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Alternative to ngRepeat for AngularJS

I’ve been playing around with AngularJS repeaters for a while and they tend to be on the slow side with large complex objects, bindings and watches. Here is a littler plunker (at bottom of post) example of another way of displaying repeating data which should be a lot faster than using the out of the box AngularJS ngRepeat directive.

It is stripped right back and very basic but I think you should…

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#AngularJS #ngRepeat #Performance

Top 5 worst things to do in daily stand up

1 Turning up late

Its frustrating for everyone when people consistently turn up late, its even worse when everyone waits for the late comer as the message to everyone else is that their time is more important that the people waiting for them.

People want to get their day started and workout who they will be collaborating with and the various states of items in the sprint backlog. It is an…

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#Agile #CSM #Product Owner #Scrum #ScrumMaster

Contractor productivity tips

Having worked at a number of different places over the years I have collected a number of steps I usually take to get upto speed and start being productive as quickly as possible at a new organisation.

Please feel free to comment and share your own thoughts and ideas which would help fellow developers.

Key code indicators

There are a plethora of tools out there to do some analysis on the code…

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Scrum sprint board and the fear of change

The Change

An interesting thing happened while making a rather small change to a scrum team board layout the other day. Deciding to go from lanes configured like this:

To Do | In Progress | Code Review | In Test | Done

To a much more simplified version like this:

To Do | In Progress | Done The Reaction

Well this didn’t go down well with some people in the team, there was fear of confusion, fear…

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#Scrum #Sprint

Software Developer Workout

Look at any sportsman or woman, any expert in their field and they have something in common, they practice, they practice a lot and they are always trying to get better at what they do.

Continuous improvement should be a huge part of what we do and we mustn’t get overlooked as an important state for us to be in. Hey that’s why we do retrospectives at the ends of our sprints, we recognize that…

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Do you need to be a Star Wars fan to be a developer?

How the tech industry needs to change

I’ve been around and within software companies and IT departments my whole life since I was 17 years old. There have been lots of changes in that time, Waterfall methods, lack of testing frameworks, lack of Google to find and learn about code and the letters T D and D had never been put together as an acronym in IT terms before.

BTW if you dont use TDD please…

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VSCode Snippets

Following on from a previous post where I briefly went through introducing Yeoman I thought I would do a quick post on Visual Studio Code snippets.

If you’re a .NET developer then you will probably be used to Resharper, this makes Visual Studio just about usable. If you don’t have Resharper then shame on you! Resharper has a template facility which is much like the VSCode snippet feature I’m…

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#AngularJS #Snippets #VSCode

Rapid app development for agile teams

When working in an agile environment its good to be able to prototype quickly, its also good to be able to save time on development tasks. Any software development problem you come across has been solved before so its best not to reinvent the wheel if there is a tried and tested solution out there already that you can utilise.

I am still surprised about how tools like code generators and snippets…

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#AngularJS #Yeoman

Continuous improvement & empricism

I’ve been thinking and reading a lot recently about how to be more successful and get better at the things I’ve been doing for a while. One thing I have noticed is that it is easy to fall into the trap of seeing other people doing the things you want to do and assuming it all came easy to them and/or its natural talent that got them there.

I recently became a Certified ScrumMaster and a main…

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Tracy & Gary interact with each other

Individuals not interacting

All the events in this post are true events but the names and locations of individuals have been changed to protect peoples privacy.

This short script highlights one of the agile principals

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Tracy: Hey Gary we really need a way of letting Bob know when we have got something for him to test

Gary:Hmm yes we do,…

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#Individuals and iteractions

5 Common Agile mistakes

Here are 5 common mistakes I have come to notice in organisations that use an Agile methodology. There is no particular order to these 5, just things I have observed along the way. Some small tweaks are usually all that is required to bring things back onto a better path.

1 Viewing Agile as process driven

More often than not you hear word like “we need to hone our processes”, “how do we fit that…

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This is a great link from a website that details how to split user stories out. There is a flow chart that is really useful too.

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