Graham McAllister

Code + life moments

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Interesting interview about personal kanban

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Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell

This is basically a 1 day product ownership course compressed into 15 minute animated presentation. There's obviously more to product ownership than this, so...

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hall of api shame: boolean trap

Update: Read also the approach to detect Boolean traps (in JavaScript apps) using a simple script. The nice thing working for Trolltech was (among others) learning the principles behind the good AP…

A reminder - don’t fall into the BOOLEAN TRAP!!

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A nice reminder - physical mastery

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How Douw Steyn took a South African concept of insurance to the UK and built a business that generates £100m profit a year - paving the way for his R6.5bn Steyn City.

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WhatsApp Needs Only 50 Engineers To Manage Their 900 Million Users

Find Out How 900 Million Worldwide WhatsApp Users Managed By A Team Of Only 50 Engineers

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HTML5 version for StarCraft game

Good grief #everythingwillbejavascriptsomeday

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Square Root of Kids' Math Anxiety: Their Parents' Help

So-called math-anxious parents who provided frequent help on homework actually hurt their children by passing on their anxiety, a study found.

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The corporation is a monster in the same sense that the creatures in Pokemon are monsters. They are used by people for different purposes but ultimately they are trained creatures.

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Finished this book last week - great resource to have on your desk

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And I got an answer from Matt. Thanks man

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We tore apart Apple's 850-page iBook on its new, simpler programming language, to find out why Apple would introduce a new language--despite all the...

I Like the Dog Cow

There's been some debate about the pros/cons of Apple introducing Yet Another Programming Language for us all to learn.

I see this as a good thing (although of course there's a down side too, isn't life about trade-offs?)- the industry needs to move forward, and Apple in particular needed to move on from Objective C eventually. Some people are mad that they created a whole new language instead of adopting someone else's (existing) language. My take on this: Patents and licensing, baby. Capitalism. They don't want to get sued, or to have to pay licensing fees to a competitor for the rest of forever. So why not innovate and do something new, if you're one of the biggest and most successful technology companies of all time? I'm intrigued to see the new language - who knows, maybe I'll be writing in it someday.

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So this Powershell tip is as useful as its name is cool. I mean, come on ... "splatting". How cool does that sound?

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What really is the highest good, and why?

http://www.tgif.org.za/?q=node/492

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In which I wrote an essay with a couple of my questions about WPF and MVVM. Geek!

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Do as much as you can, every day, and be content with that!

That's my philosophy