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Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful things so that people can do stuff. He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has two favorite tools: duct tape and WD-40. And he will wield them elegantly even as your go-cart is careening down the hill at a mile a minute. This will happen while other programmers are still at the starting line arguing over whether to use titanium or some kind of space-age composite material that Boeing is using in the 787 Dreamliner.
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Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis set up their business formally earlier this year, though have worked together on projects over the last couple of years and known each other for longer. At the centre of their business strategy is open source, with all works they create being placed online for others to download and use or adapt after they are finished. You might imagine that this approach would cause anxiety in some of the advertising agencies or brands they have been talking to, but surprisingly this is not the case. “We say everything upfront,” says Lewis. “A lot of people said to me ‘no-one will want to open source their projects, you’re crazy’, but no-one’s had a problem with it so far.”
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L'australien Joel Parkinson a remporté la nuit dernière l'édition 2009 du Rip Curl Pro Bell's Beach, deuxième étape du championnat du monde. Après la Gold Coast en mars, c'est le second succès pour Parkinson. Retrouvez les vidéos de la finale mais aussi des 1/2 et 1/4 sur Surf n' Sport.
Joel Parkinson remporte le Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast dans des vagues de plus de 3 mètres à Kirra. Déja vainqueur en 2002, il s'impose face à Adriano de Souza, le brésilien. Retrouvez le résumé et les vidéos des demi-finales et de la finale.
They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.
because old advices are even more precious when they are old.
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Arte est (encore une fois) partenaire d'une belle initoative, qui plus est bien réalisée. "suivez pendant deux mois, les chroniques vidéos courtes (2mn) de Gaza et Sderot, pour suivre la vie de cinq personnes de chaque ville. Tous les jours, une vidéo palestinienne, une vidéo israélienne" (avec du Alexandre Brachet et du Joel Ronez dedans ;-)
Using Evidence-Based Scheduling is pretty easy: it will take you a day or two at the beginning of every iteration to produce detailed estimates, and it’ll take a few seconds every day to record when you start working on a new task on a timesheet. The benefits, though, are huge: realistic schedules.
Realistic schedules are the key to creating good software. It forces you to do the best features first and allows you to make the right decisions about what to build. Which makes your product better, your boss happier, delights your customers, and—best of all—lets you go home at five o’clock.
A more general approach that the SCRUM one I got so far.
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Our Boing Boing Gadgets editor, Joel Johnson, wrote an article for the magic-themed issue of MAKE on how to build a fireball shooter. Today, MAKE's video producer, Kip Kay has a video on the awesome shooter.
Incroyable : l'Histoire retiendra qu'en 2008 Luc St-Elie s'est réincarné sous les traits d'un gay juif new-yorkais. // En conclusion : Joel attribue le futur déclin d'IEx par trop de concessions faites aux "Trotskystes" (standardistas).
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Le MySpace des Fleurs Noires Extraits: - Tango Atroz - Sombras - Urbano - Candombe del Funeral Direction et piano: Andrea Marsili, Bandoneon Solo: Veronique Rioux, Bandoneones: Carolina Poenitz et Eve Cupial, Violin Solo: Anne LePape, Violins: Andrea Pujado, Solenne Bort et Luciana Jatuff, Cello: Veronica Votti, Contrabass: Anne Vauchelet Chanteuse invitée: Debora Russ Percusioniste invité: Joel Grare
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