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Agile Missing Link: Software engineering is actually a social science

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:06:00 +0000

Why is it important?

I faith in the heart of every software engineers, there resides a desire to make this a better world than before us. And while doing that we want to be happy with what we do. And happiness is the catalyst for all sort of great things: innovation, productivity... But the bottom line is "Happiness".

For us to be happy, we have to be understood and provided with an environment that cultivates and allow us to evolve as a group to interact and collaborate.

And this will be an evolving post that focus on the above. And your help and comment is appreciated. This post may seem to be very unorganized at first, but it will evolve into shape.

Check it out:

Article: The Art and Science of Software Engineering
Video: John Carmack’s 2012 QuakeCon keynote

The Satir Interaction Model

There are two roles in communication: the Sender sends a message; the Receiver receives it and returns with a response.

The Satir Interaction Model examines what happens within the Receiver: how the Receiver processes the message from the Sender and formulates a response to the Sender.

To understand what goes on within each one of us during communication

To provide insight into what might be happening when a person's response is not what is expected

Resources

Article: The Art and Science of Software Engineering
Video: John Carmack’s 2012 QuakeCon keynote
Link to the PDF: The Satir Interaction Model

I love the dark side of the Eclipse IDE

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:11:00 +0000

Why is it important?

You will be surprised how much difference it will make by having a good color scheme with your IDE.

less eye stress and headache
improve readability of the code, especially when you are pair programming
it makes you much more focused

Resources

Link here For the whole IDE: Dark Juno
Link here Color theme only for the editor
And I have installed both, so I have more choices for the editor. My fav is the Sublime Theme.

Are you outdated? The new landscape of web development: {less}

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:44:00 +0000

Ahhh!! I am so outdated...

One of my 2013 goals is to develop a product that I believe will make a difference in this world. While working on the product I came to a shock how out of touch I am with the current technologies for developing web applications. There has been enormous change of the landscape given the context of web application is drastically evolving.

And this series of blogs will post my findings in this new context.

What is {less}?

I think the official site can describe much better than I do :)

Resources

Official Site

Are you outdated? The new landscape of web development: Akka

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:02:00 +0000

Ahhh!! I am so outdated...

And this series of blogs will post my findings in this new context.

What is Akka

Akka is a tookti and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven application on the JVM.

Why is it important? Watch the video and the links below: "About the Clouds: Introducing Akka" And I left the rest to you and google.

Resources

Above the Clouds: Introducing Akka
Official Site

InfoQ Interview: Continuous Delivery and the Four Principles of Low-Risk Software Releases

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:13:00 +0000

"Summary: More than a year since his book Contiuous Delivery came out, author Jez Humble talks about changes in CD, and its relationships with Cloud development, ALM. He also shares his Four Principles Of Low-Risk Software Releases. Other topics include TDD, feedback at different stages of the pipeline, and his involvement with Devops."

"Bio: Jez Humble is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, and author of Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler's Signature Series. He has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, manager, and speaker. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services, and online retail companies."

Links

Brilliant talks: Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:20:00 +0000

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo.

Bio: Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis.

For more on Bret, see worrydream.com.

This talk was given at CUSEC 2012 (2012.cusec.net).

Alternatives to acceptance testing

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:07:00 +0000

James Shore: Alternatives to Acceptance Testing

It is though differences where we learn the most.

How to solve "Not Enough Time"

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:50:00 +0000

How To Solve “Not Enough Time” « Gojko Adzic

Virginia Satir Change Process Model

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:27:00 +0000

Virginia Satir Change Process Model, a psychological model developed through clinical studies
Link Here

The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:39:00 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starfish_and_the_Spider

The million dollar question to improve your business and organization.

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:34:00 +0000

Biology of Business: Complex Adaptive Systems from Farrow Partnership Architects

A virtual pet that helps you raise your TDD practice!

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:05:00 +0000

http://www.happyprog.com/tdgotchi/?repost=true

This headphone re-defined music for me for just $100.

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:54:00 +0000

Sony MDR - V6 (headphone)
Fiio E6 (amplifier)
Samsung HS3000 (bluetooth receiver)

The combination of Sony MDR-V6 and Fiio E6 (it will work even better with models higher than E6) is just incredible. I have never heard of my music sound so good before. Smooth, balanced and with so much more details. I can hear music the ways they were intended during recording. Especially the texture in the vocal and the sound position in the space, it is like the singer is singing right in front of you. The bass is strong but not boomy. Jazz sounds with so much more feeling. I am not even exaggerating at all. If you live close by, i ll demo it to you. Incredible !!

And the Samsung HS3000 bluetooth receive make it wireless and able to take phone calls. Oh the receiver can pair with multiple device at the same time. I have my phone and music play pair with it at the same time. So it will switch the music and phone call automatically.

I got them all from Amazon.

A coach is like a mirror

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:47:00 +0000

“A coach is like a mirror. You could dress yourself without a mirror, but you’d risk not getting it right.”

Linda Rising

Don't Worry, He said... :) It's true, don't worry.

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:59:00 +0000

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?"

Matthew 6 : 25

I am not trying to be religious here. But this is so true! I am speechless. Weehooo! Let's all work harder!! hahaha :D

A brilliant move to Semantic Web, Facebook! Yup, It is Open Graph!

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:00:00 +0000

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/

Open Source Hardware? huh? It is great!

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:54:00 +0000

http://opencompute.org/

I have finally found my survival knife. I am in love...

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:31:00 +0000

100% Made in U.S.A from a legendary company: Ka-Bar

Many Eyes : Visualization and Data Sets ! fun stuff!

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:21:00 +0000

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

Cloud computing Word Cloud

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:11:00 +0000

Create your own word cloud. It is fun as hell!

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:02:00 +0000

http://www.wordle.net/

Big Data Word Cloud

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 02:59:00 +0000

Freebase: Semantic Web + Open Data by collective human power

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 02:27:00 +0000

http://www.freebase.com/

Google Refine! Thank you for cleansing my messy data!

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 02:24:00 +0000

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/

This is how far "being focused" can get you!

noreply@blogger.com (Luk Lau) — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:07:00 +0000

I am absolutely speechless...

Agile Journal

Agile Missing Link: Software engi­neer­ing is actu­ally a social sci­ence

Why is it important?

The Satir Interaction Model

Resources

I love the dark side of the Eclipse IDE

Why is it important?

Resources

Are you outdated? The new landscape of web development: {less}

Ahhh!! I am so outdated...

What is {less}?

Resources

Are you outdated? The new landscape of web development: Akka

Ahhh!! I am so outdated...

What is Akka

Resources

InfoQ Interview: Continuous Delivery and the Four Principles of Low-Risk Software Releases

Brilliant talks: Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor

Alternatives to acceptance testing

How to solve "Not Enough Time"

Virginia Satir Change Process Model

The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

The million dollar question to improve your business and organization.

A virtual pet that helps you raise your TDD practice!

This headphone re-defined music for me for just $100.

A coach is like a mirror

Linda Rising

Don't Worry, He said... :) It's true, don't worry.

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?"

A brilliant move to Semantic Web, Facebook! Yup, It is Open Graph!

Open Source Hardware? huh? It is great!

I have finally found my survival knife. I am in love...

Many Eyes : Visualization and Data Sets ! fun stuff!

Cloud computing Word Cloud

Create your own word cloud. It is fun as hell!

Big Data Word Cloud

Freebase: Semantic Web + Open Data by collective human power

Google Refine! Thank you for cleansing my messy data!

This is how far "being focused" can get you!

Agile Missing Link: Software engineering is actually a social science