances of a full recovery is slim. An infected team or programmer assumes that the deadline means they will have to hack in a bad fix, even when t...
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BitBasher: Ruby Warrior - Game Emulation
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Ed Sumerfield's musings. Life rocks. Ruby Warrior - Game Emulation. Emulating the black box behavior allows us to build tests that prove your code works, as long, as the emulation remains close to the real thing. The Ruby Warrior runtime has features within it, that I do not know yet since I am still at level 7. The output from my game emulator looks nice and allows me to great new alternative levels that exercise all the features of my player that I wish to. The simple Game runner. Make your own badge h...
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