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    Mastering Visual Communication

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    Excellent Websites

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    Agressive Dates

  • quote

    Go

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    Guerilla Programming

  • git · github · presentations

    Git From The Inside Out

  • ci · git · github

    Fix My PR

  • quote · wodehouse · shakespeare

    Dare Not

  • quote · shakespeare

    Double Business

  • python · macos

    Photo Consolidation

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    Grief

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    Check Azure Resources

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    Community

  • ci · git · github

    Trigger Github Workflow

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    Doubts

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    Murmuration

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    Microbit Mesh Network

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    Power

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    Tiny C Tokenizer

  • presentations · agile

    Fun for Now

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    Vibe Refactor

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    Leash

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    Machinery

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    Hustle Culture

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    Redacted

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    Brick

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    Download from RSS

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    Past Present and Future

  • quote · architecture

    Optimism

  • video · presentations

    In Praise of Ordinary People

  • microbit

    Hourglass

  • microbit · spooky

    Ghost Detector 3

  • microbit · code

    Tiny Turtle

  • microbit · python

    Microbit Spying

  • code · python

    Create a Service Now Incident

  • quote

    Sky

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    Creative History

  • architecture · presentations

    Residuality Theory

  • quote

    The Laughing Heart

  • microbit · code

    Simple Simon Game

  • quote

    The Only Things

  • quote

    Wilhoit's Law

  • microbit · javascript

    Microbit Canvas

  • tdd · code · python

    Mini Lisp

  • presentations · agile

    Failure to Communicate

  • code · python

    Finding Duplicates

  • presentations · python

    Decorators

  • microbit · python

    Blinking Again

  • microbit · python

    Microbit Id

  • meta · python

    Detecting Similarity

  • video · gtd

    Getting In Control

  • quote

    Writing

  • video · tdd · debugging

    The Saff Squeeze

  • quote

    Living

  • midi · python

    Mido Test Generator

  • microbit · python

    Screenshot

  • video · architecture

    Untangling Consequences

  • video · architecture

    Patterns in Architecture

  • microbit · python

    Beeps and Boops

  • microbit · python

    Improved Music

  • quote

    Challenge

  • microbit · 11ty

    Microbit Svg Test

  • quote

    Chimneys

  • microbit · python

    LED Sync

  • microbit · python · music

    Learning By Ear

  • quote

    Vilify

  • microbit · python

    Microbit Shyness

  • video

    Making Badass Developers

  • quote

    Slow Motion

  • microbit · music · spooky

    Haunted Music Box

  • microbit · music

    Music Box

  • microbit · python · spooky

    Microbit Skinner Box

  • microbit · python · music

    Microbit Composition Support

  • quote · agile

    Features Have No Value

  • quote

    Orders

  • microbit · python · music

    Twelve Tone Tunes

  • microbit · python · tdd

    Turing Machine 3

  • microbit · python · tdd

    Turing Machine 2

  • microbit · python · tdd

    Turing Machine 1

  • quote

    Demand

  • quote

    Put the puppy back on the paper

  • build · ci

    Failing and Dependency

  • quote

    To Tend The Earth

  • quote

    Big Dogs

  • processing · code

    Animated Bubbles

  • microbit · python

    Microbit Haiku Generator

  • code · python

    Markov Speech

  • tdd · code · python

    If At First You Don't Fail

  • python

    Keep Alive

  • quote

    To Be Taught

  • quote

    Efficiency

  • quote

    Perfect Caring

  • microbit · python

    Microbit Markov Text Generator

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    Treating Objects Like People

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    How to Talk to Developers

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    Hexagonal Rails

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    How Sky Do Agile

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    How To Make A Sandwich

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    Jacob Kaplan-Moss Keynote

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    Solving the Rubik's Cube in 20 Seconds

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    Becoming A Social Developer

  • presentations · dddnorth

    DDD North 2025

  • cypress · javascript · code

    Using Cypress for BDD

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    Nothing Is Something

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    It Always Takes Longer

  • quote

    Everyday Badness

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    Puritanical Future Computing

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    Amplify Learning

  • presentations · sketchnotes

    Memory Fun 101

  • quote

    Unplugged

  • video

    Twelve Truths

  • agile · sketchnotes · tdd

    Make It Fail

  • quote · debugging

    Software Development

  • tdd · code · microbit · python

    Simple Microbit Testing

  • quote · debugging

    Debugging

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit Bird Song2

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit Bee Game

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit Choir

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit 7 Segment Display

  • microbit · python · spooky

    Microbit Spirit Box

  • signs

    Agile Expert

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit Snowglobe

  • code · javascript · 11ty

    Rocking 11ty v3

  • quote

    Great Love

  • quote

    Two Terrors

  • quote

    One Upright Man

  • quote

    Everyday

  • code · microbit · python

    Singing the Portal Theme

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit Bird Song

  • code · microbit · cpp

    Microbit Hearts Animation

  • quote · poetry

    We Are Carried

  • quote

    Love

  • quote

    Co-optive Power

  • quote

    The Press

  • quote

    Solidarity

  • quote

    Despair

  • code · processing · python

    Defrag Part 2

  • code · processing · python

    Defrag Part 1

  • code · deliberate-practice · tdd · python

    Password Scoring Kata

  • microbit · python

    Captain Laserbeam

  • quote · software · code

    Deteriorating Structure

  • code · microbit · cpp

    Microbit Eddystone Beacon

  • code · tdd · csharp

    Roman Numerals Kata

  • code · processing · python

    Fake Mountains

  • code · processing · python

    Emergent Lettering

  • code · processing · python

    Tumbling Arrows

  • code · microbit

    Custom Microbit Modules

  • git · github · presentations

    Git Happens

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit Metronome

  • quote · poetry

    When You Go

  • video

    Uncoupling

  • quote

    Technical Debt

  • quote

    Gigantic Undertaking

  • code · processing · python

    Noisy Grids

  • illustration · sketchnotes

    New Favourite Notebooks

  • signs

    Paw Paw

  • code · microbit · python

    Gently Glowing

  • code · microbit · python

    Make A Jazz Noise Here

  • xp · quote

    Simple Design

  • code · processing · python

    Handling Processing Errors

  • quote · poetry

    Happy and Free

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit Sound Meter

  • quote

    Nothing is Yours

  • video

    Grand Unified Theory

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit Super Computer

  • quote

    A Little Advice for Life

  • csharp · javascript · code

    You Cant Read This

  • quote

    Never Admire Quietly

  • quote

    Optimism of Uncertainty

  • quote

    Think of Yourself

  • quote

    Real Democracy

  • csharp · code

    Running CSharp code from PowerShell

  • signs

    GetProductTranslation

  • quote

    Don't Be in a Hurry

  • code · processing · python

    Tiny City Layout

  • quote

    My Friend Maud

  • video · presentations

    Unreasonable Architecture

  • quote

    Cohesion

  • quote

    Feed the Children

  • cypress · javascript · code

    Create Environment Variables in Cypress

  • cypress · javascript · code

    Approval Testing in Cypress

  • cypress · javascript · code

    Better Date Handling in Cypress

  • cypress · javascript · code

    Api Testing in Cypress

  • powershell · code

    How to get file and folder ACL rights with PowerShell

  • powershell · code

    How to find the most recent folder with PowerShell

  • code · javascript · presentations

    Testing at Both Ends of the Triangle

  • code · python

    Generate mp3 Playlists

  • code · javascript · 11ty

    Add Auto-generated Search to 11ty

  • code · javascript · 11ty

    Adding a linter to 11ty

  • video · presentations

    Critical Program Reading

  • presentations · dddnorth

    DDD North 2022

  • video · presentations

    Stop Writing Dead Programs

  • microbit · spooky

    Improved Ghost Detector

  • code · microbit

    Micro Pomodoro

  • sketchnotes

    Secret Sketchnoter 2

  • sketchnotes

    Secret Sketchnoter

  • tdd

    Testing All The Things

  • powershell · code

    How to find AD group membership with PowerShell

  • quote

    Subtle and Deadly

  • code · python · processing

    Simple Thumbnail Generator

  • code · books · pragprog

    Numerical Brain Teasers

  • code · csharp

    HttpClient with Windows Auth

  • quote

    A Person Ignorant

  • quote

    Curse the Darkness

  • video · presentations

    The Beauty of Maintenance

  • music

    Zen Stone Dead

  • powershell · code

    Read TargetFramework of Assembly in PowerShell

  • code · javascript · 11ty

    Linting Markdown

  • code · javascript · 11ty

    11ty Picture Shortcode

  • code · javascript · 11ty

    11ty Paired Shortcode with Markup

  • code · javascript · 11ty

    11ty Year Shortcode

  • code · microbit · python

    Microbit Binary Clock

  • code · microbit · python

    Binary Clock

  • code · javascript · 11ty

    Turning It Up to 11ty

  • video · presentations

    Feynmans Computer Heuristics

  • video · presentations

    Technical Agile Coaching With the Samman Method

  • quote

    Spectacular Life

  • quote

    Limits of Tyrants

  • video · presentations

    Beyond Transactions in Code and Life

  • quote · agile · xp

    Predictability

  • quote

    Monsters of Abstractions

  • quote

    Hidden Truth

  • powershell · code

    Check File Content with PowerShell

  • powershell · code

    Batch Renaming File Extensions

  • video · presentations

    Learn Code Smells And Level Up Your Game

  • video · presentations

    A Philosophy of Software Design

  • code · processing · python

    Processing Shapes and Colours

  • sketchnotes · illustration · stationery

    Sketchnote Ideabook

  • powershell · code

    KeyVault Secrets with PowerShell

  • xp · gtd · presentations · sketchnotes

    Some Underrated Elements of Success for the Modern Programmer

  • code · processing · python

    Perlin Noise Flower

  • code · processing · python

    How to Paint the Mona Lisa

  • code · processing · python

    Christmas Fireflies

  • code · processing · python

    Simple Generative Art

  • powershell · code

    Getting the right Selenium driver

  • agile · xp

    UNICORN

  • video · presentations

    Not Magic

  • powershell

    Purge a Soft-deleted Azure Key Vault

  • sketchnotes · presentations

    Catalytic Skills for Developers

  • powershell

    Debugging Terraform

  • powershell

    AutoIt Extensions

  • sketchnotes · presentations

    Testing the Code Does What the Code Does

  • xp

    Documenting Software with C4

  • powershell

    Find a User SID in PowerShell

  • video · presentations

    Stop Obsessing About Primitives

  • powershell

    Zipping and Unzipping in PowerShell

  • sketchnotes

    Sketchnoting for Science

  • video · presentations

    Declarative Thinking Declarative Practice

  • powershell

    Custom Module for PowerShell DSC

  • code · microbit · music

    Silent Night for the Microbit

  • quote

    Improving the Dancing

  • code · processing

    Random City Skyline

  • video · presentations

    Move Slow and Mend Things

  • quote

    Iterative Design Process

  • code · microbit · music

    Transcribing Sheet Music for the Microbit

  • code · microbit · music

    Microbit Musicians

  • sketchnotes

    Hand Binding a Sketchbook

  • powershell

    Iterating on Developing a PowerShell Module

  • quote

    Never Done Before

  • quote

    Four Purposes of Improvement

  • quote

    Power

  • quote

    Too Smart for Programming

  • video · presentations

    Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones

  • oo

    Object Oriented Resources

  • quote

    Compound Interest

  • quote

    The Same Person

  • quote

    Discover

  • video · presentations

    Continuous Delivery In Agile

  • tdd · sketchnotes · xp

    When Does TDD Fail and Why

  • video · presentations

    Study Less, Study Smart

  • code · scratch

    T-Rex Runner Game in Scratch

  • quote

    Code That Works

  • sketchnotes

    What do developers do all day?

  • code · scratch

    Cat and Mouse Game in Scratch

  • code

    Alternative Programming Languages

  • sketchnotes

    The Four Elements of Simple Design

  • code

    Dr Dobbs Journal

  • xp · presentations · solid

    no SOLID evidence

  • code · playground

    Circuit Playground Express Comet

  • code · playground

    Circuit Playground Express Moods

  • video · presentations

    Never Write Another HoC

  • quote

    Simplicity

  • powershell

    Remove Temporary ASP.Net Files in PowerShell

  • quote

    Make Great Software Inevitable

  • quote

    Disagreement

  • code · scratch

    Dino Quiz in Scratch

  • video · presentations

    One Secret to Quality Software

  • code · microbit

    Microbit LED blinkenlights

  • quote

    Prisons

  • video · presentations

    Taming Forms in React

  • sketchnotes

    Lets make a Tiny Zine

  • quote

    Stop Trying to Borrow Wisdom

  • code · microbit

    Final, Final, Microbit RC

  • quote · xp

    Effective Debugging

  • code · microbit

    Game of Life 2

  • video · presentations

    React Cookbook Advanced Recipes

  • code · microbit

    New, Improved, Microbit RC

  • sketchnotes · presentations

    Building High Performance React Applications

  • video · presentations

    Building High Performance React Applications

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Sunshine Detector

  • quote · gtd

    When they jump you...

  • code · books · pragprog

    A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms 2nd Edition

  • code · processing

    Flying Toasters

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Timer

  • video · presentations

    Evolving a Clean, Pragmatic Architecture

  • code · xp

    The Invention of Pairing

  • code · xp

    All the Programming Languages

  • quote · xp

    Rudy's Rutabaga Rule

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Twinkly Lights

  • video · presentations

    More Testable Code with the Hexagonal Architecture

  • agile · xp

    Approval Testing

  • video · presentations

    This Code Sucks

  • quote · xp

    A Game of Insight

  • code

    Getting Back to Rust

  • sketchnotes

    Mob Programming Evolution

  • code · processing

    Game of Oligarchy Part 3

  • code · processing

    Game of Oligarchy Part 2

  • video · presentations

    Test Driven Development - A Love Story

  • code · microbit

    Refactoring Nested For Loops to List Comprehensions

  • books

    Normal by Warren Ellis

  • code · processing

    Game of Oligarchy

  • quote

    Dont Fight Stupid

  • books · illustration

    Black Sheep Notebook

  • sketchnotes · presentations

    Fail better with QA in production

  • video · presentations

    Implementing the Clean Architecture in .NET Core

  • video · presentations

    Fail better with QA in Production

  • signs

    The First Revolution

  • quote

    Our Greatest Asset

  • code · books

    The Nature of Code

  • powershell · code

    Querying Azure Log Analytics with PowerShell

  • csharp · code · tdd

    Refactoring Away from Static Constructors

  • msbuild · code · tfs

    Tagging TFS builds from MSBuild

  • quote · lean

    Commitment

  • quote

    Design for the Next Larger Context

  • csharp · code · tdd

    Lazy Creating Expensive Objects

  • agile · xp

    The Elements of Style

  • csharp · code · tdd

    Knapsack Packing

  • video · presentations

    Confident Code

  • signs

    Wiring Diagrams

  • csharp · code · tdd

    Mini Approval Testing

  • quote · lean

    Eliminate Slogans

  • quote

    To Show our Friendship

  • signs

    How Computers Work

  • video · presentations

    How to Steal an Election

  • csharp · code · tdd

    Slowing Down Test Execution in Selenium

  • code · microbit

    Psychic Microbit Night Light

  • processing · code

    Refactoring Boids

  • code · processing

    Processing with Python

  • signs

    Respect the Land Yo

  • code · minecraft

    Minecraft Building Miscellanea

  • code · microbit

    Pythonic Idioms

  • code · microbit

    Autonomous Microbit Vehicle

  • sketchnotes · presentations

    Sustainable, Lasting, Authentic Change

  • signs

    Westminster Works

  • code · microbit

    Microbit with NeoPixels

  • code · minecraft

    Minecraft Building from Script

  • code

    Playing Cards with Snakes

  • video · presentations

    What do you mean

  • video · presentations

    Ill Let Myself In

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Infection

  • sketchnotes · presentations

    Practical Tips for Playing Well with Others

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Beacons

  • code · deliberate-practice · tdd

    Balanced Parentheses Kata

  • video · presentations

    How to talk to Developers

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Turtles

  • microbit

    Debugging Microbit Sensors

  • quote

    Test Confidence

  • video · presentations

    Interview with Ken Thompson

  • powershell

    Using Pester for API Testing

  • video · presentations

    Life as a Developer

  • code · microbit

    Remote Control Microbit

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Racing

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Motoring

  • code · microbit

    Microbotchi

  • video · presentations

    Logging, Instrumentation, Dashboards, Alerts

  • code · deliberate-practice · tdd

    100 Doors Kata

  • code · microbit

    Tiny Tetris for Microbit

  • video · presentations

    Domain-Driven Design for the Database Driven Mind

  • quote

    Make It Beautiful

  • video · presentations

    Joe and Alan

  • video · presentations

    Reliability Engineering for Humans

  • quote · agile

    Plans

  • xp · agile

    Druckers Rules for Productivity

  • quote

    Fairies

  • sketchnotes · presentations

    Taking Back Software Engineering

  • quote

    The Essence of Agility

  • quote

    The Cost of Change

  • quote

    Computing in Pairs

  • quote

    Neutrality

  • video · presentations

    Instantly Better Presentations

  • sketchnotes · presentations · xp

    Kanban Push Me Pull You

  • quote

    There are More Things

  • quote

    The Purpose of Life

  • quote

    Do Better

  • code · books · pragprog

    Programming Crystal

  • quote

    Excited by Automation

  • powershell

    Enable Assembly Binding Logging without FusLogVw

  • powershell

    Configuring IIS in PowerShell

  • powershell

    Create a Scheduled Task in PowerShell

  • sketchnotes · presentations · xp

    Confessions of a Tech Lead

  • video · presentations

    Building the Peoples Internet

  • quote

    Sometimes People

  • presentations · xp · dddnorth

    DDD North 2019

  • powershell

    Validating File Hashes in PowerShell

  • powershell

    Text Entry in AutoIt

  • signs

    Shunting Bell

  • video · presentations

    Supply Chain Hacking with Bunnie Huang

  • csharp · code

    Building a Chat Bot

  • quote

    First Days of a Better Nation

  • sketchnotes · presentations · tdd · xp

    Agile Testing Mindset

  • powershell

    Posting Messages to MS Teams with PowerShell

  • presentations · dddnorth

    DDD North 2019

  • powershell

    Robocopy instead of Copy-Item

  • powershell

    PSake Turtles All The Way Down

  • powershell

    GUI Automation in PowerShell using AutoIt

  • video · presentations

    The Future of Programming

  • video · presentations

    Grand Reopening Of The Public Domain

  • video · presentations · optimism · engineering

    Cory Doctorow at Google

  • code · pi

    Build Monitor on Raspberry Pi

  • video · presentations

    The History of Opera and the Future of Programming

  • sketchnotes · xp

    User Story Strategies

  • powershell

    Tidying Pester API Code

  • sketchnotes · xp

    XP User Stories

  • video · presentations

    A History of Bias and Oppression in Computing

  • quote

    Look for the Helpers

  • quote

    Computer Witchcraft

  • powershell

    Test Driving PowerShell with Pester

  • code

    Occasionally...

  • code

    Tracing Failed IIS Requests

  • video · presentations

    Metaphors We Compute By

  • sketchnotes · presentations · agile · tdd · xp

    Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code

  • code

    ngrok

  • quote

    Chestertons Fence

  • agile · quote

    Be Where Your Feet Are

  • agile · quote

    Unix Philosophy

  • agile · quote

    More Unix Philosophy

  • quote

    Every Pirate

  • sketchnotes · presentations · tdd · xp

    Polly Want a Message

  • agile · quote

    Every day, somebody

  • agile · quote

    Fear Destroys Teamwork

  • powershell

    Linting in PowerShell

  • powershell

    Configuration Files in PowerShell

  • code · microbit · spooky

    Microbit Ghost Detector

  • powershell

    Grepping in PowerShell

  • agile · quote

    Joy in Learning

  • powershell

    PSake Cheatsheet

  • quote

    The System

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Dinosaur Detector

  • code

    NUnit Test Actions for Great Good

  • code

    Generating Notepaper with PdfSharp

  • illustration · sketchnotes

    Dont Say Resources When You Mean People

  • illustration · sketchnotes

    How to Draw Faces

  • powershell

    Naive GUI Automation in PowerShell

  • msbuild · code

    Pre- and Post- Build Differences in MSBuild

  • msbuild · code

    Lightweight Build Order Logging in MSBuild

  • code

    Tiny Lisp Implementations

  • code

    Project Euler

  • powershell

    Passing Parameters to a Pester Test

  • powershell

    Remote Controlling Windows Services in PowerShell

  • code · refactoring

    Refactoring Away from Static Code

  • microbit · code

    Spoofing Nokia mobile on the Microbit

  • agile · presentations

    Strangling Legacy Code

  • minecraft · code

    Minecraft PortKey

  • minecraft · code

    Minecraft Forestry

  • agile · code · signs

    Slow Down, Red Squirrels

  • quote

    My New Favourite Figure of Speech

  • signs

    Lambs Oot

  • agile · quote

    Good Employees

  • code · agile

    Perfecting Code Reviews

  • quote

    A Bicycle for the Mind

  • sketchnotes

    Building a sketchbook

  • agile · quote

    Galls Law

  • sketchnotes · illustration · xp

    XP - Extreme Portraiture

  • sketchnotes

    Lettering Kata

  • code

    Visual Studio Code Snippets FTW

  • minecraft · code

    Minecraft's Greatest Hits

  • code · minecraft

    Minecraft Detectorists

  • code · minecraft

    It's Raining Blocks

  • agile · quote

    Nothing Quite So Useless

  • powershell

    Validating Xml in PowerShell

  • code · microbit

    Microbit coin flipper

  • sketchnotes

    Strong Style Pairing

  • quote · code

    Everything has already been said...

  • quote · code

    Alan Kay and OOP

  • quote · code

    Tell people why

  • sketchnotes

    Palomino Blackwing

  • code · microbit

    Portal Theme on Microbit

  • code · books

    Elementary Programming and Algol

  • agile · quote

    Destroy the Enterprise

  • agile · quote

    The Best Plan for a System

  • agile · quote

    Reducing Non-Value Adding Waste

  • sketchnotes · presentations · agile

    There's No 'I' in Agile

  • code · minecraft · spooky

    Simulating Minecraft Creeper on Pi

  • code · minecraft

    Minecraft Pi for Millionaires

  • code

    FizzBuzz in Elixir

  • agile · sketchnotes

    Agile in 5 Words

  • quote

    Software is not a Craft

  • agile · code · signs

    Slow Down

  • agile · quote

    Always a People Problem

  • agile · sketchnotes

    Embrace Your Mistakes

  • sketchnotes · presentations · agile · tdd · xp

    7 minutes, 26 seconds

  • agile · sketchnotes

    Agile Maxim No.1

  • agile · code

    Klang's Conjecture

  • code · microbit

    Microbit Mentalism

  • quote · agile

    Nothing is more dangerous

  • agile · signs

    Safety First

  • code · microbit

    Langton's Ant

  • agile · quote

    Conway's Law

  • agile · signs

    How to Work Better

  • quote

    Tolerance

  • illustration

    Campus North Murals

  • agile · quote

    Products Not Projects

  • quote

    Do Your Best

  • quote

    Hostile to Liberty

  • agile · quote

    Making American Toast

  • agile · signs

    Rules of Engagement

  • code · microbit

    microbit Paparazzi Simulator

  • agile · cynefin

    Estimating Complexity

  • quote

    Programming is Understanding

  • msbuild · code

    On-the-fly MsBuild Task Template

  • agile · signs

    Proof of Time Travel

  • agile · quote

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    Aneurin Bevan

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  • quote

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    Newspapers

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    Jason Read

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    How to Crash an Airplane

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    Microbit Empathy

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    Microbit Emotion

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    Art for a Few

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    Brilliant People Management with Agile

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    Microbit Sorting Hat

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    Creating Builds in TFS 2015

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    There is no Cloud

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    Building a Custom PowerShell Cmdlet in C#

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    PowerShell Fortune Cookie

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    People Work Within the System

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    Having the Right Kind of Argument(s)

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    Individual Heroics

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    Hello, Minecraft

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    SQL Test Data as Code

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    Microbit Life

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    The Case of the Disappearing Github Pages

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    Ebook of Sketchnotes from DDDNorth 2015 now available!

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    Sketchnotes from DDDNorth 2015

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    Sketchnoting at DDDNorth 2015

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    Prime Directive

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    Reveal.js Cheatsheet

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    Honesty

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    Running an Azure Cloud Service without an Emulator

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    Final sketchnote from DDDNorth 2014

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    Sketchnote 2 from DDDNorth 2014

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    Sketchnote from DDDNorth 2014

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    I am in the Sketchnote Workbook!

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    MsBuild Task Project on Github

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    Windows Installers for the Lazy

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    The Problem is Your Ruby

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    Generating File Content in the Build

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    Building NDifference in the Cloud

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    But Really You Should Learn Smalltalk

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    Methinks it is like a Weasel

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    Alex Harms on Pair Programming

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    Perils of the Anti-Agile Mindset

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    How to Learn Anything

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    Nobody will Train You but You

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    Html Link Validation

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    OrderByDescending

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    Self Hosted WebServer using OWIN

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    All the Little Things Sketchnote

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    All the Little Things

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    Text Diamond Kata

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    Go Ahead Make a Mess

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    String Calculator Kata

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    Names Are Hard

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    Bootstrapping Jekyll Tag Generation

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    Cleaning MsBuild ItemGroup Includes

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    My Sketchnoting Workflow for Presentations

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    Code Kata Resources

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    Kill All Your Managers

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    Using NDesk.Options for Command Line Parsing

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    Zipping Folder Contents Using MsBuild

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    TDD Steps

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    The Magic Tricks of Testing

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    Using Environment Variables in MsBuild Scripts

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    MsBuild Recursive Import Snippet

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    My Coding Dojo Checklist

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    Steve Freeman on TDD

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    My First Ruby Unit Test

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    Programming by Contract in MsBuild

  • ruby · books

    Learning to Program, Again

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    MsBuild Target Order

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    Transparently Extending the MsBuild Process

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    Creating Jekyll Posts

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    Murdering Folders. In Ruby

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    Decompiling .Net Assemblies

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    Stop Using Development Mode

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    I am Designer and So Can You!

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    Why Aren't You Using Ruby

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    The Dream Team Nightmare by Portia Tung

  • open-source

    Moving to Github

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    Team Working Agreements

  • agile

    Team Definitions of Done

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    Recursive Copy in MsBuild

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    Timestamps in MsBuild

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    Tell Don't Ask

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    What the World Needs Now is Another IoC project

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    Running MsBuild on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

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    Most Recent Folder MsBuild Task

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    ITaskItem Extension Methods

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    Simple Batch Html Validation

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    Custom MsBuild Task Template

  • tdd · code · csharp

    XUnit Traits and Categories

  • agile

    Planning Poker Card Design

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    Using NAudio to generate midi

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    Midi Value Reference

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    Excellent Foppery

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    Moment of Clarity 17

  • quote

    Man's Original Virtue

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    Begin Taking Action

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    David Allen at Google

  • quote

    Parameterize from Above

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    Charles Chilton Moore

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    Emily Remler

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    Merlin Mann at Webstock 2011

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    Bugs and Exploits in Your Brain

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    JoCo covers TMBG

  • quote

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