Blogs

I came across two interesting items on the web today. The first was Rocky Lhotka’s mCSLA series in which he presents a DSL over CSLA. I know, I know but let’s put our opinions about CSLA aside and look at the really important point. Here is a sample of...

I was going to talk about how my digital cleanse reminds me of a macro scale Pomodoro. Then I realized that I never really talked about the Pomodoro Technique. The Pomodoro Technique is a method for getting organized and being focused. It is a time management system created by Franesco Cirillo. I’m going to let him tell you how he came up with the concept:

One day in the classroom on campus where I used to study, I watched my classmates with a critical eye, and then looked even more critically at myself: how I got myself organized, how I interacted with others, how I studied. It was clear to me that the high number of distractions and interruptions and the low level of concentration and motivation were at the root of the confusion I was feeling.

So I made a bet with myself, as helpful as it was humiliating: “Can you study – really study - for 10 minutes?” I needed objective validation, a Time Tutor, and I found one in a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (the Italian for tomato) – in other words, I found my “Pomodoro”.

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Not too long ago, I responded to the reaction that many had to Joel Spolsky’s article “ The Duct Tape Programmer ”. My belief still remains that people missed the point due to the unfortunate titling (as well as the severe dating of the technologies mentioned...

This one comes from the Lean Startup Circle again. Someone posed the question what is the difference (if any) between capital ‘L’ “Lean” and “lean”. Having had the opportunity to attend a David Anderson presentation on the subject of Lean Software Development...

I think people misinterpreted Joel Spolsky's post " The Duct Tape Programmer " (not the best choice of words because of the connotations of using duct tape as a "temporary quick fix" in the developer's mind) but there is one...

I guess I have awakened a slumbering giant by writing the post the other day . I went back to add more functionality to the Service Locator (to enable per transaction and per thread services). Before I started breaking stuff by adding new functionality...

 

Hi again,

I was a little bored this weekend and needed to add in some GA functionality to a side project. I felt like it would be best to create a simple executer to deal with the iterative behavior of a genetic algorithm. The executer take in funcs provided by the consumer and executes based on a simple iterative model. Below is what I came up with. Cheers!

 

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